Seeds, Bees, and Pollen

Bloom Magazine UK

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A Gardener’s Essential A–z

Sep 6, 2020

PART THREE To transplant a plant grown in a pot or seed tray into another pot, usually one or two sizes larger. This may take place several times until a plant is large enough to plant outdoors, or into a container, to reach maturity. Potting on shou

Adirondack Explorer

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On The Wild Side

Mar 1, 2023

Early in my evolution as a naturalist, the illogic of putting wildflowers and trees in separate field guides dawned on me. Unlikely as it may seem, this botanical epiphany led to love, marriage and children. Here’s how it happened. One evening a good

Amateur Gardening

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Peat-free Compost Trials 2023

Sep 5, 2023

THIS is the third year we have conducted these peat-free compost trials and we must stress that they are done on a comparative, rather than scientific, basis. The plants selected were all geranium (pelargonium) ‘Dark Red’ peat-free mini plugs, pricke

Amateur Gardening

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Important Tasks To Sort Now

Apr 25, 2023

MID-SPRING is such a time of promise that the temptation is to spend every spare hour out in the garden. There is so much to do, be it planting and propagating, sowing seeds, potting seedlings, that it’s hard to know where to start. In the excitement

Futurity

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Katydids And Their Kin Can Also Pollinate Flowers

Aug 23, 2018

Insects like grasshoppers and crickets may play a role in pollination, new research finds. We tend to think of these critters, called orthopterans, as agricultural pests, but their tropical relatives provide a valuable service to plants by serving as

Amateur Gardening

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Peat-free Compost Trial Results

Aug 23, 2022

Score 11/15 This dark-looking compost had the majority of the roots found in the lower half of the external rootball, also with less volume of root even in this limited area. Opening the rootball, it was noticeable that there was a much more even dis

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Lessons From Plants

Dec 3, 2018

My dream home has rocks, wood, plants, water and glass – the garden is part of the house and vice versa. Instead of a lawn, it has an indigenous ground cover or an organic mulch like gravel. This garden is friendly to birds, reptiles, frogs and fish,