Monthly Archives: July 2008

How To Prune Tomatoes 0

7/11/2008Growing Wisdom:Pruning Tomatoes Pruning tomatoes is one of the easiest and most beneficial things you can do to increase fruit size and help lessen the chances of disease. First, let’s talk about which tomatoes to prune. Indeterminate (climbing) tomatoes should be staked, trellised, or caged, and pruned for best results.

Organic Gardening – Propagation Methods 0

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Pruning Tomatoes 0

How to prune and train tomatoes up a string

Pruning Plants: Petunias 0

How to Prune Petunias with more info on pruning at www.douggreensgarden.com from garden author Doug Green Pruning plants such as petunias is a simple chore if you understand the nature of both pruning and petunias. The objective is to create a heading cut that stops a branch of the petunia from growing and forces the plant to become bushier – thus producing more flowers This video at www.douggreensgarden.com shows the two basic pruning cuts you use on all plants, from container plants to trees and shrubs such as hydrangea.

Pruning Petunias 0

How to Prune Petunias by award winning garden writer Doug Green

Summer pruning 0

Summer pruning may not be needed every year or for every tree, but where excessive new woody growth is made, there are benefits from thinning out some of the new growth to regulate the tree.

Summer pruning 0

Summer pruning may not be needed every year or for every tree, but where excessive new woody growth is made, there are benefits from thinning out some of the new growth to regulate the tree. Doing this in mid-to-late summer allows more light to fall on the apples which will lead to better colour and less apple scab, you are also going to prevent the tree getting overcrowded in future years. Big, tall growing ’standard’ apple trees, the sort you hang a swing from and sit in the shade beneath, cannot realistically be summer pruned, these trees find their own balance but in any event are usually more architectural/beautiful than fruit prduction units

Mel Bartholomew – Introducing Square Foot Gardening 0

Square Foot Gardening (SFG) is a great way to convert that boring suburbia grass lawn into a sustainable produce isle. Don’t have a lawn? That’s cool- SFG can be done practically anywhere.