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Soil Must Be Fertile to Get Harvests of Fine VegetablesFor growing bountiful harvests of fine vegetables, the soil must be fertile and in condition to work easily and well, without baking. The best way to provide both plant food and "conditioner" is to use stable manure
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Growing Flowers Between the House, StreetDo you want to devote the space in the back of the home to play or to food gardening yet still have flowers? Growing flowers between the house and the street instead of in the back yard is sensible and effective in many instances.
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Child's First GardenFor your child's first real try at gardening and for something different for yourself, why not choose a plant with growth that is fascinating and a product that will supply confectionery treats? Such a plant is the peanut.
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Best Vines for Home UseWe often have inquiries as to why this or that vine does not thrive in a home location. Actually some vines are more suitable for certain conditions than are others
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Tomatoes in Every GardenTomatoes were popular even before vegetable patches became known as Victory gardens or as Liberty gardens, their present name. Formerly termed a "love apple," the tomato continues to win fame as a delicious health-giving food.
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It's Bare Root Rose TimeStocks of bare-root roses are now on hand at the nurseries and this is the time of year when rose planting is, or should be, every gardener's first consideration. Bare-root roses should be set out during their dormant season which, in the Long Beach area
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Growing Strawberries in a BarrelEvery year more and more gardeners want to know about growing strawberries in a barrel. This is understandable, for the barrel method saves space, provides decoration and good fruit right in the patio or at the backdoor.
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Gardening Activity Entails Many JobsThe trouble with gardening - or maybe it's one of the nice things about it - is that you spend so much time at jobs pretty far removed from the actual care and cultivation of plants.
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Earthworms in the GardenThe importance of breeder earthworms for home gardens as well as orchards is fast becoming better understood.
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Bulbous Plants Need Much Care for Best ResultsRanunculus, anemones, daffodils and narcissus are four favorite bulbous plants in this area. Mass planting of these will make a beautiful yard in the early spring and they are also excellent as cut flowers.
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'Fillers' for LandscapingYou can use garden "fillers" to excellent advantage no matter how large or how small your scene. Among landscapers a "filler" is a plant that grows rapidly but which is desired only for temporary effects.
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Spring Garden Plans Being Formulated NowMany gardeners are enthusiastically planning for a lovely yard next spring. Many are anxious to plant foliage plants that will be both attractive in the yard and useful in flower arrangements.
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Air-Condition Your GardenJuly is the time of the year when air conditioning is as important in the garden as it is in the home. You or your gardener, as the temperature rises, can cool off with an electric fan, a cool drink or by hiding away in a cool spot.
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Papayas, Exotic Food PlantPapaya plants are usually grown from seed. Although cuttings grow easily, they develop more slowly than seedlings. Seeds should be sown thinly, about half an inch deep, in rich, well-drained, porous soil in flats or seed beds.
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Late Tulips Pay OffIt is not too late to plant tulips. Many of our most successful gardeners, amateur and professional alike, have enjoyed excellent results from planting tulips at this time.
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Keep Plants Well TrainedOne of the most neglected gardening jobs is the training of plants to keep them in their place. Ornamentals that trespass out of bounds quickly will cause a garden to lose its appeal.
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Colorful Daylilies Are Adaptable PlantThese plants are quite adaptable and in this area may be divided almost any time. Some gardeners like to divide their plants immediately after the blooming period.
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Warnings on Sweet Pea Culture Should Be HeededDespite the fact that most gardeners want practical facts to help them with their gardens, there are many who will ignore the advice of experts and attempt to grow sweet peas despite unsatisfactory conditions.
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Easy-Does-It Gardening in CaliforniaGrow flowers that thrive easily in California. Learn their correct planting months and their season for blooming.
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Alyssum for All-Year BeautyAlyssum is one of the showiest and most persistent flowering of the low-growing plants, both in the perennial, which is treated as an annual and called sweet alyssum, and the annual called golden tuft.
