Troubleshooting

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Beer, Beans, and Slugs

Due to the rising cost of food I’ve been adding a lot more edibles to my garden this year, and am growing some for the first time, including, bush green beans.
Having never grown green beans before I did not know what to make of damage that was all but killing my young sprouts. The leaves […]

Perennial Lettuce?

It has been so nice getting out and gardening this past week now that weather has finally warmed up. You do not realize how much joy, or the sense of peace, it gives you until you get to flip that switch from being stuck inside to being able to go out.
Anyways, in inspecting my […]

Brewing Compost Tea on the Cheap

“Wow, a picture of a bucket in a garage, nice blog you run Chris.”
In all seriousness, this is my compost tea brewing system. It isn’t pretty, but it only cost me about $15, $5 if you discount things I already had.
Compost tea is a great product. What it is is compost seeped in water […]

Black Spot on My Roses

I’m no stranger to fungal infections on roses, it seems every year in late summer I get powdery mildew, it usually doesn’t cause too big a problem though and does hit all my roses.
This year, I’ve not been so lucky. I had a massive attack of black spot that affected almost every rose bush I […]

Deadhead your Daylilies to Make More Blooms

For me, July is prime daylily month, and July is now over. That means it is deadheading time.
Truth be told I deadhead constantly as I wander around the garden but this post is meant to remind others to do it, not myself.
You see, many popular daylily varieties, possibly ones in your garden right […]

Beware the Chocolate Mulch

It sounds good on paper. Cocoa bean husks used as mulch, get use out of a waste product, smells nice as you walk by. I’ve seen this mentioned on websites and on TV shows. But I have never seen it in a store.
This Spring through I saw a bunch of bags at Meijer […]

Flowers Falling Over

I’ve had a problem with many of my sedum (or is it sedums?) this year in which they fall over. In the picture to the right you’ll notice the stems all lying flat on the ground.
I’ve researched this issue and found it to be farely common with a variety of possible culprits. This […]

Iris Update

As I reported previously my irises hadn’t bloomed for a number of years and were not going dormant during the winter.
So what I did was give them all a haircut to try to simulate dormancy and well, either it worked or the irises finally stored up enough energy because they’re all blooming nicely now.
They are […]

Sick Rhododendron

I went and bough 2 3-gallon rhododendrons at Lowes back in April. One was a pink variety, one was a red variety. I already have a pink one and so I gave the new one to my Mom for Mother’s Day and its doing fine and flowering for her.
The red variety […]

Irises Not Going Dormant

In the picture to the right you should see my iris patch. Irises are perennials that grow from rhizomes. They’re very common, I’m sure you know what they look like.
In general irises go completely dormant in the winter, that means that their leaves die back all the way to the ground, and then […]

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