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Integrated Pest Management: Tips for October
Integrated Pest Management: Tips for October
Woody and perennial weeds can be controlled now by spraying their foliage with glyphosate or triclopyr. Plants are moving sugars from their leaves down to their roots, and the herbicide will be moved as well, killing the root system of the weed and eliminating the chance for regrowth. Don’t spray unless winds are calm. Nonselective herbicides like these could kill any plant that comes in contact with the spray, so be extremely careful.
Edible Landcaping: Please Do Eat the Daisies
Edible Landcaping: Please Do Eat the Daisies
Today’s harried commuter, living in a townhouse, condo, or on a postage-stamp-sized suburban lot, has to be ingenious about the use of his or her gardening space and time. Getting the most from your plot of Mother Earth—with the least amount of negative impact on either yourself or the environment—is a challenging way to stretch your imagination and expand your horticultural horizons.
A Meadow Creation: Fern Valley’s Old Field Meadow
A Meadow Creation: Fern Valley’s Old Field Meadow
The present Fern Valley meadow was started in the spring of 1984. For the three years prior to this the area was mowed as a low maintenance lawn. A four year period preceded this mowing when the area was allowed to grow as a meadow. The meadow covers almost 2 acres.
On the Inside with Jacqueline Heriteau: Everything’s Coming Up Sunflowers
On the Inside with Jacqueline Heriteau: Everything’s Coming Up Sunflowers
Everything’s coming up sunflowers for 1996! They’re everywhere! On hats, on skirts, scarves, shawls, and shirts, on greeting cards, postcards, and magazine covers. Even the posh twentieth anniversary edition of ‘Pacific Horticulture’, a prestigious little literary quarterly has given its cover to sunflowers. So it’s not a great surprise to discover that the National Garden Bureau has named 1996 the ‘Year of the Sunflower!’
Maintenance Tips for Annuals
Plants may be started from seed or purchased as transplants.
- Follow seed packet instructions as to when and how to plant seeds.
- Plant seedlings and transplants after the frost-free date for your area.
- Water the seedlings or new plants evenly.
- When the plants are 2″ to 4″ in height, pinch off the top part of the plant just above the top set of leaves. This will encourage the plant to develop side branches that will flower, making the plant fuller and its blooming more prolific.
On the Inside with Jacqueline Heriteau: Seeing Black-Eyed Susan
As you contemplate the ruins of last summer’s garden and ponder miracles for next year, give sunny, black-eyed Susans a chance to work some for you. This rustic native plant is the cover story of the summer 1996 issue of The Quarterly Journal of The Perennial Plant Association, and that’s a considerable endorsement.
The Quarterly is a small magazine published for nurserymen, wholesalers, and other members of the Perennial Plant Association. It’s not exactly the Vogue or Harper’s of the gardening world since its only color picture is on the cover.
My Favorites From This Year’s Garden:
By Marie Iannotti
It seems that as soon as I finish mulching the perennials in the fall, the new seed catalogs start arriving. Today Thompson & Morgan arrived in full color. While I am tempted to start dreaming about next year’s gardens, I think it’s important to steal a few minutes and jot down some notes about the plants that really performed past expectations in the garden this year.
On the Inside with Jacqueline Heriteau: A Gift From Mexico
Long before Christmas came to the Western continents and adopted the poinsettia, Cuetlaxochitl, the plant that turned red in November and December, was cherished as a symbol of purity by the Aztecs including the last emperor, Montezuma, (1466-1520). They also had practical applications for the plant. From the pointed bracts they extracted a reddish purple dye used as a cosmetic, and the milky white latex sap went into a medicinal preparation to counteract fever.
On the Inside with Jacqueline Heriteau: Have You Ever Seen a King Protea?
On the inside is a good place to be as the weather cools and skies turn gray. Specifically, on the inside at the National Arboretum where a huge display of some of the most fascinating flowers in the world are on show (free) now through November 16, 9 am to 4:30 pm, seven days a week.
The Year of the Zinnia
By Eleanore Lewis
For decades, zinnias have been the flowering annual of choice for spreading glorious colors throughout the garden as well as for cutting to bring indoors. But it wasn’t always so. When the Spanish first saw zinnia species in Mexico, they thought the flower was so unattractive they named it mal de ojos, or “sickness of the eye!” What changes have been brought about over the years since–in flower colors and shapes, plant sizes, and disease resistance.
