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Check Houseplants Before Their Move Back Inside
Monday, 17 January 2011 16:36
Outdoor-summering houseplants may harbor unwanted pests. With daylight shortening and nights cooling, any houseplants you moved outside need to come back indoors. No so for any pests that might be hiding on their leaves and stems. Thoroughly inspect each plant and give leaf tops and undersides a good hosing with a strong, but not damaging stream of water. This dislodges larger caterpillars or spiders and often takes care of harder-to-see pests like aphids. If there's signs of pests—mottled or sticky… READ MORE
Houseplant TLC: Repotting
Monday, 17 January 2011 16:36
Plan a houseplant repotting day before the weather turns cold. September is a good time for gardeners in Connecticut's zones 5 and 6 to replant houseplants. Doing so gives indoor greenery fresh nutrients from which to draw during the low light, dry heat that's so common indoors during autumn and winter. Your local garden center will carry the supplies you'll need: lightweight potting mix, clean pots a size larger than those plants are currently in and granulated slow-release fertilizer. Choose… READ MORE
Great Spaces and Green indoors
Tuesday, 11 January 2011 16:36
Swati Kapur offers tips on how to enliven our homes with a dash of greenery. Not all of us can open our windows to a vast green garden each morning. But we can certainly bring a bit of green into our homes. Fun With Plants My grandma's house had a vast garden for children to run around, play and admire the colourful flowers and plants, and for the grown-ups to sip evening coffee in a well-manicured private garden. Well, that… READ MORE
Home Depot Workers Spruce Up Minn. Veterans home
Friday, 17 December 2010 16:11
95 volunteers from Home Depot stores in the area participated in this Celebration of Service event. They got an $11,000 grant to revamp the garden and patio areas of the Minnesota Veterans Home on Minnehaha Avenue in Minneapolis. Tuesday's project is just one of 200 projects to honor U.S. military veterans that will be taking place between now and November 11 which is Veterans Day. ---- Source READ MORE
Garden projects to try this weekend
Monday, 03 January 2011 16:10
Fall puts gardeners in a fresh-start frame of mind. We take on projects - simple or more involved - that pretty up our surroundings and give us a sense of accomplishment. We found five fun projects to begin the new season. 1. Pot up some peppers Ornamental peppers wear all the fall colors, from rich red to bright yellow and deep purple. Pot up the cheery peppers on a porch, and they'll offer season's greetings as you come and go. 'Black Pearl,' an… READ MORE