Getting Rid of Ground Dwelling Bees?
These bees are called solitary bees, they will stay in your garden only a few weeks. Let them live ! They are the alternative to the honeybees that are dying from pesticides all over your country and unfortunately all over the world. They are not agressive...
Thrifty Regrets
Being one of the first 10 who started working on the EuroDisneys project for its manager, the anglo american team (Lehrer Mc Govern and Bovis) , I can tell you this : the frustration the customer feels because he cant visit each Disneywords land or attraction...
Thrifty Regrets
Family vacations consisted of simple tenting for a few days and, when money was tight, many of our vacations were just one day excursions. I have been offered by my parents the same Disneyworld and I could say thank you to them every minute of my life. I went...
Thrifty Regrets
Do not have any regrets. What you give your children comes from your heart. Do not underestimate it because someone has given it to you before and you are passing it on to your children. Disneyland does not come from someones heart it comes from someones ambition...
Identifying a Houseplant? (Peperomia)
Hello ! the name of the plant you refer to is Schefflera. It is a beautiul plant but it cant be the one we are trying to identify because its leaves are palmately compound.
Using Red Pepper in Homemade Suet?
Hello ! Actually what is sold as Cayenne pepper is not made with peper it is a mixture of ingredients including piment, most of the time it is piment, flour and salt. Piment is a member of the Capsicum annuum family and is usually produced in Central and South...
What Is Growing in My Easter Lily Pot?
Hello ! It is only fungi and it is not dangerous for the plant. Fungi need moisture and darkness to start growing. You could water less, scratch the soil surface to air it and bring the plant in full sunlight where Easter lily can grow. If the plant is in half...
What Are These Houseplants?
Hello ! The two are sedum, the bigger one could be Sedum spurium (dragons blood) and the light green one could be Sedum morganianum. Depending on how much sunlight they received the color and shape of the same sedum can vary to very light green to deep green...
Using Coffee Grounds on House Plants?
Coffee ground is coffee beans (seeds) that have been roasted, not roasted to the point of turning into coal but still roasted enough to resist decomposing just like wood coal doesnt decompose. It is better to leave it on the ground when used with plants. It...
Sorting Buttons or Beads
So did I went Huh ? Linda ! but I I think it is just a confusion in the title between verbs sorting and storing, still it is very useful as two jars on top of each other take less room than two jars side by side. It is a good trick and it is important to think...
What Is This Houseplant?
I agree with Cybergrannie it is an ornemental ivy I think it is Hedera helix sagittifolia called sagittifolia because of the arrow shape of the central and longest part of its leave.
Identifying a Houseplant?
I agree with Cybernannie it is a philodendron and I am quite sure it is Philodendron hederaceum = Philodendron oxycardium, = Philodendron scandens = Philodendron cordatum, 4 different names for the same plant. It is a climbing philodendron and if given a foam...
Count Cash Before Inserting into ATM
Malfunction of an ATM can have very expensive consequences and if youre going on holidays, especially abroad, avoid using your card during the last few days or even worse on the very day you go, at the last minute on your way to the airport, for example. If...
Remedy for Mealybugs on Plants
You can also buy and protect mealybugs best ennemy : Cryptolaemus Montrouzieri, safe for the bees and safe for the plants. This black and orange tiny insect feeds on mealybugs.
Identifying a Garden Plant?
Hello ! You have been given the Queen of the night : Epiphyllum oxypetalum. It needs a lot of light and warmth and moist but absolutely NO direct sunlight. It flowers only at night time and the flowers appear and die in the same night. It is one of the most...
Identifying a Green Flying Bug?
Why should you : first surely break at least one of its legs or wings and then suffocate the bug in a plastic bag ? Internet and thriftyfun fans are powerful enough to help indentify a bug.
Grow Grapes On Your Patio/Deck/Back Yard
There is a limit to the use of nets. Nets should be used against birds once the fruits are there on the branches. Otherwise if you set the nets too early the result is : no insect to visit flowers, no pollination, no fruits. And the pollination starts much...
