All Blog Posts Tagged 'gardening' (8)

There are two types of red raspberries: summer-bearing and fall-bearing. Summer-bearing raspberries produce crop…

 

Out of many ferns I have grown over the years, my favorite is Hare’s Foot (Davallia sp.). It has lacy fronds and fascinating hairy rhizomes (“hare’s feet”) that eventually creep over of the edge of the pot. Despite its delicate appearance, this fern is very easy to grow indoors; it survives remarkably well dry air…

 

In a store, as I walk between shelves filled with different plants, tiny containers with Venus Fly Traps (Dionea muscipula) catch my eyes. They are fascinating carnivorous plants.

Carnivorous plants have caught the imagination of many minds including Charles Darwin, who wrote Insectivorous Plants book and had extensive correspondence about them with his close friend and colleague Sir Joseph Hooker, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens.

Carnivorous…

 

Trees and shrubs

Plant or transplant all bare-rooted trees and shrubs. Prune fruit trees, berry bushes, and summer and fall flowering shrubs. Don’t trim spring flowering shrubs until after they bloom. Remove branches damaged by winter cold. Prune grape vines while they are still dormant.

Apply general-purpose fertilizer and mulch around trees and shrubs. Spray dormant oil against insects when the temperature reaches at least 45…  

The temperature is in teens outside, and our gardens will stay dormant for about two more months before starting to awaken with the first warm sunlight. Fortunately, gardening is not confined to just outside, and majority of us probably have a few indoor plants which are happily growing and even blooming this time of the year. One of those plants is the orchid. Not all orchids continue to actively grow during winter; some of them are slowing down a bit, but others are shooting out…

 

Source: Rutgers NJ Agricultural Experimental Station

The following is a list of landscape plants rated according to their resistance to deer damage. The list was compiled with input from nursery and landscape professionals, Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) Cooperative Extension personnel, and Master Gardeners in Northern N.J.

Realizing that no plant is deer proof, plants in the Rarely…

 

Are you all dreaming about going out into the garden and planting new beds and landscape? I sure am. I can't wait. I think about all the new plants that I am going to plant in my garden and where I am going to put new gardens. Oh, what should I get rid of when I am digging up this spring? On the GCNJ website, there is a list of invasives that we shouldn't have on our properties. Here are two of them that I think are pretty but come spring, out they go:



Multiflora Rose is a…  

This is the best recipe for a homemade fungicide or insecticide. To get rid of insects and diseases, stir together the following ingredients:

3 tablespoons baking soda;

2 tablespoons Murphy Oil Soap;

2 tablespoons canola oil;

2 tablespoons white vinegar;

2 gallons warm water.

When it is mixed, put into a sprayer and mist plants until th emixture runs off the ends of the leaves. Be sure to spray this mixture on plants on a cloudy day…