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Try Starting a Window-Box GardenWindow-box gardening can be carried on just as successfully in the shade as in the sun. It's a matter of selecting the right varieties. And that's why the location or exposure of your window box determines the kind of plants that will grow in it.
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Clump Perennials Save FussIf you like a colorful garden display that needs little coddling other than plenty of water and yet continues abundantly over a longer period than a crisp, fresh spring, select sturdy perennials that grow in clumps.
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Neglect of Tree Pruning Task May Prove Costly Later OnI've heard commercial men gay that the orchids draw the most interest at a garden show but this is questionable. True everybody likes to look at orchids, but the majority of people are only viewers.
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Rhododendrons Easy to GrowI've heard commercial men gay that the orchids draw the most interest at a garden show but this is questionable. True everybody likes to look at orchids, but the majority of people are only viewers.
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Don't Rush Planting of Spring BulbsIf this year follows the usual weather pattern for our part of the country, some of our warmest weather is still ahead, which means that summer will have some "echoes" until possibly mid-October or even later.
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Some Ideas About Orchards at HomeAs the century starts its second half, reviews of progress are the order of the day. In our gardens as well as elsewhere great changes have taken place.
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Lily Fanciers Can Choose from Great Many TypesLily fanciers may choose from a larger list than ever before available when they plan their lily planting for next summer's flowers.
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Choice is Wide Among BegoniasSomeone who has said that begonias are like hats - you have to choose your own from among hundreds.
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Try Fertilizer Coated SeedsThis is the time to take the rubber band off your pocketbook and buy your annual supply of fertilizer, manure and other necessary gardening materials.
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Multi-Purpose ConifersWinter always brings to mind the cone-bearing evergreens, probably because they are native to cold climates and grow well in places where temperatures are low.
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Christmas Cactus is BeautifulDuring the holiday season, a well-grown Christmas cactus in full bloom is an exceptionally beautiful plant. October is the month to prepare this potted plant for its part in the festive occasion that is Christmas.
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Building a Garden PathGarden paths and walks should be considered from several points of view: the amount of traffic they will receive, their harmony with the landscape pattern and type of architecture.
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Declare War Now on WeedsBugs get more publicity, but weeds still rank as one of the worst of garden pests. And one great trouble with weeds (especially in the favorable climate of the Long Beach, California, area) is that they never stop growing.
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The Glorious MagnoliaIt is a thrilling experience when the magnolia grandiflora starts to bloom. Few flowers in all the plant kingdom can equal the luscious, big, hauntingly fragrant blossoms of this tree of the Old South, which thrives so well in Long Beach.
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Try a Garden from SeedGrowing plants from seed is one of the most exciting, economical gardening practices. When you plant a named variety of a rose, an iris or a day lily, you know in advance exactly what the flower will look like.
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Garden IllusionIf you have only a small space in which to create a garden, don't be discouraged by reading about large gardens. It is possible to give your little plot the appearance of greater depth and width.
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Grow Tasty CucumbersCucumbers may be a bit tricky to grow successfully. But by following a few simple suggestions, a good supply of crisp slicing "cukes" should be possible.
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Shrubs Give More Beauty, Less WorkNo person who is charged with the care of a piece of ground can afford to ignore that portion of plant material classified as shrubs.
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Easter Gift PlantsIf you would like to do something for a friend at Easter, give him or her a potted plant. Bouquets and corsages are lovely, as givers and recipients all know.
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Orchids Are Easy to GrowYou can't exactly give an orchid to an orchid. But if awards are ever given to plants for meritorious service, then the cymbidium orchid certainly deserves a gold medal.
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Utilitarian Sphagnum - Handy and UnderusedSphagnum moss, sometimes mistakenly called peat moss, is a very handy horticultural material but too little used in the home gardener's efforts.
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Hyacinths for PerfumeHyacinths are one of the most popular bulbs for fall planting. They owe their fame to two definite qualifications.