Old Deck Railing Used For Garden Tool Storage
I like this idea. There is not much to do and not a lot of holes to make in the wall to fix it and for the smaller tools it could be set upside down to use each bar as a rack. Thanks for the idea.
What Is This Houseplant?
I think it is a Dracaena, and it looks like a dracaena godseffiana or dracaena surculosa.
Crush Egg Shells With a Rolling Pin
I use an electric coffee grinder, it does not damage it on the contrary it sharpens its blades. I use egg shells in fine powder for the plants to assimilate calcium and the others ingredients of the shell quicker. Egg shells fine powder is also very useful...
Crush Egg Shells With a Rolling Pin
Actually the veterinary products used for dogs against arthritis and joint problems are made from the egg shell membrane, not the shell itself. I think it could be better to first ask a vet before giving egg shells powder to a dog.
Crush Egg Shells With a Rolling Pin
I could not agree more ! I have another method for stress relief. When I want egg shells to be just crunched or to ease the work of my old electric coffee grinder I put the egg shells inside the double page of a newspaper and I walk on the newspaper. Very pleasing...
Slowing Down Morning Glory Infestation
I agree with you and I wish to add that roundup does not kill bees only, it kills others insects too and the birds that will eat the insects or any other animal that eats insects and also the gardener who uses the roundup or that will end up eating products...
Reusing Spray Bottles
I used the spray bottle system when I have to empty something that cant be moved or be reached to the bottom. I tie a plastic bag to the nose of the spray system or put a bottle in front of it and plunge the plastic tube in the liquid I want to remove and activate...
Identifying a Houseplant?
It is an epiphyllum which is desperately craving for light. Whatever kind of epiphyllum it is, quickly check for its special cares and put it in full light with no direct sunlight. The long hairy shoots are the proof that it is craving for light. These kind...
Container Gardening and Mosquitoes in Standing Water?
Hello ! Vegetable oil works because when the larvae reach the surface to breath or to mute into actual flying mosquito they cant do so because they are, sort of, glued and suffocated by the oil, but the problem is that you need to put quite a lot of oil to...
Identifying and Caring for a Houseplant?
Hello ! You could try to lightly rub one of the leaves and check if it gives out a strong smell of camphor, if it does the plant could be a member of the plectranthus family.
Help for Hot Flashes?
Hello ! you can start getting used to Scottish shower, that is to always end your hot shower or bath with a very cold shower, starting from your feet up to your face and even to your skull. The action of Scottish shower is that it trains your body to better...
Starting Seeds in the Snow
I know snow is an excellent thermal insulator because it contains a large amount of air and that white bears dig shelters deep in the snow to protect themselves. This method could work in a region where snow falls and stays for the whole winter but in a region...
What Is This Houseplant?
Dracaena not yucca. Yucca leaves do not curve they bend at right angle and are dark green with very sharp edges. When in good state they can easily cut skin if you touch the leaves edge from point to bottom. The yucca leaves stay tight around the trunk pointing...
What Is This Houseplant?
If you think of a poor Yucca kept indoors you could think it looks like a Yucca but take a look at this picture of the most common type of Yucca to live outdoors with its beautiful flowers and strong dark green leaves. (picture by Moriori ' Originally uploaded...
What Is This Garden Plant? (Lychnia or Silene coronaria) - Rose campion
Hello ! The official name of the plant is lychnis coronaria, it is very beautiful when you can put next to each other the three different type with white flowers, pink flowers and red flowers.
Protect Paint Brushes With a Straw
Fantastic idea ! Ive wasted so many paint brushes by letting them stand upright on the brush party to dry. Thank for sharing.
Age and Value of New Book of Knowledge?
Hello ! you can find an exemple of price on Amazon for the 10 volumes you own. Hope this helps ! https://www.amazon.co.uk/Knowledge-Pictorial-Treasury-reading-Reference/dp/B000PW281M/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1485262291&sr=1-2&keywords=the+new+book+of...
