Root Growth Time Calculator for Establishment
The real action occurs underground, where most gardeners’ eyes never wander. Roots obtains nutrients, oxygen, and water from the soil before they’re able to support … Read more
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Summercrisp Pear Pollination Chart
The one beautiful pear tree you planted will bloom in spring, perhaps, and then…nothing by summer. Why? Pears tend not to self-pollinate well. If you’ve … Read more
Onion From Seed Growth Time Calculator
Don’t trust what’s printed on a seed packet, either; onion timing isn’t dictated by any calendar month. It’s all about the warming soil plus the … Read more
Perennial Bloom Chart
It happens in mid-June: Your garden is empty, no matter how hard you tryed. You did all that careful planting in April and marveled at … Read more
Horse Manure Composting Time Calculator
Most barn owners treats composting like a black hole. Shovel soiled bedding in one corner, pile more over time, and wait until something dark appears. … Read more
Perennial Bloom Time Chart Zone 5
If you garden in zone 5, it can be discouraging to plant in April and barely see things growing by June. While neighbors farther south … Read more
New Lawn Watering Calculator for Establishment
So you try to grow a lawn by broadcasting some seed, or laying down new sod, hoping for a carpet of green. And then you … Read more
Nectarine Pollination Chart
Once flowers fall from nectarine tree, small green knobs will begin to appear. These are beginnings of fruit. But many times the fruit will go … Read more
Fescue Grass Seed Germination Time Calculator
‘why doesn’t mine come up?’ you say of your lawn, comparing it to that of a neighbor’s. ‘I throw down seed and I water, but…nothing.’ … Read more
Lawn Watering After Fertilizing Calculator
When the final application of fertilizer is spread, you look up at sky hoping for rain. Now the granules of potassium, phosphorus and nitrogen lies … Read more
Holly Pollination Chart
You plant a female holly tree and count on those red berries come winter. You feed it, water it…but no luck: No berries, just empty … Read more