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Master Gardeners: Is it luffa or loofah? | Home And Garden
Editor’s notice: Luffa vegetation will be sold at the VCMGA Spring Plant Sale on April 2. Last September at Rockport’s Hummingbird Celebration, my close friend Janet pointed to a substantial vine with very long cucumber-shaped gourds. She mentioned they are luffas and our learn gardener colleague Noreen was growing them. Noreen claimed she purchased a packet of luffa seeds as an experiment. She planted 4 seeds previous February just after the previous frost and didn’t see green shoots right up until late June. Noreen planted the seeds in raised backyard garden beds from 8-foot PVC pipes. To secure the plants from squirrels, she protected them with fowl netting. Her yield…
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Master Gardeners: Carolina jessamine | Home And Garden
Below in Texas, it is essential to know why indigenous vegetation play these a valuable function in our landscapes. As our inhabitants grows, land is created for housing, subdivisions, roadways and buying facilities. We see and truly feel the worth of drinking water and weather with these developments. We are not the only ones who are impacted by environmental modifications. Wildlife are pushed to unique places and their foodstuff sources and habitats are ruined. The standard garden has a garden, shrubs and flowers that often require drinking water and from time to time fertilizer and insecticide. These chemical compounds can runoff into drinking water wells and poison our atmosphere and…
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YARD AND GARDEN: Get ready for spring with Master Gardeners | Home & Garden
Join Master Gardeners for a fun morning of door prizes and engaging speakers both beginning and expert gardeners will enjoy. The new year seems to be going by fast and I realized this week that the 12th annual Spring into Gardening Conference is just around the corner. The University of Illinois Extension Master Gardeners of Coles, Cumberland, Douglas, Moultrie, and Shelby Counties will present this conference from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, March 5, at Broadway Christian Church, 1205 S. Ninth St., in Mattoon. The doors will open at 8 a.m. for check-in. The cost for the workshop is $30 per person. YARD AND GARDEN: A gardening project for…
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Master Gardeners: Going from lazy to seed | Home And Garden
Over the years, I became lazy and acquired most of my vegetation in pots and packs from large-box suppliers and nurseries. Since of a very noticeable raise in price ranges, I am slowly and gradually drifting toward starting up my crops from seed. Whilst this procedure does demand far more time and energy, I have been really joyful with the benefits. Looking at the seedlings come up and grow into maturity is really gratifying. The additional bonus is I have additional zinnias, much more hollyhocks and more herbs than when I was acquiring transplants. And we all know extra is superior. Think about developing with seeds If you’ve by no…
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IN THE YARD: What can gardeners do in January? | Home & Garden
STUART SUTPHIN Contributing columnist The temperature we have experienced for the past two weeks has designed it tricky to go outside and do everything in the back garden. It is just as well considering that there genuinely is not significantly we can do with our crops in any case. So what do we do to get rid of time until finally we can get back again out there and get some soil beneath our fingernails? I read or read through a statement recently that would seem acceptable: “Gardeners can shell out this time dreaming and preparing.” This can be time very well put in or at least time spent on…
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Master Gardeners: Flowers for a winter garden | Home and Garden
YVONNE RASMUSSEN UC Master Gardener of Napa County What flowers in the dead of winter in Napa County? With few pollinators active then, it’s not a great time to have flowers that need pollination. Also, the weather is dicey. It could be cold or icy or raining and blowing. But surprisingly, many plants do bloom between late fall and very early spring. So with a little planning. you can have flowers in your winter garden and fresh-cut flowers to bring indoors. Camellias, cyclamen, primroses and pansies are all blooming in nurseries now. But don’t be fooled. Some of these plants have been forced into bloom using light or greenhouse conditions.…