What is This Houseplant?
It is a Yucca and you can plant it outside, it resists winter easily and even temperatures below 0°. When grown outside it flowers every year, when it is difficult to make it flower indoors.
What Is This Houseplant?
Hello ! It is a calathea, this one is calathea insignis, it needs warmth, moist, but must never be in direct sunlight as it lives at the ground level of the rainforests where the sky is nearly always cloudy and where the big trees protect it from direct sunlight...
Identifying a Houseplant?
I agree it is a Philodendron Selloum, it is easy to grow and it does become very large, what is nice is that it lives many years. Be careful with cats it is toxic.
Identifying a Houseplant? (Schefflera)
It is beautiful, and I agree it is a heptaleurum brassaia. It grows up straight up because it is, in fact, a tree. In its native country (Australia) it can be 30 meters high. You can prune it to give it a more bushy shape.
What Is This Plant?
Hello ! Its scientific name is Gomphocarpus physocarpus, also called Asclepias physocarpa, popular name balloonplant
What Kind of Geranium Is This?
Hello ! it is a Pelargonium (= geranium) Apple Blossom Rosebud The flowers can be pink or white and pink or red like yours which is beautiful.
What Is This Houseplant?
Hello ! It is an Epiphyllum oxypetalum. When it is receiving enough light it does not produce long cylindrical stems. In its native place, the rain forests, it grows in trees hollows. Rain forests mean : warmth, a lot of humidity in the air, and cloudy sky...
What Is This Houseplant?
Hello ! It is a calathea, possibly it is a calathea rufibarba. No direct sun, warmth and moist. You can check the cares for calathea in general, they all need the same conditions and cares.
What Is This Houseplant?
If its a palm, and I agree it could be a parlour palm ( scientific name : Chamaedorea elegans or Neanthe bella or Collinia elegans) but whatever type of palm it is, the drying and dying of its lower leaves is its natural way to grow. The reliefs you see on...
What Is This Houseplant?
Yucca it is ! It is easier to grow this kind of shoot than the actual plant with a trunk because it is difficult to evaluate how much water is kept in the trunk and very often it will get overwatered and, when you notice it, it is already rotten.
Getting Rid of Aphids on Four O'Clock Flowers?
Plants do not die from aphids invasion but I understand it is ugly to look at, specially when they invade beautiful flowers like yours. I never use any chemicals. I used two simple methods, killed them by hands on small plants and never grow one type of plant...
Getting Rid of Aphids on Four O'Clock Flowers?
Hello again ! If you want to have new Four oclock flowers (Mirabilis jalapata), you can collect the seeds, or dig one of its tubers. Grown from seeds or not, Mirabilis japata develops big tubers, which looks like black radishes, you can dig a few, and put them...
What Is This Plant?
Hello ! If the flowers were trumpet shaped looking up, it is a Datura and it is a plant. If the flowers are trumpet shaped and looking down or at the most horizontal, it is a Brugsmania and it is a tree. Datura or Brugsmania should not be put indoors, the two...
Identifying a Houseplant?
Me again ! maybe it is not the obtusifolia type because the leaves of your plant are pointed so it could be Peperomia polybotrya (pericatii).
What Is This Houseplant?
Hello ! I am not sure that the little pink spot on the left side of the picture is a flower but if it is, it looks like Aptenia cordifolia Variegata, also called the heartleaf ice plant, but the Aptenia is placed indoor only when it is very cold outside. It...
Effects Of Pollen Transfer Between...
The potato famine in Irland is due to inapropriate agricultural practices and the ravages of fungus Phytophthora infestans known as late blight. All Europe was concerned but the fact that this invasion had more dramatic results in Ireland than in the rest of...
Taking Photos to Publish on ThriftyFun
It would be very useful when posting a photo of a plant, for its identification, to put an object, which size is known to everyone, like a pen for example, side by side to a leaf or a branch of the plant, to give a scale.