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You Reap a Fruit Crop and Beauty, TooBeauty alone is excuse enough for planting shrubs and trees around your home - but, through a little study and careful selection, you may have that beauty and also get highly delicious fruits for year-round enjoyment.
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Many Types of Trees Thrive in Yards in Corpus Christi, TexasTrees are becoming a major asset in Corpus Christi, Texas, yards. Almost everyone considers a yard more valuable where there are well-grown shade trees.
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Fast-Grown Vegetables ExcelSteady, uninterrupted growth seems to be the secret of successful vegetable gardening. Crops that are held back at any stage of the growing season usually turn out to be pithy and unpalatable.
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Tall, Tough and Torrid-colored Garden Giants Would Be Coreopsis and RudbeckiaAn interesting selection from these tall, tough and torrid-colored garden giants would be coreopsis and Rudbeckia.
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Plants Abhor 'Wet Feet'Adequate drainage is probably the only protection your plants have against damaging rains. Almost every year a certain number of Long Beach gardens are injured by excess moisture that falls to drain properly.
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Setting Out Plants is Delicate ProcessNow that cooler weather is here, gardeners are anticipating beauty of next spring's yard by setting out shrubs, trees and roses and bedding plants.
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Tulip Bulbs Now Planted DeeperAmong old garden maxims that have become obsolete is the one about the depth of planting seeds and bulbs. Four times the diameter of the seed of bulb was once though to be a good rule, but it has long been disproved.
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Flowers from Fall Bulbs Beautify Spring GardensContinuous bloom in next spring's garden, from the time frost leaves the ground until the iris and peonies bloom, can be enjoyed by the home gardener who selects his fall bulbs according to their time of flowering
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Iris, like a Pretty Girl, is Almost IrresistibleThis article on "Irresistible Iris" might well be written about a certain pigtailed girl of 13 in the pheasant and partridge country of Ohio.
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Humus Helps to Keep Soil from PackingIn this area one of a gardener's greatest troubles is trying to keep the soil loose. Because of the intensity of the sun and constant artificial irrigation that we have to do, most of our native soil packs very hard.
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Naturals for Planting in Southern CaliforniaPlants that quickly become naturalized make gardening an easy, and more enjoyable hobby. Ornamentals that lend themselves to this kind of landscaping must look and act as if they were natives of the area where they're planted.
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Begin Early If You Expect to Head Off Garden PestsThough many new insecticides have been developed and are under test, D.D.T. and rotenone remain the chief reliance of home gardeners for pest control in both the vegetable and flower gardens.
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Caring for Plants in WinterEven in the Long Beach area - noted for its mild winters - ornamentals will react favorably to being protected during the next few months. Day temperatures may still feel like July
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Ranunculus and AnemonesRanunculus and anemones, two of Southern California's most popular spring-flowering ornamentals, deserve to be known as the twin flowers. They look alike, grow alike and may be propagated from either seed or corms.
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Gardening Under Glass During WinterImagine the thrill of cutting hyacinths, roses or huge daffodils while snow covers the ground - or of proudly exhibiting an exotic orchid bloom you raised yourself.
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Give Garden Tools CareHow well your garden grows may depend on tools that you use and the way they're maintained. Efficient tools that are kept in good repair will change your gardening chores into a pleasure.
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Grow Your Own VegetablesYou can cut the high cost of living, be healthier and have a lot of fun by growing fresh vegetables at home.
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Give Yourself a New LawnOne of the most important steps in starting a lawn is providing adequate moisture. From the time the seed is sown until the grass plants are fairly well established, the surface must be kept constantly moist.
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Home Crown Fruit Tastes BestYou can have fruit trees and berries in your garden throughout the entire year. There are early and late varieties and dozens of different types of fruits. Although Southern California has won much fame for her glorious oranges
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Plant Tulips Late, DeepTulips have enjoyed a more romantic history than any other bulb. And their value, per bulb, has undoubtedly exceeded that of any comparable kind of planting material.
