Homeowner Forum / Lawn and Garden / August 2008

I am growing some beans and they have patches of black flies on. The
beans seem to be growing regardless. Should I be worried or is it just
a cosmetic problem? I would think that if the flies are drinking sap
or something, they are using energy that the plant would otherwise use

I'm a new gardener and brand-new to this forum.
I was wondering if anyone knew the name of this plant, as I'd like t
get some more!
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That's my girl.All else is forgiven. A gardener without 'em
is not a hands-on gardener,but you've got down to the
fundamentals - the soil.
Well done Carol.

I'm going to plant a Hydrangea Serrata in the best position I can offer it,
with morning sun and aternoon shade, but the soil is not going to be moist if
I just plant it there and do nothing else. I can water it of course... But I
wonder what else I could do. I can put pieces of ...

Have just discovered some dahlias and begonias in shoe boxes in the garage
where I put them to store last year. They all have 3 - 4 inch shoots on
them.
If I plant them now - in pots - will they do anything this season?

ABPO now seems to be a porn sight
Hot teen girls caught nude in tanning bed now how sick is that?
This makes me so angry I could just strangle the nearest Attorney General.
Or we could email all our orchid pictures (large format) to New York's

New Pepper Problem
The peppers that were producing in my garden have started having
peppers ruin on the plant.
The peppers (bell) look just fine until the side that is up starts

Lots of foliage but no flower spikes on my acanthus this year!
Anyone any ideas why this should be???

I'm in South Florida (U.S.) and wonder if there are any other Florida
gardeners on this list.

Are there any difference, or just two names for the same thing?

I found a really easy way to make Fradiavlo sauce today!  I just took
one of the big green Cayenne peppers from my garden, chopped it into 4
equal pieces and dropped them into a pot of store bought sauce.  The
sauce is a really good Marinara that I love anyway.

I have a passion flower in my back yard, i am in extreme south
louisiana..50
miles southwest of new orleans.
the first year that we were visited by the gulf fritillary butterfly,

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We have a particularly ugly block of flats overlooking our garden:
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I want to plant a tree between the trees you can see in this picture
to provide screening. The existing trees are beyond our boundary on

Today, we went into the garden.  A mostly ignored neglected place that we
had high hopes for last spring.  We found a few edible things, and thigh
high weeds.
BUT, along the wall were lots and lots of grapes.  Some as small as a dime