What Is This Houseplant?
Hello ! It is an hoya, this one is a cultivar and is most often called hoya carnosa krinkle kurl, or Hindu rope, it was obtain from the hoya carnosa which leaves are flat, but the name doesnt matter it is an hoya and you will find the cares it needs by looking...
Hydrangeas Not Flowering?
Hello ! It could be due to the way you pruned them. Pruning an hydrangea is not easy. It has to be done at the end of the winter season. You should first cut the dead flowers but just above the new bud, that is the important point, because the flowers appears...
Bugs Eating Daylilies?
Bad news ! they are more famous for finding shelter in great numbers inside houses during the winter than for any damage they do to plants. They are Boisea trivittata, Boxelder bugs, they are attracted by some trees including, the box elder tree, the female...
What Is This Houseplant?
Its an hoya, known as the was plant, in this case it is the curled leaf hoya.
Kenmore 24 Sewing Machine Not Stitching?
Hello ! Maybe you could check the new needle. It could be split opened but it does not show.
Bobbin Thread Not Being Picked Up?
Hello ! You could first unplug the machine, then open the bobbin case, turn the wheel by hand and watch carefully the movement of the needle and how deep it goes to catch the thread loop, and where is the bobbin thread when the needle goes down. If you do not...
What Is This Garden Plant?
I agree it is castorbean : scientific name Ricinus communis, it is a beautiful plant but extremely allergenic and with many toxic parts. You have to be careful with its beautiful seeds, often used to make nakelaces, four to eight seed are lethal for adults...
Plant Matchsticks with Peppers
Hello ! Matches could provide Pepper plant with something it needs to grow but if you use the traditionnal household safety matches it cant be phosphorus. The tips of the matches used to be made with phosphorus but were dangerous for the users and for the health...
What Is This Houseplant?
Hello ! It is difficult to say because I cant tell the size of its leaves from the picture but It could be an oleander and if it is, you should keep it outdoors, as it is highly toxic. During the cold season keep it in a place where you do not stay for a long...
What Is This Garden Plant?
I agree it is toxic but it is not the moonflower (iponomea alba) it is a Datura stramonium. The flower could be mistaken but not the fruits. The moonflower ( iponomea alba ) doesnt have this kind of spiky fruits and the leaves of the moonflower are hart shaped...
Identifying a Houseplant?
I think it is a Dieffenbachia. It naturally loses its inferior leaves and it has to be cut back so that it will not end up with a nude trunk and a few leaves at the top. Keep it away from children and pets the sap is very toxic.
What Is This Houseplant?
It is a Begonia, Begonia Erythrophylla. It is easy to grow indoors if you are careful with watering and if you give the plant a rest in the winter. It is a tropical plant.
Remove Tomato Suckers
Tomato suckers have to be removed but all you need is : . a pair of scisors to do neat cuttings . alcool to clean the scisors when you go from one plant to another . a very sunny day at midday with plenty of sun light on the plants to dry the cuts you make...
Mantis Watches Jumping Spider Eat...
It is a fantastic photo theres a real scenario in there and it makes me think of the little stop motion animation films called Minuscule like this one : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peIddlqyTeg
What Is This Houseplant?
The purple plant is alright. It is a Tradescantia pallida a very resistant plant and perfect as a hanging plant. Its colors depend on how much light it receives It likes to be kept tight in its pot, do not water a little everyday but a lot every two weeks during...
What Is This Houseplant?
Hello ! It is a Pachira, Pachira aquatica and it doesnt need to be plaited to live happy.
Identifying a Houseplant?
They are ferns the first one is Asplenium nidus the second one is a Davallia. They need light but never any direct sun light.
Identifying a Houseplant?
1 : Kalanchoe marmorata 2 : ? if that top new leaf is slightly pink it could be a (not really fit) poinsettia 3 : Yucca, possibly Yucca aloifolia or Yucca baccata 4 : Kalanchoe daigremontiana Hope this helps ! Catherine
Saving Mallard Eggs After Mother Died?
