How to Grow Peas
Green pea, also called garden pea or English pea (Pisum sativum); edible-pod pea, also called Chinese snow pea or sugar pea (P. sativum macrocarpum)
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Improving Clay Soils for Your Roses
Good cultivation of roses, as with every other plant, has very little to do with following advice from other people, or knowing what to do, how to do it, when, and what with – but why!
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Growing Onions
In most of the U.S. and southern Canada, where frost is expected in winter, plant onions in spring as soon as the soil can be worked for harvesting in summer and fall (or the following spring for bunching onions). In frost-free regions, plant in fall for harvesting in spring.
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When to apply rotted horse manure to rose trees?
Three questions that are all part of the same basic problem. First, the single rose is not a ‘sport’ but the bloom of the rootstock, which is ignoring the bud of the choice variety and putting up its own growth, also characterized by the seven leaves instead of five. Why suckers occur, and what to do about them, is best explained by in turn explaining why we bud and graft.
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The Goblet System of Growing Grapes
The aim here is to produce a vine shaped like an open bush. The rods are allowed to grow naturally for the first year after planting. The rods are then cut back to within two buds of their base in January.
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Silver Lime and Common Ash
The small-leaved lime is widespread throughout most of Europe, extending northwards to Sweden, and eastwards to the Urals. In western and central Europe it occurs in oak forests in lowland and hill country. It also grows as a scattered tree in riverine forests, and is plentiful in scree woods.
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Grey Alder and Common Hornbeam
The common beech is widespread in western, central and southern Europe, but absent in the northern and eastern parts with severe winters. In the mountains, it occurs even at elevations above 1000 metres. It is a shade-tolerant and vigorous tree that frequently grows in pure stands, but also occurs in mixed stands together with the spruce and fir, and, at lower altitudes, with the oak, hornbeam, and other broad-leaved trees. It attains a height of 30 to 40 metres and develops a long, smooth, silver-grey trunk with a high broad crown. The pointed buds are elongate, measuring 15 to 20 mm in length, and stand away from the twig.
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European Larch and Scots Pine
The common yew is a conifer whose distribution has greatly decreased during the past centuries; today it is protected by law in most countries. In the Middle Ages, its wood was widely used to make bows, and, later, costly furniture, and so, with its slow rate of growth, the yew slowly disappeared from the forests.
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Leaves
The tree obtains nourishment from the soil through the roots, and from the air through the leaves. Both roots and leaves are adapted by nature for the role they play. The leaves of broad- leaved trees consist of the stalk, or petiole, and a thin lamina or blade, which provides the greatest possible surface of contact with the air.
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Tree Flower Pollination
Tree flowers are rarely borne singly. As a rule they grow in lusters (inflorescences), which can contain many flowers or just a few.
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