Homeowner Forum / Lawn and Garden / June 2005

I have recently painted my room and the fumes are just barely lingering.  I
have a total of five orchids that call that particular room home and it
occurred to me as I moved them to a seperate room that a relative of mine
recently painted their entire house without moving an ...

I had about a dozen trees taken out a few years ago for a pool area.  Stumps
were ground and planted grass.  I recently had a couple other trees taken
out, but prefer not to have a machine back in that area again.  I have two
stumps that are flush with the ground.

Hi there, I am a gardening newbie but am trying to take a fairly hands
off organic approach.
A lot of the plants in my vegetable bed have masses of soft, wet foam
around their bases full of squat insects that are grey-brown with a red

I want to put a shed in the garden. Just a small one, probably about
6' by 8'. As far as I can make out such a structure would be exempt
from building control under schedule 2 - Exempt building and work. It
would appear to come under class VI - small detached buildings. The

I've now excavated my pond and I am now left with a puzzle.  Th
subsoil is almost solid clay and although I kept some of the topsoi
asside I am left with a mound which is very steep with large lumps o
clay.  What can be planted on a mound like this.  I assume the lump

I apologize if this is not the group to ask this question.  If there's a
better group, please let me know.
I'll be moving from Nebraska to California (3 days and nights on the road)
temporarily (9 months), and would like to take my house plants with me, but

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I had some new turf laid a few weeks ago and since then, I have had the
hoseppe on it for about 20 mins per day. The dog has also watered it
frequently. Now I have patches which are browny yellow and not growing as
welll as it might.

Chris Hogg Wrote:

We have just had our chimney swept (real coal fire, not smokeless fuel) and
the sweep has left us a bag of soot.
Is there any way this can be used on the garden?
Jeanne

Summer is almost on us (though it looks as though a frost is possible on
Monday) and if the forecasters are correct then it will be long and hot.
   So what waste water is or is not acceptable to the garden?  Will
soap, detergent, washing powder biological/non-biological, bath ...

I can't imagine where the flower heads went. There's no trail left
on the ground, the petals had fallen off so they weren't that pretty.
There were no seeds on it... in fact it was hit taken over by aphids
and the leaf stems kinda turned brown and started dying. What

Are these plants finiky?  I learned the hard way that they resent
transplanting.  But I would like to have some, and I want to know if the
mature plants are as difficult to care for as the babies?
Jackie in zone 7

Hello everyone, I've had a phal bellina for a few months now, I put
under lights a few months back and I've seen it go from droopy and slow
to healthy, and even growing a new leaf.
The leaves used to be a transparent color, and they just bounced back

Whens the ideal month to plant pumpkins so they are ready for
halloween?  Start indoors/outdoors?