To quickly improvise an incubator, you need a large carton or styrofoam box, two wired light bulbs one of 40 W and one of 100 W and a thermometer and if possible an hygrometer. Cut a square in one of the side of the box and glue or stick a piece of clear plastic...
Hibiscus Won't Flower?
Maybe you gave the plant too much fertilizer that is why it is making constant new growth. Flowering for a plant is a tentative to survive and if your plant has such a happy life with plenty to eat why should it bother to have flowers. Just put it on the diet...
Identifying a House Plant?
Hello ! it is a Dracaena fragrans. It could be the Warneckii or the lindenii type. They prefer light shade or filtered sunlight. Their situation and the age of the plant can change the colours and the pattern of the leaves.
Identifying a House Plant?
It is a dracaena (cordyline) and it could be the Dracaena reflexa type also called Song of India or Pleomele reflexa. It is difficult to say which type of dracaena it is because the colours and the pattern of the leaves change with the amount of light it receives...
Buy Named Varieties Of Trees and Shrubs
You cant complain about the number of seeds in the pack. You would be answered that there is no cheating as the weigth is written on the pack : 1,25 g. You could only argue that it doesnt precise weither or not the weight of the paper pack is included in the...
What Is This Garden Plant?
I think it is bleeding harts (dicentra spectabilis). The foliage looks like bleeding hearts. The columbine (Aquilegia) leaves are not pointed and they are not deeply cut they have a round shape a bit like shamrock and columbine does not have this bush aspect...
What Is This Houseplant?
Hello ! I am not quite sure but it could be a Pearcea hypocyrtiflora. Hope this helps !
Tropical Fern With Cactus Flower
Hello ! If you want your epiphyllum oxypetalum to really thrive as it should in the climate of Tahiti you must forget you found it next to a fern. Unlike ferns the epiphyllum oxypetalum needs full light not direct sunlight if you want the leaves to keep their...
Taking Turmeric as a Supplement?
You are absolutely right and the doctor is not only the solution but also the secret. I am always impressed by the fact that so many miracle products comes from and are used by the traditionnal medecine of countries with the lowest average life expectancy. I...
Identifying Dying Plant?
Hello ! It is an Impatiens walleriana its common name is buzzy lizzy. It doesnt look as it is dying. It needs light, warmth, and to be watered regularily. Google its name for more care instructions. Hope this helps !
Looking for a Needlepoint Pattern?
Hello ! I think the poem is written using the police Comic Sans MS in upper case for the title. You can type the poem using this police and then make it the size you need. You can print it and transfer it with carbon paper on the material. This police is available...
What Is This Houseplant?
Hello ! It is a dracaena fragrans. It is toxic to cats but as they do not need full light you can choose a place where your cat can not reach the leaves.
What Are These Houseplants?
Hello ! The tall fluffy plant is an asparagus, the one on the left could be an Aeonium Haworthii and the one with yellow and green leaves looks like an Aucuba. You should quickly seperate them as they are of very different types with incompatibles needs to...
Identifying a Houseplant?
It is a scindapsus also called pothos or golden pothos. Beautiful and easy to grow.
What Is This Houseplant?
Hello ! If it is a spider plant you should keep it indoors as by the picture it looks like it is winter in your place or at least much too cold for a plant that originates from South Africa. Many plant are called Spider plant the scientific name of this one...
What Is This Houseplant?
It could be a pothos. Pothos leaves can be plain green. It should be kept away from direct light.
Yellow Rose (Lady Or Playboy)
Hello ! Flower production is a big business and rose production is a big part of it. The rights and interests of the producers are protected by patents and registration of trademark name. Roses varieties are patented. Lady Elsie May is the name of a patented...
Drown Ants Nesting In Potted Plants
Hello ! To take good care of the Aglaonema it is better to forget its surname Chinese evergreen. China will not make you think of the constant warmth and the very high humidity rate of the country Aglaonema comes from that is the tropical forest of South America...
