What & When to Plant
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'Face Plant' Fall
Asked by Z.O. from Chicago
on July 13, 2011
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While my daughter was being 'watched' by her father she had a bad fall while running on a cement driveway. Her face got extremely scraped up and looks horrible. I have...
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- A kid can get hurt while you're holding their hand. It happens. Not sure what you're asking...is it how to get her not to "pick" at the scars? I guess just keep rem...
- Honey, it happens. You need to use a lot of bactriban or neosporin and there is another kind of scar reducing cream you can use. My very beautiful daughter rolled do...
- My son took a face plant on my sister's driveway when he was 14 months old. The doctor prescribed some kind of prescription neosporin type cream and it went away beau...
Gardening Question: Zucchini Plants
Asked by V.D. from Salt Lake City
on August 7, 2011
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OK so aren't zucchini supposed to feed the entire neighborhood with just one plant? I've grown them every year without problem. My zucchini plant this year however, ...
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- We are hearing that from everybody this year...green beans aren't producing, tomatoes looks awful, no corn around, and even the peas aren't coming in. Weather!
- Go to your local gardening expert store... in Idaho it is Zamzows... and get a product that is supposed to keep the bloom... it is something like stay on. Also, our w...
- Water, water, water! This year everywhere has had weird weather. Lots of rain early and hardly any later. The plants are just confused. I have been hitting mine in the...
Gardening
Asked by S.M. from Chicago
on April 21, 2010
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I just bought a bunch of veggies to plant for my garden. Is it too cold at night right now to plant them outside yet? It has been in the 40's at night still. I have...
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- It is definitely too early. The ground is too cold and still too hard. Weight at least another 3 weeks or consult a local greenhouse for their recommendations for pl...
- In Ohio - I ususally don't plant peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers & other warm weather veg till around Mother's Day (mid May), but my dad always said Memorial Day weekend ...
- you would be better off planting them in the day time.
Gardening! HELP!! I'm Trying!
Asked by N.A. from Chicago
on April 15, 2011
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Hello Mama's!
This year I took it upon myself to actually buy vegetable seed's and grow them on my own rather then go out and buy them already grown. I planted zucc...
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- cut off all brown leaves and get you a gardening book to show diffrent diseases and remedies. sounds like you are over watering.
- Shock is hard to overcome when you plant indoors first. Indoors we provide them with a stable temperature that changes little more than a couple degrees. They get in...
- Sounds like you put them outside too quickly! You're north of us and our rule of thumb to plant outside is after Derby Day (first Saturday in May).
Need Spring/summer Gardening Tips/advice!
Asked by M.D. from Dallas
on March 14, 2009
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Hi Mama's!
I've always wanted to have a garden of some sort. Last year we fixed our yard up so that I could have several small gardens. I was too busy over the su...
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- I'm not an expert but I've learned a lot over the years through careful research and trial and error. Calloways will test your soil for free. If you need to add so...
- Howard Garrett has some wonderful books on growing things locally, what works and does not work. They're sold in most of the locally-owned garden centers. He also ha...
- Hi M., We are making a new vegetable garden in our back yard and planning to plant this month. We have not been able to prepare the garden as planned because of th...
Gardening Mamas - Supporting Tomatoes!
Asked by J.K. from Mansfield
on April 6, 2010
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We are a tomato loving family! My youngest daughter can eat an entire plant of cherrie tomatoes (fullest harvest) completely by herself! Last year I grew 18 cherrie/gr...
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- We are a tomato loving family too! I have a small garden (that I have to expand this year) so my plants are REALLY close together. I use tomato cages, but I use the BI...
- I don't have any problem with my tomato gardens maybe because I don't do it my husband does all the work.Have a great summer
- Call Gardener and ask him about what is best for you to do.
"Bath Salts" or "Plant Food" Are You Familiar with This Drug?
Asked by ☆.A. from Pittsburgh
on February 21, 2012
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Apparently the $20 packets are sold legally in stores in most states.
They sound quite dangerous.
This was news to me--so a head's up for moms of teens.....
Have ...
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- Around here the teens' drugs of choice (besides pot and alcohol) are prescription drugs (taken from parents/grandparents) and add/adhd medications. Teens will find a ...
- i'm confused about why people who rant (which is fine, i like rants!) are accusing other people of ranting, on subjects that don't seem to have anything to do with the...
- I dont have teens, but it is illegal here.
Anyone Good at Gardening?
Asked by J.K. from St. Louis
on September 17, 2009
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We planted mums about 2 or 3 weeks ago. They're all dead--already! We're new to taking care of flowers and don't really know what we're doing. We water them about ever...
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- Take heart darling. My first attempt to plant roses 10 years ago resulted in nothing but dead sticks coming out of the ground that my husband still teases me about. No...
- I have had good luck with the following method, and I hope it works for you. I start out with 2 items, in addition to the plants, of course! Miracle Grow Potting Soil...
- I used to struggle keeping plnts alive as well.....now I am a green thumb. Well to be honest, it was anything my husband planted that would die, and I struggled to ke...
I Need Gardening Advice!!
Asked by C.B. from Odessa
on December 11, 2008
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I just recently bought a house with great landscaping. I don't know how to take care of it for the winter! It's all overgrown and ugly now. i've heard pruning, but how...
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- I have a survival of the fittest concept.... Hard Prune everything!! After Feb. 14, (grandma wives tale!) Then decide out of what lives to care for!!!
- Ok, I am no expert but here goes. You mulch the plants in your planters. That protects them from freezing. If you are economically challenged like the rest of us, y...
- Talk to the folks at Natural Gardener. They give lots of free advice.
Gardening - Raised Beds
Asked by J.W. from Pueblo
on March 3, 2009
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Does anyone have raised garden beds? We are putting them in our backyard this year and are contemplating what material to use. We are looking at cedar and redwood. Ced...
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- Hi J., We have two small raised beds in our backyard... we used redwood that we had left over from building our deck a few years ago that was just sitting on the side...
- J., Hi, we have made ours out of cinder blocks. I like them because you can plant herbs or small plants in the square of the blocks. Ours are two blocks high, 3 feet ...
- We just moved here last summer, but in AZ I had raised garden beds in my back yard that I built with concrete block. The kind I used was specifically for retaining wa...
