Best tips for planting and growing lilacs in your flower garden.
For beautiful spring flowers with fragrance nothing beats the old fashioned lilac. Here are some tips on how to grow lilacs like your grandmother did. Lilacs grow best in parts of the country that experience a winter freeze. In areas where it doesn’t freeze they may fail to bloom. Check for varieties specially bred…
Read More Tips for Growing LilacsHarvesting Herbs Harvest in the morning of a hot and dry day–wait until the dew is off the plants. Snip off the top growth–about 6 inches of stem below the flower buds. Drying Herbs If the leaves are clean, don’t wash them–oils are lost in the washing process. If they are dusty, wash briefly under…
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How to grow cucumbers in your garden.
The versatile cucumber (cucumis sativus) is tasty pickled, in a salad, as a salad, in a sandwich, or just eaten raw. How to grow cucumbers depends largely in part on how you plan to eat them. Cucumbers come in over 120 varieties that range from small picklers to large slicers and from dark green to…
Read More How to Grow CucumbersGrowing a rose bush is no doubt fun, and there are many who have tried their hand at it. Of course there are just as many who say that roses are the hardest type of flower to grow, and as such many will stray away from them. Growing miniature roses is even more fun, and…
Read More The Secret to Growing Miniature RosesZinnias are a beautiful, easy to grow annual. They come in many different colors: red, yellow, orange, purple, white, and green. They also grow to different heights. The dwarf or miniature ones can be as short as six inches, while the tallest ones can grow up to five feet tall. With their long stems they…
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