Look For Two Plants In One Pot
I agree with you about people wanting an instant beautiful display and I would agree with you that garden centers could not sell so many plants and so easily if they were selling plants not yet nice to look at but that will live on for many years becoming more...
Spray Nozzle for Dish Soap Container
The first thing I do when I buy dish soap is to empty half of the bottle and save it into another bottle, then I fill the bottle up again with water. You are on a safer side because it is easier to rinse than the pure product, and it is important for your health...
What Is This Houseplant?
It is difficult to say but it looks like a sick Dieffenbachia and if it is keep it out of reach of children or pets all parts being poisonous.
What Is This Houseplant?
Hello ! I think it is Euonymus japonicus Luna and in this case it is an outdoor plant. But it can be a sunny star croton and in this case it is an indoor plant. Hope this helps ! Catherine
What Is This Houseplant?
Hello ! It is a pink bromeliad. It is the same family as the pineapple : the bromeliaceae family. Google its scientific name Aechmea fasciata for information about its special cares. Hope this helps Catherine
What Is This House Plant?
Hello ! It is a philodendrum and I think this one is the philodendrum xanadu. Beautiful ! Catherine
Growing an Avocado Plant?
Hello ! Dont worry an avocado is a tree and it will start new branches from its trunk. Some people pinch or cut the top of the avocado shoot at a very early stage of its growth so that it will start new branches and get stronger. You too would have had to cut...
What Is This Houseplant?
Hello ! It is an Hoya, possibly Hoya carnosa. The flowers are incredibly fragrant. It can be capricious for blooming. You beautifully succeeded the growing step and I hope you will soon be rewarded with many flowers and their powerful scent that reminds chocolate...
Needle Does Not Move on Sewing Machine?
Maybe you have already checked but it is possible that the machine has been left ready to thread a bobbin. Not all machines have the same way to get the hand wheel in position to thread a bobbin and stop the movement of the needle. For some machines you have...
What Is This Garden Plant?
If you are asking about the plants in the background they are palms some are date palms others may be yuccas. If you are talking about the grass in the foreground it is not possible to tell from the picture.
Singer 449 Not Picking Up Bottom Thread?
To keep your machine working properly you must always pull out the thread of the bobbin by hand and place it with the upper thread under the foot and behind the foot before you start sewing. To catch the bobbin thread you move the hand wheel by hand to let...
What Is This Houseplant? (Ficus)
Hello ! I think it is a bunch of shoots of ficus benjamina. Cut a leave and if you see white sap it is a ficus benjamina.
Singer Sewing Machine Not Stitching Properly?
When thread is bunching underneath the fabric it is usually a problem of tension balance. The upper thread doesnt go down enough. Reduce the tension on the needle thread by putting the tension knob on an average tension level. There is also a little screw on...
Identifying a Ladybug Type Beetle?
Hello ! Indeed, it is Harmonia axyridis the asian ladybug. They do eat aphids but unfortunately they also eat the larvae of the indigenous species of ladybugs. It is now considered one of the worlds most invasive insect. They have been released to control aphids...
What Is This House Plant?
Hello ! It looks like a tradescantia. Their colours depend on how much sunlight they get.
What Is This House Plant?
It could be a spathiphyllum wallisii or an anthurium. In any case you can put a bit less water, like only up to the brown part, and add a piece of wood coal (the type you use for a barbecue) it will keep the water clear and avoid the rotting of the plant. Hope...
What Is This Houseplant? (Calathea)
It is a Calathea and this one is Calathea Rosea Picta. It is a tropical rain forest plant.
What Is This Houseplant?
Hello : It is the ZeeZee or Z Z plant. Its scientific name is Zamioculcas zamiifolia.
What Is This Houseplant?
Hello ! It is an hoya carnosa tricolor. One of the most fragrant flower when it does bloom ... Hope this helps !
What Is This Houseplant?
