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Can you recommend any short, large-seeded sunflowers? I'm wanting to grow a lot more sunflowers (Helianthus) for food, these days, but one of my concerns is they get really tall, and sometimes I like shorter plants If you know of any sunflowers just like the giant ones (e g Mammoth Gray Striped , Mongolian Giant , and Black Russian ), except with shorter, stockier stems (I'm thinking maybe one
What is the best way to compost a large pile of leaves with minimal . . . If you have a lawnmower (that isn't a reel mower), you have a way to chop them up Rake them into a row and mow over the row - presumably you don't have a bagging mower or you'd also have them bagged at that point, but you will have a row of shredded leaves a bit to one side of the original row of unshredded leaves
vegetables - Calorically dense crops that can be grown in southern . . . Alcohol has been made into a food group for reference more than anything; 7 calories per gram Straight across the board Best stuff with most nutrients, easiest to grow and get great harvests (at 4 calories per gram) that I grow are potatoes, beets, tomatoes, peppers, spinach, kale, cilantro, basil, squash especially the gourds
Rocky Mountain Bee-plant - Gardening Landscaping Stack Exchange I know that plant as a spider flower (Cleome sp ) We plant those in the ground in Wisconsin in early to mid-May (near to or after the last frost date) ; usually, though, the seeds from the prior year just sprout on their own
compost - My composter has developed a sour smell and a lot of bugs . . . I set up a 7 cu ft rolling composter in my garden about 3 weeks ago and filled it about halfway with 1 3 food scraps and 2 3 cardboard leaves finished compost My kids added more food scraps, so it's probably 50-50 now I've kept it wet and turned it, but upon opening it yesterday, it had a sour stench and a lot of bugs squirming in it
Is there actually such a thing as a ripe green pepper? Green peppers are not ripe Even if the seeds are viable (immature pepper seeds can be grown if planted soon after harvesting, but don't have the food storage for long storage), if the pepper is green, it's not ripe They can ripen to a lot of colors, but the most common is red (for varieties sold for green use)
pest control - Keeping rats from eating my plants - Gardening . . . The magnolias, spider plants, golden pothos, money tree leaves, peace Lily's, giant Thai elephant ear, and so many, many more I killed many previously with sticky traps (which I don't like to use because they also kill birds), and with metal traps, but after watching the screaming death of their mother the new brood has wised up to all my
identification - What is this giant grub looking thing? - Gardening . . . I found this post while researching the giant grub I found in a decaying tree That is, in very woody, mulch-like environment It was at least the size of my (adult female) index finger I live in SE Texas I believe it's the larva of some sort of scarab rhinoceros beetle just like the writer found
Is there a way to encourage needle re-growth in fir trees? Stack Exchange Network Stack Exchange network consists of 183 Q A communities including Stack Overflow, the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers
identification - Bugs in compost - what are they? - Gardening . . . Those are Blowfly larvae These are the most common maggot in compost heaps They will usually appear when the pile is less aerobic than ideal, but will hit almost any compost heap, especially those with raw kitchen scraps or manure added