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'Shy' Little Violet - Not So in Southern CaliforniaThis phrase "shy little violet" is decidedly a misnomer. At least it is in Southern California. If given a reasonable amount of care, the violet is anything but shy in either growth or bloom.
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Grow Vegetables in Winter in Southern CaliforniaGrowing vegetables in the home garden is easier during late fall and winter than during spring and summer. This, of course, applies only to Southern California growing conditions.
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How to Pot Your PlantsPotted plants will cover a multitude of gardening sins. They will prove a valuable asset for every type of landscaping; no matter how large or how small your garden, the widespread use of potted material will provide added interest and beauty.
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How to Control Depth of Sowing SeedModern practice in sowing seeds favors shallow planting. Just how deep to place them is not too important, provided they are not too deep. And the maximum depth in the vegetable garden may be considered to be 1 to 2 inches.
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Of Many Tulip Clans, Each Has Gift for Your GardenDarwin tulips are so popular nowadays, many amateurs do not realize there are other tulip clans with colors and qualities which Darwins lack, which can prolong the tulip season and enrich the garden display.
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Harmonize Garden ColorsIf you want a parade of color in your garden, then take your cue from a standard color chart. You can select those shades that are known to harmonize, then simply substitute with flowering specimens that coincide.
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Blooms that Herald SpringJust when you decide that winter will last forever, a naked little shrub or tree suddenly bursts into gorgeous bloom and your heart is lifted. Spring is just around the corner!
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Year-Round Garden ColorFor just a few cents a year you can fill your garden with flowers all the way from January through December. There are dozens of ornamentals that thrive in the Long Beach area and have a free-flowering habit of growth.
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Indoor Landscaping is FunIt's always open season for indoor gardening. The problems are few and you can direct activities from your favorite armchair. Growing conditions remain fairly constant, and you'll not have to worry about wind, rain, bugs or frost.
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It's Always Juniper TimeJunipers are extremely popular evergreens for many purposes. Handsome and adaptable, they make grand hedges, backgrounds, foreground subjects, columns, espaliers, trees, ground covers or pool beautifiers.
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Foliage with FragrancePlants with fragrant leaves will add a lot to your garden scene. Ornamentals that have a rich perfume such as stocks, narcissus, carnations and comparable subjects, are of course, well known.
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Annuals for Winter Color in Southern CaliforniaAnnuals are a natural for winter color in Southern California. They grow faster than any other kind of plant. This is especially important during the winter season as cooler temperatures usually cause plant growth to slow down.
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Try Growing Bulbs IndoorsGrowing bulbs indoors is a type of gardening that can be enjoyed by everybody. You don't need a vast acreage, a lot of money for upkeep or, as a matter of fact, very much knowledge.
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Small Flowers 'Fit In'Small flowers have a place in every garden and home. They fit admirably in the smallest, as well as the largest, landscape. The effect they create will prove as pleasing in a clay pot or a window box as when massed together on a huge estate.
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Foliage Plants for BeautyGood foliage makes a garden beautiful and interesting at any time of the year. Gorgeous bloom and spectacular color of flowers are purely seasonal, so the wise and skillful gardener relies on the diversity of form, size, shades of green
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Flowers for Winter BloomIn the Long Beach, California, area, you can have flowers blooming in your garden all through the winter months. This is the time of the year when floral beauty attains its greatest value.
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Garden Gadgets as GiftsGarden gadgets will make a wonderful Christmas for all your gardening friends. Those not now interested in gardening might be converted with a few attractive plants and one or two gadgets required for their upkeep.
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Poinsettia Care Preserves PlantAre you one of those unhappy people who are watching handsome bright red and green leaves drop off that lovely Christmas poinsettia and don't know what to do about it? If so, relax because that is what is supposed to happen.
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Nature Places Big Obstacle before San Antonio Rose GardenersA cool, moist climate like San Francisco has, and a soil aggregate of sandy loam, slightly on the acid side, is ideal for rose growing. San Antonio does not measure up to these standards.
