8 Ways To Kill Fungus Gnats In My Houseplants
Along about this time of the year in Ohio, I start thinking about how to kill fungus gnats in these plants that I have summered outside. Which will be allowed to come back…
Tufa Times Magazine Hints – Drainage Holes
Hypertufa Planters are known for their great drainage! But if you make a hypertufa planter, even though the garden planter is very porous, you still need to have drainage holes in the bottom…
Semps and Hens and Chicks…Oh My!
It’s halfway through August! How has the summer passed by so swiftly? The Sedum “Autumn Joy” is so full of its green buds and I will welcome the pinkish tinge which will be…
Those Garage Pots Are Fried – Sedum Angelina To The Rescue – She’ll Grow Anywhere!
It is just too hot and sunny out there for most plants and I don’t carry water out there daily…my bad. Our garden hoses don’t reach around that far from either side, so…
Moss Tufa Looks Blah! Let’s Replant My Largest Hypertufa!
My Moss Tufa, the giant hypertufa trough that I wrote about in this post, is not looking as well as I thought it should. Most of the moss had changed to an orange…
Easy Snake Plant Propagation – My First Time – Water & Soil Methods
First of all, I have never tried snake plant propagation, but there is no time like the first time, so I thought I would share the experience in case you wanted to try…
Osage Orange or Hedge Apples? Do They Ward Off Pests?
It’s Monday again and here in Ohio and it’s hot. Is it seriously this far gone toward fall? I want summer for a little while longer…no, I need it to be a lot…
Great Plant Pick: Portulacaria afra
Elephant Bush or Elephant Food? Yes, it sure is. Portulacaria afra is a perennial succulent native to South Africa but it is a great plant for outdoors and indoors over winter here in…
Check Out That Shape!
Recently, I ran across this plastic planter at a garage sale. This was an especially nice shape to use as a hypertufa mold made of a hard resin-type material and would have made…
Zzzzt! Zzzzt! Zzzzt! Electric Bug Zappers? Am I Heartless?
Earlier this summer, we decided to go ahead and hang our Electric mosquito zapper or basically an electric bug zapper out on the back deck. I wasn’t sure just how I would feel…
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