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Gardening Tips Weekly (August 04, 2019)

This daylily is so gorgeous. Add some to your garden.

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Today's Featured Post

Tiger Daylily

By Judy

Tiger Daylily - orange multitiered daylilyThese beautiful flowers come back every year. They have three tiers, which make them more unusual than others. I never tire of looking at them.

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Cable Ties for Supporting Plants

By Judy

Cable Ties for Supporting PlantsWhen garden plants start to produce, they need extra support. Cable ties are great. They come in many sizes and are inexpensive. You can tie them to a plant stake, another part of the plant, or a fence. At the end of the season, just cut them and dispose of.

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Yellow Sticky Traps for Flying Insects

By 15mhhm15

Yellow Sticky Traps for Flying Insects - insects stuck to yellow sticky paperI have many household plants throughout my home. I used indoor soil for these plants and didn't think there would be any flying insects. My friend introduced me to these yellow sticky traps (she actually gave me a handful). They are rather large double sided sticky traps so I cut them down in smaller pieces and placed them into my potted plants. A few hours later, the traps are already working!

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Maintenance Pruning For Wisteria Standard

By likekinds

Maintenance Pruning For Wisteria Standard - standard wisteriaAs is everything else, the wisteria is a program. This program make a wisteria vine. (Technically, wisteria is a bine, not a vine, and of course this program expresses itself as a bine).

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Blanching Veggies

By Ana

Blanching Veggies - slices of zucchini and yellow squashOur garden is producing very well this year! To keep up with production we decided to make our own frozen veggies. This is a great way to get fresh and frozen at the same time, with just a few steps.

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Co-joined Rudbeckia Flower - Fasciation

By R Barbara

Co-joined Rudbeckia FlowerI found this unusual beauty in my flower garden mixed in with the rest of the typical rudbeckia blooms.

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Protecting Delicate Blooms from Summer Heat

By michele

Protecting Delicate Blooms from Summer Heat - patio umbrella over lilies
During these massive heat waves, don't let your flowers wilt and die. Use a patio umbrella to protect them. My spider lilies were wilted and dying from 103 heat (1st picture bottom left.) I gave them some extra water and used a patio umbrella to protect them and it brought them back to their beauty.

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Purple Wandering Jew

By littergitter

A purple Wandering Jew in a tricycle themed planter.You don't have to have a green thumb to grow Wandering Jew. I purchased this plant from Walmart in April. I have thinned it several times. I made a hanging basket and gave it to a friend, added a few sprigs around my Lantana plant and also pitched it over the deck railing behind a bush just to get rid of it. That little bit took root and it is spreading.

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Give Living Gifts

By likekinds

A cutting of forsythia with roots, ready for planting.I wouldn't doubt that many of you have forsythia. I have the Lynwood Gold hybrid. Now is a good time to root cuttings for giving to friends and relatives. They are so easy to root, they will root most anywhere, under most conditions, even in a glass of water.

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Asian Lady Beetle

By Jess (TF Editor)

An Asian ladybug larvae on a leaf.I found these creepy little bugs in various states of growth on a rosebush near my front door. I first noticed them when I saw brown spots on a nearby plant. A quick Google search showed me that they are Asian lady beetle larvae. This invasive species has pushed out the native ladybugs throughout North America.

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