Garden Blog
I enjoy hearing from beginner gardeners because, believe it or not, I started out "there" once a upon a time (more than a few years ago now) and this is my way of paying back all those who helped me become a gardener.
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Doug
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Aug 18, 2008, Moonflower: Ginormus leaves...no blooms...what's up?
Why does my moonflower vine have huge leaves on it's 10 foot plus length but not a single bloom? It's in full sun rampantly climbing my raise deck
Permalink -- click for full blog postAug 18, 2008, Little caterpillars eating all my plants
They are about 1/2. They curled up when being touched. Can you tell me what they are and how to control them? Thanks Doug says, I can barely see them
Permalink -- click for full blog postAug 15, 2008, White powdery substance on zuchinni and butternut squash
I have never had a problem growing vegetables until now. There is a white powdery substance that now shows on my zuchinni and butternut squash plant
Permalink -- click for full blog postAug 15, 2008, Tomatoes rotting at bottom
Why are my tomatoes not ripening and getting rotten at the bottom? Doug says it's called blossom end rot and it's described right here. and in my
Permalink -- click for full blog postAug 15, 2008, Help
This plant is 4 1/2- 5 ft. tall. It is a very thick sturdy stem with flower on the top only and just leaves down the rest of the stem. It gets 1/2
Permalink -- click for full blog postAug 15, 2008, Blue Mystery
Small creeping plant, red stems, blue
Permalink -- click for full blog postAug 15, 2008, Mystery Red/Yellow trumpet-like flower
This plant is about 12 high and is growing in partial sun in zone 4 (central Wisconsin). Its blooms look like trumpets, and they will open and close
Permalink -- click for full blog postAug 13, 2008, garden flower tips
This free gardening newsletter gives you practical gardening flower tips you can use; written by award winning garden author Doug Green in his own personal style of humor and garden fun.
Permalink -- click for full blog postAug 13, 2008, stunted cucumbers with yellow tips
I have burpless cucumbers growing in VA Beach, VA in full sun. While I am gettting a few fruits, they look like they fill at one end and fail to fill
Permalink -- click for full blog postAug 13, 2008, Cauliflower without curds
Only one of my six very healthy cauliflower plants has produced curds. It's quite large and about to be harvested, but the others show no signs of
Permalink -- click for full blog postAug 11, 2008, Tomato Bugs
I have TINY little white bugs all over two of my tomato plants, and I think they're starting to spread to my other plants! What are these things, and
Permalink -- click for full blog postAug 11, 2008, red leaf flat leaf parsley
I am trying to grow flat leaf parsley in a container from seed on my kitchen counter. I live in a 2nd floor apt with no easy access to the outside, I
Permalink -- click for full blog postAug 11, 2008, orchid-like flowering beauty
Found this beauty growing between my daughter's and neighbor's house in Calgary, in drainage gravel and sun only for about one hour early afternoon!
Permalink -- click for full blog postAug 11, 2008, Weed at my barn
I see this weed on the roadside and thing it is kind of pretty. There is something similar in a roadside perrenial garden here though it is lower and
Permalink -- click for full blog postAug 7, 2008, annual plants
Annual plants add sizzle to the garden design with their brilliant colors and season-long blooms. I'm a big fan
Permalink -- click for full blog postAug 6, 2008, Blackberries and Raspberries
We bought and planted both Blackberries and Raspberries that were supposed to fruit in the first year. Not knowing (?) what we were doing really, we
Permalink -- click for full blog postAug 5, 2008, digging up bulbs
I am moving from the south to the north sometime around September. I want to take some of my flower bulbs but don't know when to dig them up and how
Permalink -- click for full blog postAug 5, 2008, lush tomato plants, blooms, but no tomatoes
This is the first year I have planted tomato plants in a new area, for the last 15 years I grew them in a different area with no problems. The new
Permalink -- click for full blog postAug 5, 2008, Do Red Twig Dogwoods have thorns?
My last landscaper planted two Red Twig Dogwoods. My new landscaper does not believe they are dogwoods because they have thorns. Have not seen
Permalink -- click for full blog postAug 5, 2008, How to get rid of lawn mushroom?
My front lawn is infested with mushroom now. I am desperate for a solution from you, Doug: Do I have to remove all the lawn which is $1000 square
Permalink -- click for full blog postAug 5, 2008, patches of brown surrounded by dark green grass
My lawn has patches of dead grass surrounded by a beautiful green colour grass. The surrounding grass grows taller and faster than the rest of the
Permalink -- click for full blog postAug 5, 2008, One day beauty
This is the second year of this blossom but unfortunately it only lasts one day looks quite exotic they come in red, pink and yellow. I just cant find
Permalink -- click for full blog postJul 30, 2008, Identify this Vegetable or Fruit.
We planted this but we forgot what it is. It is about 6-feet tall. Think it's a veggie or
Permalink -- click for full blog postJul 23, 2008, flower gardening
You know I’ve been flower gardening for more yearsthan I care to admit and I never get tired of it. Here aresome of the growing tips and techniques I've learned.
Permalink -- click for full blog postJul 23, 2008, How to Prune Petunias
This video of how to prune petuniasis a very simple garden technique and once you see it done, you'llwonder how you ever missed this little secret
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