Hello ! I think it is a Kalanchoe beharensis. In its home place it can be more than 4 meters high with a real trunk. Hope this helps ! Catherine
What Is This Houseplant?
Hello ! I am sure what you think is fungus is just aphids so happy to find something green to eat at this time of the year. Yes ! aphids indoors I am dealing with them at the moment. Take a magnifier and you will see that they are aphids very common on kalanchoe...
What Is This Houseplant?
Hello ! It is a Rhipsalis, it is not easy to say which one from the picture but it could be a Rhipsalis cassutha or a Rhipsalis baccifera subsp. horrida. Some Rhipsalis are a bit hairy some are light green others darker green but all are incredibly resistant...
Prescription Bottles for Storing Flower Seeds
Hello ! Do you first get rid of the dessicant which is sometimes hidden in the topper of the medication container ? I always do as I fear it could dry the seeds so much that they could end up being sterile.
Can't Wind Bobbin on Kenmore Ultra Stitch 10?
I think you could try first to read the oiling the machine paragraph of the user manual and once you have oiled the machine you could ask someone else to try to hold the hand wheel while turning the clutch because maybe you do not put enough strength being...
What Is This Houseplant?
Hello ! It is a philodendron monstera and if you take care of it it will be with you for many years and will become very large and spectacular. Catherine
What Are These Houseplants? (Kalanchoe)
When Denise writes thick rubbery leaves she writes about the pink flower plant. About the white flower plant she writes kind of thick leaves. Kalanchoe leaves are waxy when African violet leaves are hairy.
What Are These Houseplants? (Kalanchoe)
I dont think it can be a Gloxinia because the leaves of a Gloxinia are hairy and not thick and shiny and their flowers are very large and cup shaped. The pink flowers on the picture are not more than 3 or 4 milimiters. Gloxinia are beautiful but rarely used...
What Is This Houseplant? (Peperomia)
Hello ! The plant looks like a Peperomia incana and if thats what it is it could be loosing its leaves because it is not a climber but rather a rampant. You can cut a portion and put it to root in a vase keeping it just above the water surface the same way...
Kenmore Sewing Machine Repair Videos?
Hello ! The threading diagram you can see on this page : http://www.sewusa.com/Threading_Diagrams/Threading_Pages/Kenmore_Sewing_Machine_Threading/kenmore_ultra_stitch_6_8_12_threading_diagram.htm includes instruction diagrams to adjust top thread tension and...
Kenmore Sewing Machine Repair Videos?
Hello ! The threading instructions diagrams you can find on this page : http://www.sewusa.com/Threading_Diagrams/Threading_Pages/Kenmore_Sewing_Machine_Threading/kenmore_ultra_stitch_6_8_12_threading_diagram.htm includes the adjusting top thread tension and...
What Is This Houseplant?
Hello ! I think it is a Peperomia obtusifolia. It should not be growing such long branches with so few leaves, it seems to be reaching for more light. You should repot it as Marty said or change the soil and you could try to move it to a window facing south...
Identifying Garden Plants and Trees?
Hello ! It is a Loquat (Eriobotrya japonica). It gives orange fruits with a big shiny seed inside the fruits are juicy and refreshing not very tasty but the tree is beautiful and very resistant. Catherine
Identifying Garden Plants and Trees?
Hello ! It is a Loquat (Eriobotrya japonica). The fruits are orange juicy and refreshing, not very tasty with a big shiny seed inside but the tree is beautiful all year round and very resistant.
Cutting Styrofoam for Fitting on an Armature?
Hello ! I use hacksaw blades to cut styrofoam and it works well even when using the cheapest type of blades. If you do not have time to go and buy them you can try a sawtooth bread knife. Hope this helps ! Catherine
What Is This Houseplant?
Hello ! It is Ledebouria socialis - Scilla violacea. The leaves are more beautiful than the flowers but the flowers are a sign of its good health and they make a beautiful contrast with the leaves. I have got one but I did not take care of it and it is very...
