Doug Green

Vegetables How to Grow Your Own Food Easily

Roses How to succeed with growing roses -easy when you know how

Pests Organic pest control in the home garden.

Up With Vines! Flowering and fast growing covers for walls and fences

Perennial Flowers List of plants for special places with download codes for shopping

Growing fruit in the home garden is one of the delights of summer. If you can imagine the delight in eating your own sun-warmed raspberries (or layering them on ice cream as I like to do) or harvesting your own plump strawberries, then you're a candidate for fruit growing.

garden design

Raspberries and vanilla ice cream - doesn't get any better

Growing Raspberries

Raspberries are my favorite fruit and here's how to grow them.

Strawberries

Who can argue with strawberry shortcake, here's how to grow your own dessert

Rhubarb

Rhubarb pie, made with fresh rhubarb in the spring is one of the great rewards for gardening

Planting Apple Trees

Planting apple trees (or any fruit tree) properly is the beginning of a great friendship - do it wrong however...

Pruning Apples

Guidelines for pruning apple trees - simplified

New Articles

Jan 31, 2012

poinsettia to bloom again

Getting poinsettia to bloom again with schedule and detailas for home gardeners

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Jan 31, 2012

poinsettia care

Here are 7 rules for poinsettia care along with a link to getting them to rebloom

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Jan 23, 2012

Chicken wire

I have bound my bales with 50mm Chicken wire to help mould then as they sag - 50mm also alows you to gain easy access for side planting...see how it grows...Good

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Jan 13, 2012

poinsettia turning black

The red leaves on my plant are turning black. Not dried up, just black. Gradually get darker and darker till they are black. The green leaves are fine.

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Jan 10, 2012

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Jan 8, 2012

Tucson heat

Are the summers in Tucson, AZ both day and night, too hot to have a poinsettia outside in a pot. Would it be better to keep it inside, so that you can

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Dec 6, 2011

can poinsettas come back to life

I bought a poinsetta 1yr ago. I was able to keep it alive and thriving very well till the other day i went to water it and noticed ALL the leaves were

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Nov 21, 2011

A type of weed

My sister had this type of weed plant that she gave to me. It blooms flowers (im not sure of what type of flowers), and it rises with the sun. During the

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Nov 7, 2011

fall warm weather growth

My question is, what do I do to the growth on my irises if they start growing in november due to warm weather? Will they still grow in the spring? Doug

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Oct 20, 2011

Purple perennial in North Carolina

This is a plant that I saw growing against a wall near a restaurant in Chapel Hill. It dies back in winter and spreads by sending out new shoots along

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