With its crisp autumn air and beautiful colors, people don’t traditionally think of fall as prime planting season. Cooler temperatures and less risk of drought provide an ideal time for landscaping. Trees, shrubs, flowers and vegetables are all prime fall planting candidates. Here is an outline of what varieties fare best and guidelines for planting. ...
Tennessee’s long growing season makes it the ideal place to grow a vegetable garden. Many crops can be planted several times in one season. Using techniques, like succession planting, ensures a continuous harvest all season long. In Tennessee, cool season crops can be planted twice; one planting in late winter and another planting in early ...
One of the easiest perennial flower plants to grow has to be the bearded iris and it doesn’t hurt that it’s also one of the most beautiful flowers, with hundreds of rainbow hued varieties to choose from. July and August are prime months of ordering, planting, and dividing iris plants, although you can plant through ...
In order to get the best bulbs to plant in the fall for spring flowers, you should be planning in the summer. You want to pick bulbs for your particular region, climate and soil. Don’t do what I did and try to plant all the wrong bulbs in my Florida garden. I soon learned that ...
The summer sun is both a blessing and a curse, which will both nourish and scald your plants. Fortunately, there are many sun-tolerant shrubs to choose from. While there is a variety of Euonymous or Viburnum for every zone and location, consider some of these sun lovers for your bright spot. Like all newly planted ...
Garlic is an often overlooked crop in home gardens, despite it’s extreme ease in growing. Plant a Fall crop for a carefree yield next summer. Garlic is often not sold in gardening centers as other bulbs and vegetables are, and so is often overlooked as a home grown crop. The reason garlic may not be ...
Potatoes are a cool season crop; they grow best in early spring and late fall when the days are warm and the nights are cool. Although the potato is a cool-season crop and the edible part of the plant is an underground stem called a tuber (not a root), the tops of the plant will ...
Fences are nice addition to almost any yard, but they will need some upkeep, like painting and installing it so the wind won’t blow it over. A living fence of laurel is better because it adds year-round color coolness to the landscape. It provides a home and food for birds and other wildlife. You don’t ...
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