Just Wild About WildFlowers and Information and Resources about Them!!!
By Dr. Leonard Perry, Extension Professor University of Vermont
As your landscape matures, things change. Trees get taller and shade out areas. Bushes outgrow their space in the garden. Or it may be that your lifestyle has changed, and you no longer need to devote space to a children’s play area or swing set. Whatever [...]
Most people enjoy planting into what garden publications call a well-prepared, loose seedbed. [...]
What is Compost?Compost is a dark, crumbly mixture of decomposed organic matter, such as grass clippings, leaves, twigs, and branches.
How Does Composting Work?
Even the first-time composter can make good quality compost. Like good cooking, composting is part science, part art. Attention to the following parameters will help you get started.
Materials
Anything that was [...]
By Gene DeFazzio
Moon Phases and Planting
Planting by the phases of the moon is a method of cultivation
as old as agriculture and civilization. Based both in tradition
and superstition, the character and growth traits of plants were
seen to vary with the phases of the moon. Through the corridors
of time this rhythm of growth was recorded and passed [...]
Vegetables
Aphid numbers are still high now on a wide variety of landscape and garden plants. It is usually not necessary to spray insecticides or release beneficials to control aphids. Populations of lady bird beetle, green lacewings and wasp parasites build up quickly to keep aphids in check. You’ll see these predators and parasites [...]
For those of us that like to save money and the environment, you can use toilet paper tubes, to start seedlings for your spring planting. Take the tube, cut it in half (lengthwise), fill each half with good quality soil, I only place 1 or 2 seedlings per tube. Take 1 tea bag, [...]
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