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Protecting, Growing Tips for PlantsMidwinter is the time when insects are most likely to be found on indoor plants. If leaves on the ivy are poor in color and sticky and webby on the underside, red spider is at work.
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New Models in Shasta DaisiesDuring the past few years some very interesting, new Shasta daisies have been introduced. They show little resemblance to the varieties of grandmother's day.
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You Can Save Your Christmas PoinsettiaNow that those Christmas poinsettias are beginning to look like the last roses of summer, what's to be done with them - just toss the whole potted plant out? A lot of people wonder.
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Forest Genetics Center to Bring Tree ImprovementStudies in tree improvement will be carried on throughout Wisconsin, Michigan and Minnesota from a new forest genetics center to be established near here by the Lake States Forest Experiment Station of St. Paul, Minn.
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Select Shrubs to Bloom Every Month of YearIt is unfortunate when garden shrubs only give a burst of bloom in spring or for a short season. With careful selection and planting, the gardens of our area can have some shrubs in bloom all year.
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Home Building Now Takes to the HillsWith level land near cities getting scarce and costly, many home builders are, from necessity, taking to the hills, House & Home reports.
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Blue -the Favorite Flower Color as Underplanting for Pink Spring-Blossoming TreesYour garden is truly a picture of loveliness when it is framed with trees that bloom in the spring. Puffy clouds of pink or white reach up to the azure sky.
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Order Vegetable Garden Seeds by Feb. 15, Expert SaysOrder your home vegetable garden seeds not later than Feb. 15, says John Schoenemann, horticulturist at the University of Wisconsin.
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Daphne Bush Will Greet Your GuestsA daphne bush in bloom by the entrance greets your friends before you open the door Jasmine floats across the evening air. And a single gardenia perfumes the house.
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Perennial Vegetables Are Easy to GrowPerennial vegetable enjoy an case of culture seldom duplicated in the plant kingdom. If you you grow any vegetables at all be sure to save some space for the perennial types.
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Delphinium - Among the Loveliest of FlowersDelphinium, which is a perennial larkspur, is one of our most beautiful garden flowers. The selected hybrids produce plants from 3 to 4 feet in height with great quantities of florets in delicate shades of blue.
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Real Cool Iceland PoppyWinter gardens are often unnecessarily drab. There are enough plants that will give satisfactory color under winter growing conditions that there is no reason to accept the feeling that winter gardens must be bleak and bare.
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How to Work Fir Plywood for Best ResultsBecause the grain of plywood runs in two directions, the procedures in working with it differ a little from those employed on lumber.
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Gladiolus is Almost Year-Round PlantGladiolus are year-round flowers to the florist and to the local gardener they can be almost year round plants if we plan and plant carefully enough and if we are willing to treat corms and spray plants against thrip.
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Winter-Resistant English DaisyMost flowers that bloom during the rainy season tend to become weather beaten and bedraggled with the winter winds and rain. Luckily there are a few flowers that take this type of treatment and still present a bright
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Camellia, the Perfect FlowerProper soil and plenty of moisture are perhaps the two most important factors in growing prize-winning camellias. The plants want a soil that is on the acid side.
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Try Freesias in a Sunny CornerLike so many other plants for South Africa, the freesia is very much at home in the Long Beach area. Southern California is perhaps the only region in the United States where freesias can be grown outdoors during the winter season.
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Annuals Sowed Now Bring Rare Spring ColorsDuring these winter months, California gardeners can affirm their faith in the coming of spring by sowing annuals for gorgeous spring and summer color.
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Pyracantha Can Be EspalieredMr. and Mrs. Norman F. Anderson have succeeded in doing what one often reads about, but what few, if anyone else in Lake Charles, have attempted: espaliering pyracantha.
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Some Tips for Celebrations - Use Care Tonight, Be Alive TomorrowAdvice for year-end celebrations: This is the night of opportunity - the opportunity of living to see New Year's Day.
