Homeowner Forum / Lawn and Garden / August 2008

What do people use to poison termites?
Want something that I can apply.

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Now that I am picking more beans than I can eat, I have to resort to
freezing some for later use.
I have Googled and found as many contradictions about precise methods as
there are pairs of contributors.    ;-)

Am I correct that there are several varieties of these plants
Which one's can be grown in the garden and left out all year
And are they an easy plant to find in garden centers or are they a more
specialist plant

My raspberry canes are in the border of the garden and are starting to
send suckers out into the very small "lawn". I've got a similar problem
with blackberries. I'm happy to zap the brambles with weed-killer, but
if I do the same with the raspberries is this going to affect the ...

    In the past many of the manufacturers produced fold-out lookup
charts for the home gardening market with illustrations of
diseased/chewed plants, the pest/fungus responsible and their product
for treating it.  These were rather useful, not least as list of what

I planted six elderberry plants last year.  This
year they are five to six feet tall and have
fruit set.  Question is how do you tell when the
fruit is optimum for harvesting?  I have them

Have had this for ages, cant remember how I acquired it, I always called it
Chinese honeysuckle, but have been put right on that!  Its not a very fast
grower. That's all I can say about it! it doesn't flower, I'm having to tie
it to the arch, but it is quite pretty.

When is the best time to plant clover in Connecticut?
Also, does it prefer acid or sweet soil?

I've just moved homes and for the first time have a fruit tree - a
peach tree. I know very little about gardening, and I'm wondering if i
have to protect the fruit from insects, birds, bats etc?
The tree has flowered, and now has many small peaches.

OK guys, my tomatoes are still covered with whitefly and their small green
babies that look like minute aphids. My friend, looking at them today, said
she believes they also have spider mites.  Her eyesight is better than mine.
The NeemOil did almost nothing nor did the Seven ...

Can you please recommend a crop to grow this summer for a winter in
containers?

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Not that I have really had a summer here, but the sheeps' sorrel is running
rampant in the lawn and the garden and the quickest way to fix it is a good
heavy application of lime.  Usually this happens in the late fall and I just
broadcast lime and in the spring, I'm all set for the ...

Good evening,
My mother has a californian lilac which is well established and I'
like to take a cutting to grow in my own garden. Does anybody have an
advice specifically for this plant, or for cutting and planting i