World Naked Gardening Day is May 4, 2024 Florida has nude beaches, but nudity is prohibited in at least one county where the nude beach is located (Serious voice) Let’s just get the awkwardness out of the way: Naked gardening is for real. And Florida apparently is good and bad at it. Though Miami clinched…
Harvesting your own sunflower seeds is a rewarding end-of-summer activity. Sunflowers are annuals, completing their life cycle in one season. Annuals have four main developmental phases from seed to seed: vegetative, reproductive, ripening, and senescence. A large, fully expanded sunflower head with showy, bright-yellow, ray petals is in the full reproductive stage. Seed will be…
Even though August temperatures are still well into the 100s, we have the promise of autumn just around the corner. And with autumn days is a much-anticipated relief from summer heat with refreshing, cooler days. Gardeners can once again plan for color in the ornamental garden. Feathery plumes of ‘Flamma Orange’ Celosia make it a…
You’ve done everything you’re supposed to do and your plants are still underperforming. Water quality and factors such as salts, pH, and alkalinity can determine the suitability of water for use on plants. To understand which type of water is best, it helps to know what’s in each kind of water. Tap water is suitable…
Norman Winter Tribune News Service The past couple of years, The Garden Guy has fallen head over heels for a plant called Jamesbrittenia. Microsoft just underlined it in red, pointing out two things. One: This is going to be bothersome to me as I write this. And two: If Microsoft doesn’t know it, you probably…
If your foray into the world of gardening is still relatively new ground, you might be wondering why those flowers you diligently planted in spring just aren’t the dimensional display you hoped they would be. Maybe the flowerbed you worked tirelessly to plant is lacking that certain je ne sais quoi, or perhaps the potted…
Should You Try Chaos Gardening?Helaine Weide – Getty Images “Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links.” If you’ve embraced your green thumb in the past few years and jumped on the gardening trend, you know that nothing is foolproof. You may carefully sow, weed, and tend your…
Three white tubs of basil on worktop underneath shelf If you’re looking for tips and tricks on how to keep supermarket herbs alive, there’s a high chance that you’ve already been burned by the supermarket curse. But what is the supermarket curse, we hear you ask? This curse makes sure that every supermarket herb plant…
