Gardening - page 32

Goat’s beard, feathery white plumes of the Aruncus dioicus plant

Sagina subulata, the moss-like ground cover that flowers before summer

Sowing indoors, the best way to start seeds inside the house

Tomatoes without diseases

Eggplant growing at last? Proper care leads to great harvests!

An effortless veggie garden

Rhipsalis, a plant that looks like hair

Savory, an herb for even tastier grilling and cooking

Panicum virgatum, switch to switch grass for flower beds and pots!

Phormium, a grass-like clump of color in the garden… or pot… or terrace

Callistemon, the flower may look like a toilet-bowl brush, but it smells so nice!

White willow, a light, breezy willow to line riverbeds and lakes

Phyllostachys, the perfect bamboo for landscaping

King of vegetables? The Tomato, of course!

Beech, a tall, smooth-skinned gigantic shade tree

Imperata cylindrica, a colonizer with blood-red blades… of grass!

Dandelion, more than just a weed

Chayote, a run-around vine that’s edible all around

How to stake tomatoes – cages, twine or poles?

Black krim tomato, a dark-skinned tomato with a rich, meaty flesh

Mason bee, a solitary worker bee that burrows in the ground

Meet the tasty Pineapple tomato, large and round with few pips

Marram beach grass, holding the sand in place

Blue lyme grass, the sand grass that looks like rye

Ice cream tulip, the tulip that makes your mouth water… Double cone, anyone?

Honey locust, a sweet giant – with massive thorns!

Lacinato kale, a swarthy, dark vegetable posing as an ornamental

Caucasian elm, delicate yellow leaves in fall for a hardy-proof winter

Soap from plants? Yes, our grannies were right!

Zebras in the veggie patch??? Yup! green zebra tomato!

Seedless tomato varieties to grow in the vegetable patch

Broadcast sowing – a quick technique for large surfaces and growing beds

Bottlebrush buckeye

Pozzolana, designer mulch

Grand Vert, the basil with large, even tastier leaves

Indigo rose, a tomato variety for small, black cocktail tomatoes

Agapetes, branches arching over to display cute red bells

Treatment against Otiorhynchus larvae

Medicinal angelica, a delicious garden spice

Maiden pink, flower-bearing and fragrant

Bumblebee, bumbling along and heavyweight pollinator

Leucojum vernum, a bulb flower as cute as a spring snowflake

Lawn and grass in fall, the right advice

Avoiding mold on food

Basella, a spinach look-and-taste-alike

Holboellia, advice on caring for this evergreen vine

After the holidays, back to the garden!

Aconite, Jupiter’s helm, like an army of helmsmen on the march!

Tomato early blight, the dreaded Alternaria fungus: alternatives to beat it

Anaphalis, pearly everlasting, a drought-loving plant that blooms without water

Aphids and ants on hibiscus killing off flower buds