http://www.karensgardentips.com Practical tips to help you get the most out of your garden. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:10:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.karensgardentips.com/growing-garden-plants/plant-propagation/how-to-make-root-cuttings/ http://www.karensgardentips.com/growing-garden-plants/plant-propagation/how-to-make-root-cuttings/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:00:26 +0000 Karen http://www.karensgardentips.com/?p=15550 Read 'How to Make Root Cuttings' at http://www.KarensGardenTips.com.

When you have a plant you love you may want to produce more of them to use in your own garden or pass on to friends. There are many ways to propagate plants but each kind of plant has its own requirements in this regard. Some popular [...]]]> http://www.karensgardentips.com/growing-garden-plants/plant-propagation/how-to-make-root-cuttings/feed/ 0 http://www.karensgardentips.com/growing-garden-plants/15420/ http://www.karensgardentips.com/growing-garden-plants/15420/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:00:47 +0000 Karen http://www.karensgardentips.com/?p=15420 Read 'Quick Tip for Transplanting Perennials in Fall' at http://www.KarensGardenTips.com.

On a recent trip to the local big box store during early November I found a nice little New York aster in the bargain bin. It had already finished blooming but was healthy and begged to be bought and taken to a permanent garden home. [...]]]> http://www.karensgardentips.com/growing-garden-plants/15420/feed/ 0 http://www.karensgardentips.com/growing-garden-plants/how-to-plant-spring-blooming-bulbs/ http://www.karensgardentips.com/growing-garden-plants/how-to-plant-spring-blooming-bulbs/#comments Tue, 28 Jun 2011 09:00:19 +0000 Karen http://www.karensgardentips.com/?p=13129 Read 'How to Plant Spring Blooming Bulbs' at http://www.KarensGardenTips.com.

The bulb catalogs start coming by the beginning of summer and there is a good reason why. Spring blooming bulbs should be planted in the fall and you need time to plan, order, prepare the soil, and then plant the bulbs so they will have time [...]]]> http://www.karensgardentips.com/growing-garden-plants/how-to-plant-spring-blooming-bulbs/feed/ 0 http://www.karensgardentips.com/growing-garden-plants/how-to-make-garden-stakes-that-will-last-forever/ http://www.karensgardentips.com/growing-garden-plants/how-to-make-garden-stakes-that-will-last-forever/#comments Thu, 07 Apr 2011 09:00:50 +0000 Chuck http://www.karensgardentips.com/?p=11495 Read 'How to make Garden Stakes that will last forever' at http://www.KarensGardenTips.com.

Many years ago in our Annapolis garden we used wooden stakes to keep plants orderly and standing upright. However, the stakes only lasted one season because the termites ate the bottoms off them so quickly. After going through several years of replacing the [...]]]> http://www.karensgardentips.com/growing-garden-plants/how-to-make-garden-stakes-that-will-last-forever/feed/ 0 http://www.karensgardentips.com/growing-garden-plants/winterizing-plants-using-anti-transpirants-to-prevent-water-loss/ http://www.karensgardentips.com/growing-garden-plants/winterizing-plants-using-anti-transpirants-to-prevent-water-loss/#comments Thu, 06 Jan 2011 13:47:22 +0000 Chuck http://www.karensgardentips.com/?p=9658 Read 'Winterizing Plants: Using Anti-Transpirants To Prevent Water Loss' at http://www.KarensGardenTips.com.

In our North Carolina formal garden we grow boxwood plants in large concrete pots. Although these plants are hardy in this geographic area they are susceptible to winter damage when we have windy, below freezing temperatures for an extended period of time. Under these [...]]]> http://www.karensgardentips.com/growing-garden-plants/winterizing-plants-using-anti-transpirants-to-prevent-water-loss/feed/ 0 http://www.karensgardentips.com/growing-garden-plants/mulch/how-to-select-the-right-mulch/ http://www.karensgardentips.com/growing-garden-plants/mulch/how-to-select-the-right-mulch/#comments Thu, 18 Nov 2010 10:00:24 +0000 Karen http://www.karensgardentips.com/?p=8714 Read 'How to Select the Right Mulch' at http://www.KarensGardenTips.com.

There are many reasons to use mulch and many kinds of mulch from which to choose. The mulch you select should be related to the purpose(s) you have in mind so identifying the reason you are mulching is important in finding the one that suits you [...]]]> http://www.karensgardentips.com/growing-garden-plants/mulch/how-to-select-the-right-mulch/feed/ 2 http://www.karensgardentips.com/growing-garden-plants/deadheading/shearing-plants-for-rebloom/ http://www.karensgardentips.com/growing-garden-plants/deadheading/shearing-plants-for-rebloom/#comments Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:23:13 +0000 Karen http://www.karensgardentips.com/?p=6709 Read 'Shearing Plants for Rebloom' at http://www.KarensGardenTips.com.

Read 'Shearing Plants for Rebloom' at http://www.KarensGardenTips.com. Any plant growing in my garden has to earn its keep. Some bloom for a long time, some have beautiful foliage after the flowers fade, others disappear entirely after blooming and can be planted over, and still others will grow fresh foliage and rebloom if I shear them [...]]]> http://www.karensgardentips.com/growing-garden-plants/deadheading/shearing-plants-for-rebloom/feed/ 0 http://www.karensgardentips.com/growing-garden-plants/deadheading/how-and-what-to-deadhead-to-prolong-bloom/ http://www.karensgardentips.com/growing-garden-plants/deadheading/how-and-what-to-deadhead-to-prolong-bloom/#comments Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:43:30 +0000 Karen http://www.karensgardentips.com/?p=6624 Read 'How and What to Deadhead to Prolong Bloom' at http://www.KarensGardenTips.com.

Many gardeners find deadhead a boring, mundane job but I always like it. It gives me the opportunity to enjoy plant plants close up, touch them, smell them, and inspect them for diseases or pests. If I do a little everyday, the job is [...]]]> http://www.karensgardentips.com/growing-garden-plants/deadheading/how-and-what-to-deadhead-to-prolong-bloom/feed/ 4 http://www.karensgardentips.com/growing-garden-plants/garden-pests-diseases/facts-about-thrips-that-eat-roses/ http://www.karensgardentips.com/growing-garden-plants/garden-pests-diseases/facts-about-thrips-that-eat-roses/#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:24:32 +0000 Karen http://www.karensgardentips.com/?p=6449 Read 'Facts about Thrips that Eat Roses' at http://www.KarensGardenTips.com.

There are many different kinds of thrips; some are beneficial (can you believe it?) others are not, and this post is only on the destructive kinds, that feast on rose flowers. These same thrips hurt many other plants such as impatiens, petunias, members of the cucumber [...]]]> http://www.karensgardentips.com/growing-garden-plants/garden-pests-diseases/facts-about-thrips-that-eat-roses/feed/ 0 http://www.karensgardentips.com/growing-garden-plants/how-to-rotate-crops-in-the-home-vegetable-garden/ http://www.karensgardentips.com/growing-garden-plants/how-to-rotate-crops-in-the-home-vegetable-garden/#comments Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:07:55 +0000 Karen http://www.karensgardentips.com/?p=5678 Read 'How to Rotate Crops in the Home Vegetable Garden' at http://www.KarensGardenTips.com.

As you begin to plan your vegetable garden consider the importance of crop rotation; that is, the growing of related plants in different areas of the garden in a cyclical pattern over a 3-4 year period. Because most backyard farmers have space limitations [...]]]> http://www.karensgardentips.com/growing-garden-plants/how-to-rotate-crops-in-the-home-vegetable-garden/feed/ 3