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If it's aged 4+ months it should not be too hard on your flowers, as long as it is used with some restraint. I wouldn't worry as much about them as about using it around woody plants anyhow, since if you screw up an annual then oh well and if you screw up a perennial it will still probably...

Another option for freezing it is to leave the cheese and pine nuts out (they are never quite the same after freezing...), just put the basil and olive oil and garlic into your food processor or blender and freeze THAT. Then you have more flexibility -- it can be thawed and have cheese and pine...

Oh absolutely, it's GREAT on the garden! If the tank wasn't too skanky when you did the water change, it's good for houseplants too. Pat

The ones I've grown have never gotten tall enough to seriously need staking. I don't know how much there is in the way of different varieties out there, tho. When to harvest depends on how ripe you want them. For salsas, me, I prefer them on the green side of yellow; as they mature and get...

The only problem they can cause is if they're so close to your house that they try to overwinter in your walls (which is annoying in the spring when they all pile *out* of the walls and you've got lost boxelder bugs wandering all over your living room -- like what cluster flies and ladybugs and...

Are you sure it isn't a simpler explanation -- insufficient nitrogen for the corn's needs? Corn is a VERY heavy consumer of nitrogen and what's sufficient for other kinds of plants often isn't for corn. Pat

I have a few. I keep meaning to put the bulblets in jars of pickles or something, but thus far haven't. I do value them greatly as perennial and very weather-tolerant green onions. They're sometimes too 'hot' for me to want to eat raw that way but mostly I use green onions (scallions) cooked...

Me too!! :lol: Pat

Just cuz garden centers sell something as a transplant doesn't mean it necessarily does well that way. Corn is not renowned for its transplanting abilities -- not that it *can't* be transplanted but it need to be treated very very carefully and will probably never be as healthy as if it had been...

...although, at the same time, if only I could remember NOW (or moreso next month and August) what it feels like in late February, with the air all crisp and cold and it feels *good* to sit in a sunbeam ;) (Me too, though. I seem utterly unable to really remember what other seasons are like. I...

Except for the "new growth is palmated like moose antlers" (unless you just mean the developing needles at the growing points are curled) it sounds to me pretty much like dawn redwood, Metasequoia glyptosomethingorother. There are a considerable number of them planted in the Philly area (which...

Hey, that's cool! I've never seen them sold green but then I can't say I've ever really LOOKED either come to think of it! :) Pat

Yeah I know, however what REALISTICALLY happens here is either "forget to pull the bulb, it's gone forever by springtime"; or "pull the bulb, store it overwinter in a spot where rats or voles eat it"; or "pull the bulb, store it overwinter in a spot where I forget totally about it and both it...

Never too late to plant them if they are purchased potted-and-growing, although they take more care when planted in hotter weather with larger am'ts of foliage already grown. Asparagus, though, is almost always sold bareroot and any that are still *available* bareroot right now are almost...

Need to know what zone you are, preferably also what geographic area? Also, I'm unsure from your description, is this a conifer we're talking about, not a broadleaf evergreen? Pat

Technically yes, but taste some first to see if you *want* to, it gets bitter. Pat

Inquiring 6-yr-old-son minds want to know :P All I could think of was perennial blue flax. What else opens at dawn-ish and is over by afternoon? Are morning glories finished that early? I haven't grown them for years and years and years, don't remember. Pat

Yup, so there ya go! :) <high-fives Steve> Thanks for finding it Steve. Alas (not surprisingly) google-consensus seems to be that it's only hardy to zones 7 or 8, doesn't do ME any good LOL Pat

Is this for the damp clayey meadow referred to in your other thread? If so, it will depend a whole big lot on HOW damp, and also depend on how wet it is in late winter early spring in particular. If it is only "kinda" clayey and "kinda" damp, you might be able to grow some selected varieties of...

Google "Selaginella" and see if you find anything looking close enough? Pat