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September In The Northwest Garden Landscape

Throughout the Pacific Northwest and southern Alaska the ordering of spring-blooming bulbs is the first consideration in September gardening. Other garden activities vary in timing according to the climatic sub-division you happen to live in. First killing frosts usually hit Idaho, and eastern Oregon, and Washington in September. Between the Cascades and Coast Range killing […]

Wood Shavings To The Mulch Rescue

Wood shavings and chips save you a lot of work, water, and plants – and they don’t make the soil sour, as we have been told for years. They keep down weeds, retain soil moisture, and because of their size absorb very little rain or artificial watering. They prevent the spattering of mud on flowers, […]

The September Landscape With A Northern View

September is a glorious month in the north. It starts the harvest season and is the perfect vacation time. Warm days and cool evenings make it a good season to work in your garden, which will probably need it if yours is like mine after the summer. Important odds and ends. Check the roof drainage. […]

The September Landscape With A Southern View

Summer heat and drought slowed down gardening in July and August, but September is the beginning of another planting season. Gardens become more colorful, and gardeners enjoy a new burst of ambition. Bulbs – Shipments are arriving and dealers everywhere are offering them for sale. Plant Madonna lilies, baby glads, lycoris, leucojums and calla lilies […]

Indoors or Out You Can Grow Giant Mums

Remarkable things are happening in the world of chrysanthemums? Until recently, the growing of giant chrysanthemums was something only for the expert. Greenhouses were required, or at least frames where the plants could be sheltered from the frosts and shaded with black cloth to bring them into bloom early. Now, with the introduction of early-blooming, […]

Tips And Points for Picking Fruit

Picking fruit at the proper stage of maturity is of vital consideration in orchard operations and the home garden as well. Harvesting when convenient, or when labor is available, cannot be a guide to the proper picking time. All too often fruit of inferior quality, both for storage and for the ultimate consumer, results from […]

Every Garden Can Have Some Fruit Trees

Standard-sized fruit trees are out of the question for many home yards because in time they take up too much space, and their tops cannot be reached with home spraying equipment. But dwarf fruit trees are another story. They are scaled at maturity to suburban properties, and their tallest branches are always within reach of […]

Old Time Favorites Newer African Violets Remembered

If you can grow an African violet successfully without getting the urge to start a collection, you ought to be psychoanalyzed. You’re different!” We normal people. start with one lone saintpaulia, but six months later we have a dozen sturdy plants, which we proudly rooted in water. After a year, the house begins to look […]

September Is Big Greenhouse Month – No End For Flowers Galore

September is a big month for the greenhouse gardener who is economy minded. It offers no end of opportunity for flowers galore from a small investment in seed and bulbs. Time is of the essence, however, since conditions favorable to germination and good growth of young plants have again returned. Temperatures are lower and the […]