What Is This Houseplant?
Hello ! It is Ledebouria socialis - Scilla violacea. The leaves are more beautiful than the flowers but the flowers are a sign of its good health and they make a beautiful contrast with the leaves. I have got one but I did not take care of it and it is very...
What Is This Houseplant?
Hello ! I am not sure because the leaves are not really pointed but if they are soft it could be the Dracaena fragrans 'White Stripe'. If they are thick and strong with sharp edges then Im wrong. Dracaena are usually sold as a nude trunk with a few shoots on...
What Is This Houseplant?
Its scientific name is Saintpaulias more often called African violet and I agree with Judy, drops of water on the leaves specially if it is cold water will damage the leaves. The plant doesnt like changes of temperature. It needs warmth, bright light but no...
What Is This Houseplant?
Hello ! The leaves seam too thick to be an echeveria, but it is difficult to tell because the shape and the colours of the succulent family members depend a lot on the light they receive but as the plant seam to try to grow upwards I think it could be a sedum...
What Is This Houseplant?
Hello ! Your boss could be right. The leaves look like the ones of a Sambac jasmine also called Arabian jasmine I hope you will succeed saving it as its bloom is incredibly fragrant. I have got one and it has some bad times here in my flat with a weather which...
What Is This Houseplant?
Me again ! Is it snow I see on the picture ? If it is it means that the days are short at the moment in your place so the Sambac is having a rest. It is not the time to water it and you should be careful with draft or the plant being too close to a cold window...
What Is This Houseplant?
I live in the northern suburb of Paris at 49° North, winter is not as cold as in your region but the days are very short with only 8 hours of daylight in december and the sky is very often cloudy. I had to keep the light on all day long today. My Sambac is...
Intercropping in a Maize Field?
Beans and gourds can be grown with maize, beans provide nitrogen to the two others plants, beans climb up the maize and gourd provides shade at the foot of the two others which will then need less watering. The shadow provided by the gourd will also prevent...
Growing Cucumbers in Hanging Milk Jugs?
Hello ! I think the quantity of soil will not be a problem but the type of soil could be. Cucumbers need very rich and moistured soil and more water than beans. Beans enjoy full sun when parts of cucumber plant are protected from sun light by its own leaves...
What Is This Houseplant?
Hello Dona Taormina ! I try a wild guess : Radermachera or some sort of wild clematis. Whatever the plant is the drying of the end of its leaves may be due to the dryness of the air. After all it could be an outdoor plant. You can try to put it away from heaters...
Building a Turtle Home in Your Garden
Are you looking for an excuse to keep this animal ? You said your turtle is a land turtle. No land turtle destroys rivers. The one turtle which is forbidden on the French territory, French Polynesia included, is an aquatic and carnivorous turtle, it is the...
Using Selective Weed Killers
The best weed killer is the weed killer that will not slowly kill the gardener nor his friends : birds, insects, toads, lizards...The best and safest weed killer is the gardener himself with his strenght to root out weeds once he has checked that they are not...
What Is This Houseplant?
Hello ! It is a Plectranthus. I just had to move mine closer to the ceiling because its smell is so strong it is unbearable. My Plectranthus is a Plectranthus neochilus with beautiful pink and blue flowers but a terrible smell all year round. Unfortunately...
What Type of Hoya Is This?
Hello ! You will have to wait for the first flowers to be sure but there is a good chance that it is an hoya carnosa. If your local nursery is not an hoya specialist it is quite sure that it is an hoya carnosa. It is not because it doesnt have the little silvery...
What Is This Flower Called?
Hello ! It is very difficult to tell from such a close-up photo. It could be a blue crocuce. Hope this helps !
What Is This Houseplant?
Hello ! You could brush the soil a little bit to see what is at the foot of each plant. I think it looks like a plant grown from a pit. If you find what is left of the pit maybe you could identify it. Peach tree leaves have a natural tendency to curl. Hope...
