Margaret Lauterbach: Gardening
Lauterbach: The climate has changed our gardens
Some prophesied that vines would proliferate when the climate changed, and they have. Virginia creeper is covering fences and shooting 30 to 40 feet into the air, climbing tall trees. Nobody mentioned proliferations of weeds.
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MARGARET LAUTERBACH: GARDENING
Lauterbach: Playing a dangerous game with frost year after year
Did you give in to temptation and plant tomatoes early like I did? There have been few springs that I didn’t plant early and then scrambled to save transplants from frost.
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GARDENING
Lauterbach: Nature’s hit man — walnut leaves
Here’s a startling and useful discovery: Walnut leaves kill quack grass. A friend on an Internet garden forum said he had not had time to rake up his walnut leaves in autumn, and when he did in spring, he found the leaves had killed the quack grass but left rye grass alone.
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MARGARET LAUTERBACH: GARDENING
Lauterbach: A rose, by any name, begs questions
Are you thinking about planting a rose? Roses thrive here. Rambling and shrub roses in lush bloom brightened yards when we first moved to Idaho in June 1971, quite a refreshing, colorful sight after a few hundred miles of sagebrush, pale soil and cheat grass.
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MARGARET LAUTERBACH: GARDENING
Lauterbach: With plants, timing is everything
We could still have a frost, so keep your weather ear open for forecasts.
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MARGARET LAUTERBACH: GARDENING
Lauterbach: All about alliums (onions, garlic, shallots, etc.)
Alliums are useful, delicious, ornamental and at times repellant, but we love them. Allium is the botanical name of onions, garlic, chives, shallots, leeks, and several ornamental plants.
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MARGARET LAUTERBACH: GARDENING
Lauterbach: Dry winter a danger to many plants
Check your shrubs and trees that have not yet leafed out this spring. The droughty winter just concluded may have killed some of our woody plants.
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MARGARET LAUTERBACH: GARDENING
Margaret Lauterbach: Interest in growing chiles heats up
Chiles (Capsicums) for growing and eating have burgeoned in popularity over the past few years, and are continuing to whet appetites. They may be used to spice food, to be eaten by themselves as a vegetable, eaten in combination with other foods, or very hot ones used as an insecticide.
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MARGARET LAUTERBACH: GARDENING
Lauterbach: Warm winter affects plant behavior
I’m not the only one here who knows this was a very weird winter: my winter honeysuckle knows it, too.
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MARGARET LAUTERBACH: GARDENING
Margaret Lauterbach: All you ever wanted to know about beans
A familiar insult used to be “you don’t know beans.” After you read this column, you will know beans about beans, guaranteed.
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MARGARET LAUTERBACH: GARDENING
Margaret Lauterbach: Plant options grow with trellises, grafting
Trends in gardening now center on more container and trellis growing of ornamental and edible plants, shrubs and trees. If you have to move because of job availability, foreclosure or other reason, you take your “garden” with you.
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