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What is the best method for trellising green beans?
I have 6 rows of green beans that have now grown to about 12" in height and I want to give them something to climb.
What is the best method of trellising them?
I was thinking about grabbing some more bamboo stakes (Already use them for tomatoes)…
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Do chemicals leach from the sides of raised beds?
Around a year ago I went to a local hardware store to buy some treated pine logs to make a raised garden bed. The guy at the store asked if I was using it for a vegetable bed and he explained that chemicals from the treated pine would leach into the…
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Wormery failure in mass worm die-off ... any advice?
Last fall our household of two people invested in a small, 3-tiered, commercially-available wormery that came with all components (bedding, lime, worms). All seemed to be going well until we brought it inside to protect it from sub-zero (C) winter…
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Does anyone know of a somewhat comprehensive plant database available online?
As a gardener I've found that doing some paperwork while gardening really assists in keeping things organized and on schedule. It occured to me the other day as I stopped to check my beeping phone that it'd be REALLY handy to have a software…
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What is a good method for rapidly cloning White Pumpkin plants?
I have six particular 40-day-old white pumpkin plants. I need to multiply these particular plants as rapidly as possible -- It's at least another month or two before I can extract viable seeds.
Am I better off utilizing the bury-the-vine method? I…
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Do vegetable seeds have a shelf life?
I bought vegetable seeds a few years back. I tried planting them this year but am having mixed results (very few are sprouting). Do seeds have a shelf life/expiration after which they will not germinate? I am trying to figure out if the problem…
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What is in seed starting soil that justifies wearing gloves while handling?
I was adding miracle-gro seed starting soil to paper pots with my daughter a few months ago and was a little leery about letting her touch the stuff (let alone breathe it in).
What's in it that is dangerous? Do you need rubber gloves or just…
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Why didn't my forsythia cuttings root?
In May, I took some greenwood forsythia cuttings, dipped them in a hormone rooting powder and planted them in rooting mix. The mix was kept moist all year. I had thought they had rooted because they began to grow rapidly and the new shoots hardened…
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What is a good choice for an edible fruit producing plant given a space of 20 ft x 3 ft (ca. 6×1 m)?
There is a patch of lawn between the driveways of my neighbour and I of dimension ~5 ft x 20 ft (ca. 1.5×6 m). I would like to plant edible fruit producing plants in my half of this strip of dirt and not have it creep over into my neighbour’s lawn.…
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How long do amaryllis bulbs live?
I've had an amaryllis bulb in a pot for about 5 years now and the bulb hasn't been doing much for, I reckon, over 6 months. When should I consider getting rid of it? Could it have run its course?
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Family pool on lawn all summer - what can I do to help the grass underneath recover?
Like many families with children we have a large (15 foot) inflatable paddling pool taking up part of the lawn for the entire summer period (roughly May to Oct).
When we pack away the pool, there's naturally some serious damage to the lawn…
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What should I do to a homemade paper pot before planting it?
I got one of these snazzy paper pot makers and made a ton of pots to grow all sorts of stuff. It's pretty cool because, unlike a bedpost, you can press the newspaper you use to make the pot into a little form and it stays that way, just like a real…
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Why isn't my lemon tree growing?
We planted a lemon tree five and a half years ago. Today it's about the exact same size as ever.
I've tried using citrus fertilizer, but to no avail. We've had dry summers and wet summers, but nothing changes. I'm in Melbourne, Australia
What's…
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What are common places to try for alternatives to commercially available seeds?
Australia has a problem in that most garden and building centers where you can buy seed usually only sell one or two brands and there is such limited variety e.g. beans, lettuce, tomato etc. Also, the country being isolated, there are several…
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What procedure should I follow to compost bones, fat, and rotten cooked food?
I have read that composting things like bones and fat should be avoided as it can get smelly and attract pests. However, I expect that there are a lot of nutrients that I am wasting if I threw these things in the garbage (or the city compost).
So,…
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