Homeowner Forum / Lawn and Garden / September 2008

I as wondering if anyone had a recipe for organic
garden spray.
I have beautiful organic vege garden beds but
the white butterfly are starting to come about.

I was at a zoo in Oregon recently and saw a tree that I want to know
more about.  Can you tell me what kind of tree it is?  I have a
picture of it here http://home.comcast.net/~lyddie/whattree.htm .  If
the link doesn't work, it had soft, fuzzy pink flower poofs all over

Many of your spray-on weed killers cost somewhere around $3-$4/gal .
Looking at 20 gal required.
Is there any kind of spray-on weed killer that is effective at less cost per
gallon?

This photo may be too dark but can anyone id this Abutilon for us?
http://i34.tinypic.com/2h74ghh.jpg

Hmm, the flower buds on my dorset naga chilli plant are shrivelling up and
falling off the plant before they've got anywhere near opening. I know the
two main reasons for flowers falling off are non-pollination (which isn't
the case as they haven't even opened) and lack of ...

Mary, I saw some absolutely gorgeous bantams
at an agricultural show on Saturday - Silver Seabrights.
The young lad who was showing them took 1st,
2nd and 3rd - and he has some for sale!

This question may sound naive but I can't find this information in three
clematis books!
Am I right n assuming that new type 2 (slight prune) clematis plants will not
reach anything like their full size in the first year after planting but will

Hi, Im new to this site and know very little about gardnening, however
am going to be meeting my partners mother for the first time soon an
she is a keen gardnener and I would like to take her a rare plant as
gift and also learn a bit about gardnening so it might be something w

For some years a large established eating apple tree in my garden has
stopped fruiting. I suspect is not self fertile and it stopped fruiting when
a neighbour cut down their tree. I've no idea what type of tree I have. Any
rule for picking a pollinator in this situation?

I am new to growing rose's, and am a bit bewildered as where to start. I
mean what would be a good type of rose to start of with etc.
I live in south wales in the UK, my garden soil, is quite good, I have grown
tomato's, asters, marigolds, lupins, gladioli, heathers, tulips to ...

I thought I'd start the usual autumn 'things flowering at the wrong time
of year' thread. (Actually, I know someone has already started that with
the twice-flowering Magnolia).
Anyway:

Howdy :)
found a huge lightbulb in my cupboard. by no means do i think it ha
the potential to be anything closely resembling proper grow lights, bu
is it worth putting it on by my citrus plants anyway? just as a littl

The missus had me spending Saturday trying for a better crop of tomatoes
than we had this blow torch of a summer. Maybe the global warming will
make maters a winter crop around here ;-)
Selection of starters was pretty sparse - I bumped into a guy at Home

This is my first post.  I am a veery novice gardener and have jus
moved to a new flat that had a long, shady overgrown garden. I'v
cleared a lot of the garden and cut back a lot of bushes, and cleare
the moss from the path. Rather than take this all to the tip I'v

I planted a grafted tree (of nectarine, peach and plum) in my back
yard in approximately March last year.
(I'm in Australia).
In Winter the tree lost all its leaves and produced beautiful flowers,