Carrie Terry
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Stories By Carrie Terry
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Home Remedy Spray For Tomato Plants
Home Remedy Spray for Tomato Plants. Tomatoes grow long, thriving vines in summertime and bloom repeatedly through the season to provide gardeners with a long and hearty harvest. These plants like full sun, lots of nutrition and consistent water, but come with some specific drawbacks, like pests and disease.
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How To Plant A Fall Garden In Oklahoma
How to Plant a Fall Garden in Oklahoma. Vegetable gardens start in spring and grow through summer for a full harvest, but often die away in midsummer, to wait for replanting in spring. Savvy gardeners learn to time their gardens carefully and replant summer vegetables at the midsummer point for a second harvest. These "fall" gardens must grow to maturity and bear fruit before frost, or contain only frost-hardy vegetables. In Oklahoma's USDA growing zones 6 and 7, get your timing and selection exactly right on your fall garden to bring in a second harvest.
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The Christina Azalea Plant Life Cycle
The Christina Azalea Plant Life Cycle. Azaleas are closely related to rhododendrons, and share the same love of warmth, deep moisture and acidic soil. These plants thrive in Southern states like North Carolina and Georgia, with evergreen and deciduous types. Each type has many different varieties, with different characteristics and life spans.
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What To Do With Strawberry Plants At The End Of The Summer?
What to Do With Strawberry Plants at the End of the Summer?
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Variegated Rose Bushes
Variegated Rose Bushes. Roses are traditional additions to many gardens, and seem to be an easy choice for someone who's planting flowers. But the rose family incorporates a dizzying array of choices, in regard to bush or vine, size, color, tolerances and bloom appearance. Variegated roses offer another choice, as a mutation that occurs both in nature and through selective breeding.
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Sunflower Growing Soil Preparation
Sunflower Growing Soil Preparation. Sunflowers are tall, stately plants with large, sunny blooms. The large yellow flowers attract birds, bees and butterflies, and are popular in both the garden and indoors, in vases and arrangements. Although sunflowers are relatively easy to grow, they do require the right location and soil.
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Fruit Trees In Greenhouses
Fruit Trees in Greenhouses. Fruit trees range from citrus--orange, lemon, lime, grapefruit--to stone fruit--nectarine, peach, plum, cherry--and seed fruit--apple, pear. Each type of fruit tree has a different set of standard growing guidelines, including temperature, soil and sunlight. Some fruit trees require protection in the winter, in structures like houses or greenhouses.
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Root Rot Of Bananas
Root Rot of Bananas. Bananas are unique tropical fruits that grow in an equally unique process. Because their plants don't adhere to seasonal growing restrictions, bananas can grow year-round with the right conditions, which include heat, light and plenty of water. When those conditions are ignored, banana plants and their roots fall prey to root rot and death.
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Proper Spacing Of Begonias
Proper Spacing of Begonias. Begonias are perennials, and bloom again and again from the same set of tubers, or root formations. Many begonias are warm-weather plants, though, and require indoor storage during the cold winter. The plants also require good moisture, loose foundations, and some specific spacing during planting and replanting.
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Honeysuckle In Winter
Honeysuckle in Winter. Honeysuckle is an attractive vine that thrives in almost any location, as long as it gets the right care. During summer, the vines grow and bloom to produce unique, very fragrant flowers. During winter, though, honeysuckle is somewhat different.
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Begonia Toxicity
Begonia Toxicity. Begonias are summer-flowering plants closely related to gloxinias. They are descended from tropical plants, and native to rain forests and hot tropical areas, so have a reputation for cold intolerance and difficulty. The flowers grow best in temperatures of 70 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit, which leads many homeowners to grow them indoors. Because begonias are toxic, any homeowner should handle them with some caution.
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Fall Vegetable Planting In Pennsylvania
Fall Vegetable Planting in Pennsylvania. Growing vegetables is pleasurable and rewarding, and takes up many accomplished gardeners' summer seasons. In areas like Pennsylvania, fall and winter bring an end to summertime vegetables, which require warmth and sun to survive. Winter doesn't mean you have to pack up the garden for the year, though. Change your vegetable selections and methods to plant vegetables in the fall and harvest over the winter.
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How To Grow Garcinia Cambogia Fruit
How to Grow Garcinia Cambogia Fruit. Garcinia cambogia, also known as gambooge, grindleberry or Malabar tamarind, is a tropical evergreen tree. The trees grow naturally in India and Asia and produce sweet, pumpkin-shaped fruits. The fruits, in turn, produce resin that is used as an appetite suppressant in alternative medicine. The fruits themselves also add flavor and spice to Asian and Indian dishes. If you want to grow this tropical tree for yourself, do so in a large pot and keep the tree indoors for temperature control.
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What To Fertilize A Frangipani With
What to Fertilize a Frangipani With. Frangipani, or plumeria, are small shrub-like trees with large, glossy leaves and bright pinwheel flowers in pinks, purples, reds, oranges, yellows and whites. These are tropical plants that require frost-free zones with rich soil, adequate moisture and good nutrition. Plant frangipani for summer growing, with the right soil for nutrition and moisture retention, and maintain regular feedings.
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The Best Time To Plant Strawberries In Arkansas
The Best Time to Plant Strawberries in Arkansas
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How To Eliminate Raccoons & Skunks From A Yard
How to Eliminate Raccoons & Skunks From a Yard
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