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Don't Fret About Myositis; It's Merely a Muscle AcheThere are many reasons why a muscle can get sore. For instance, I was recently talking to a women who was distressed because her right breast was hurting her so much.
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For Happier Holidays, Use National Baby Care Council SuggestionsThe yuletide season is the busiest time of the entire year for the baby sitter. She is in constant demand by shoppers, hostesses and party-goers.
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Succulents for Pot GardeningAeoniums are good succulent pot plant specimens in sunny locations, needing a minimum of water yet providing spikes of showy flowers
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September is Month for Soil ImprovementSeptember in the garden is often a time to work and to improve the soil therein because that is usually the time when most annuals are pulled out and new seeds are planted or seedlings set in and needed humus is added to the soil.
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Tiny Trees Grown for House AccentHave you noticed how many homes have one or two small trees planted for accent? Not large enough for shade, not tall enough for impressive height, but just a medium-sized tree.
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Your Lawn's Worst Enemy - Compacted SoilMost homeowners know that compacted soil Is one of a lawn's worst enemies. Grass simply refuses to grow if the soil is too hard.
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Spring Bulbs Bring BeautyHolland has given us the answer to a more beautiful spring next year. The secret is to plant Dutch bulbs now.
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Hydroponics Can Be Used Inside, OutsideHydroponics, the science of growing plants in solution without soil, has moved out of the laboratory and limited commercial fields and is now being made available for home use, both inside and out.
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Parlor Ivy Sociable Plant Needs Warm, Shaded SpotParlor Ivy, or German Ivy, as it used to be known, is Senecio mikamoides. It is a close relative of chrysanthemums and other well-known garden plants but not even remotely related to true ivy.
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Callas Provide New Look in Your GardenSomewhere along the line, gardeners have gotten out of the Calla Lily habit, which seems a shame when you consider all the good things Callas have done for California gardens of yesteryear. Perhaps it's time we took a new look at this old friend.
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Keep After Garden ChoresDon't wait till next spring, then suddenly wake up and madly prune back the Martha Washington geraniums. Then it will be too late to get spring flowers. If you haven't already pruned them back, do so right away.
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Treat Your Bulbs Before PlantingFall is bulb planting time for daffodils, tulips, hyacinths, snowdrops, crocus, scilla and others. Fall is also the time when most bugs go into hibernation out of sight and the gardener forgets all about them.
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Salt Lake City Teen Wins National Iris AwardOne of the most important activities of all garden clubs is the sponsoring of junior clubs and encouraging of junior activities. Teaching young people to study and plant flowers and to utilize them in arrangements.
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Seed Saving is Risky - Better Buy YoursIf you are an old-timer, you probably remember how good vegetables used to be. Well, they are better now, even though you may not think so. Since you were young, many years of plant breeding in plant improvement have gone into modern vegetable varieties.
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Blooming of Aloes in South AfricaOne of the great floral sights of the world is the blooming of the aloes in South Africa. Visitors to the Desert Plant Garden in San Marino, California, get some notion with the flaming plants come into bloom there.
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Gardenias, Begonias Are Among House Plants that Start from CuttingsSometime before it frosts, you may want to take cuttings from a few tender plants for bloom or colorful foliage in the house this winter or for use in your garden next spring.
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Begonia Selection is a Major ChoreBegonias have always been among our most prized plants. Ranging in size from miniatures that can grow comfortably in an egg-cup to veritable giants that attain 5 feet or more in height, there is a begonia to fit every preference and every purse.
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Community-Beautiful Program of San Mateo, CaliforniaIn August 1950, the Men's Garden Club of San Mateo, California, was just 1 year old. To commemorate the event the club adopted a "Community-Beautiful" program as a major civic activity.
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How to Remove Overgrown PlantsThere is a tendency among gardeners to treat all evergreen shrubs as though they were sacred. Uprooting them would seem to be a cardinal sin.