This is one of our Top 10 most popular articles based on customer feedback and engagement. Originally published in July 2016, it has been updated with new information and product links. As always, please leave us your comments below! The hot and humid days of July and August are prime time for fungal infections to start popping up on your trees, vegetables, and landscaping plants. Some of the most common infections are powdery mildew, rust, leaf spot, and blight. Preventative treatments, and … [Read more...] about Organic Treatments for Fungal Infections 2022
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Cloning Problems and Solutions 2022
-Mike Weeks- This is one of our Top 15 most popular articles based on customer feedback and engagement. Originally published in May 2018, it has been updated with new product plugs and images. As always, please leave us your comments below! When it comes to taking plant clones, even experienced growers can experience frustrating challenges. Oftentimes, this is just a matter of developing bad habits in the delicate process that ultimately leads to failure. This article will point out some … [Read more...] about Cloning Problems and Solutions 2022
Sharing Your Garden with Your Dogs
-Pam Scott- I once had a garden full of beautifully flowering perennial beds, annuals, roses and bulbs. This garden overflowed with year-round seasonal beauty. It was immaculately trimmed, trellised and tidy, not a branch out of place, not a weed to be found. That all came to an abrupt end when I fell in love with and adopted two, young 80 lb rescue Boxers. These rough and tumble boys laid waste to my entire garden in a matter of days. Nothing seemed to delight them more than the sound … [Read more...] about Sharing Your Garden with Your Dogs
Magnificent Monstera Deliciosa
-Pam Scott- Monstera Deliciosa, is there a botanical name any more descriptive or intriguing for a tropical plant? I don't think so. The name refers to a magnificent plant that tends to grow monstrously huge with heavily indented, perforated leaves, and as a bonus it produces a custardy pineapple-banana flavored fruit that is a food staple in its native Central American environs. While wading through the confusing mess that is common botanical nomenclature you will find this plant … [Read more...] about Magnificent Monstera Deliciosa
Watering, When You Gotta Go! – Products Review
-Elliott Richter- Today’s Product review is actually a review of 4 options for keeping your plants watered when you have to leave for a trip, work, vacation, what have you. We will be covering 2 products each from Blumat: the Easy Adapter and Classic Junior Universal Automatic plant waterers (aka “Carrots”), and from Bosmere: Mr. EverGreen and Bottle Plant Drinks, where both Bosmere products are twin packs. Overview: Everyone has been there. A last minute trip pops up due to an … [Read more...] about Watering, When You Gotta Go! – Products Review
Epiphyllum, Queen of the Night
-Pam Scott- As an avid collector of all things green and growing, I am always on the lookout for plants that I find endlessly entertaining. Plants that bloom and have interesting growth habits are top on my list of favorites. I find that most epiphytic plants easily fit into the description of “endlessly entertaining”. Epiphytic, as opposed to terrestrial plants, are ones that grow on other plants. Staghorn ferns, some orchids, air plants, some bromeliads, and epiphyllum are all … [Read more...] about Epiphyllum, Queen of the Night
Let’s get this spring thing started!
-Pam Scott- It’s February 1st, and I am marveling at the insulating, nitrogen-rich blanket of snow covering my garden. Today I will be making my way out to the yard to take cuttings of quince and forsythia. They will be taken indoors and put into vases of warm water where they will be forced into bloom, filling the house with the colors and scents of spring. This is a yearly tradition for me to welcome in the beginning of “Gardeners Spring”. This is also the date when we at Fifth Season … [Read more...] about Let’s get this spring thing started!
Growing Poinsettias Year Round
-Pam Scott- This time of year, many of us are decking our halls with boughs of holly, evergreens, and the perennial favorite… poinsettias. I have to admit that in the past I have had a rather “whatever” attitude when it came to treating poinsettias as an indoor tropical houseplant. I love to use them to fill in spots that need seriously fabulous seasonal color in my home or as the perfect holiday gift to give to a friend or relative when I have no clue what to give them. I considered them as … [Read more...] about Growing Poinsettias Year Round
October Planting and Vernalization
-Pam Scott- October skies are clear, the air is crisp, and it's the perfect time to work in the garden. There are plenty of gardening chores to be done before we hang up our trowels for the winter. Fall crops need to be mulched, protected from frost, and harvested. Potted plants need to be trimmed, sprayed for bugs, and brought indoors for the winter. October is a wonderful time to plant fruit trees, strawberries, perennials, garlic, shallots, and spring flowering bulbs. Carrot and … [Read more...] about October Planting and Vernalization
A Simple Formula for Perfect Container Gardens
Let’s set the stage: You find a great deal on the perfect ceramic pot to go beside your front door. It’s time to do it up, so you peruse Pinterest for inspiration and excitedly take a trip to the local nursery to purchase your plants, but when you get there and begin looking around you become completely overwhelmed, paralyzed. Dang, I’ve been there! Creating beautiful, balanced, professional-looking containers doesn’t have to be intimidating. Learning a simple design technique was a total … [Read more...] about A Simple Formula for Perfect Container Gardens
