I am looking for suggestions of what to plant in a rather large pot on my porch. I want it to be short, hardy, and bushy and if it includes blooms eventually all the better! (The pot is a mini wine barrel)
Asparagus can grow up to 10 inches in just 24 hours if the weather is warm! Bull kelp is also a fast-growing seaweed that can grow up to 2 feet per day!
I just learned that plants know what time of day it is and they use sugar signals to do so! They keep track of the time so they don't starve at night. They also need to know the time of day to know when to release scents, open flowers and just when they should spend energy to grow!
I bought a beautiful wintergreen plant this winter that had lovely red berries on it. There are a lot of crows around here and the crows have picked off every single berry! Any ideas for keeping crows away?
I used to think that sunflowers were just one flower. This is not the case. One sunflower can be made up of one to two thousand mini sunflowers and each produces its own seed!
For all you Scrabble fans:
I was playing Scrabble with my oldest daughter tonight and I got the biggest single word score ever! I got 128 points for one word which not only landed on a triple word box, but the "x" in the word landed on a triple letter box!
My daughter was the champion as...
Did y'all know that you can cook a 5 pound beef roast in a pressure cooker for 150 minutes and it comes out oh so tender! I've noticed this is true with expensive and cheap roasts. Pressure cookers can even turn a boot leather tuff steak or roast into a tender juicy piece of meat!
You've seen purple, red, white, and yellow carrots, but did you know black carrots are a thing too? They don't sound tempting do they!?
I also learned that long ago carrots were grown for their leaves and seeds and the roots were not tasty at that point. I think they wanted the leaves because...