Homeowner Forum / Lawn and Garden / February 2008

I'm growing some tomato plants under a 400 watt metal halide lamp. They
are about three weeks old and several are a few days from blooming. Right
now I have them under 18 hours of light and 6 hours of darkness.
Should I continue to keep them under the MH lamp or should I switch ...

Hello, all: It's been an especially harsh winter here in Toronto and, for
the first time I've ever seen, some deer (2) have been coming up the ravine
into my backyard and have eating all the needles off my yew trees.  My
question is two-fold:

I have been growing veg for more years than I care to remember, but I
have never tried Sugar peas.
I bought 2 packs of seed from Lidl and was supprised to read in the
instructions

Severe drought, I'll say it aloud my friends.
Comments, especially the hill country people?
I'm hoping for some more isolated low cells to bring rain like last year.
I give the TV weather people the finger everyday now for their pretty

I live in Seattle, zone 8ish (maybe different as I'm in the foothills of the
mountains) and talking to a nursery owner about some perennials for a
filtered sun area he recommended potentially some helleborus plants.
I'm not at all familiar with this plant, he indicated that the ...

Just curious. As I understand it the evaporation of moisture is what
draws the sap from the toots up the tree. Does this mean that the sap
does not rise until the leaves unfurl? If so where do the leaves obtain
the energy to be "kick started"?

Looking to make improvised cloches using fleece or mesh for carrots and
brassicas. I have found steel rods for 83p per m for 12mm and found 15mm
plastic pipe at builders merchant (may be a bit slack). Has anyone done it
this way, perhaps with alkathene?  I was thinking of 36 inch ...

Their products aren't that good, and they like to cripple americans.
How can we support that?

I've never had the problem in the past. At first I thought that the soap
spray I recently started using attracted them, but why not all my other
orchids?
All my plants are under 20/20 screening; southen exposure... and I'm in

I was wondering, when would it be suitable to start planting things lik
broad beans, corn, french beans, sunflowers and other large plants?
The maximum temperature in my area is only around 14c during the day
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I'm going to put in some strawberries.  Is there any advantage to the
orientation?  I can plant it in several locations, shielded in each
directions.  Would this make a difference, say in winter, when they would be
sheltered from the north wind.  Or in the summer when they would be

Does anyone happen to know where I can get one of these?

I am sowing seeds in 3.5 inch square plastic flower pots using Greenall
Organic Potting Soil. I place the pots in 1020 treys with clear plastic
domes and keep them near a window at a constant seventy degree
temperature.

Living in Austin Tx and the stickers will be here soon.
Question: Is there anything I can apply to my lawn to rid it of these
nasty sandburs ?   Half of my yard is burrs, and the other is St. Augustine.
Thanks for any replies.

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