Crape myrtle seeds easy to plant
— Fred Volpe, Cobb County
A: The seeds are easy to collect and plant. Observe your plant and collect seed capsules when they turn brown. Let them dry on newspaper.
When they are fully opened, you’ll be able to shake out many seeds. Save them in an envelope and plant outdoors, half-inch deep, in a sunny bed in early April.
They should sprout in June. This will result in lots of crape myrtle seedlings for you to enjoy.
Q: My Yoshino cherry is sending up new shoots from its roots. My landscaper has been spraying them with Roundup. He says that this will not kill the tree. I disagree. Who is correct? — Ronald Jones, email
A: Your landscaper is playing a dangerous game. Glyphosate (Roundup, KleenUp, etc) is translocated from shoots to other parts of the plant.
There are many instances of glyphosate going from one tree to another when their roots graft to each other. A safer product to use is naphthaleneacetate (Sucker Stopper).
Q: My back lawn was recently infested with army worms. I was out of town and didn’t notice it until it was too late. I sprayed BT and now they appear to be gone. Is it OK for me to fertilize my lawn and water it right away?
— George Mangum, Montgomery
A: You are exactly correct. Army worms are the caterpillars of a nondescript brown moth that is blown up from Florida by storms each summer.
They damage a lawn by eating the green leaves, but the harm is not permanent. Feed now with any lawn fertilizer and water it in to get your grass into recovery mode.
Q: My centipede lawn is being taken over by prostrate spurge. I know I should have put out pre-emergent, but is there anything I can do besides wait for it all to die?
— Susan Galloway, email
A: Prostrate spurge has wiry stems, a flat growth habit and multitudes of seeds.
You’re right that a pre-emergent product might have prevented it. Make a note to apply pendimethalin (Halts), dithiopyr (Crab-Ex), or isoxaben (Portrait) in March and May next year.
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Dry seed naturally by spreading out on newspaper in an airy room before removing the seed from the chaff. Store in a dry plastic container in the fridge or a cool room. If you have saved the seeds of your sweet peas, sow now and put them in a frame to
Your pots are a bit small, making it hard to keep them watered all day. A mature tomato plant will suck up all of the moisture in such a container before nightfall each day. Punch a pinhole in a 2-liter soft drink bottle, fill it with water and put it
Garlic chives. In late summer, these bulb communities send up a crowd of tall stalks. At the tip of each, white flowers unfurl from a wrapping that resembles translucent tissue paper. Dividing the clumps just seems to make them grow faster.
Garden columnist Marianne Binetti recommends using used Courier-Heralds as weed block in flower beds. Newspapers, folded tightly, also make excellent seed-starting pots. I use newspaper to speed the ripening process for my tomatoes.
Bedding trays, compost sacks and plastic pots can all be used again. Yogurt pots, loo rolls and juice cartons make good seedling pots. Fruit punnets are ideal for cuttings. Cola bottles with the bottoms chopped off make perfect mini greenhouses for
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Making seed pots out of old newspapers is not only a thrifty use of the newspapers, but also good for the planet. Commercial seed pots usually make you choose between throw-away plastic, or expensive pressed peat moss pots that can go straight into the ground, but use up a scarce natural resource in the process. Newspapers are equally biodegradable, much more economical, and provide a mulch and fertilizer for young plants. Remember not to use glossy or colored pages. Most colored inks these days are soy based inks and are safe.
Using Newspaper Pots
The easiest thing about making your own recycled newspaper pots is that when your seeds are ready to transplant outdoors, the transplant shock is considerably lessened. All you have to do is be sure there are drainage holes poked in the bottom of the newspaper pots, dig your planting hole, and place the seedling, pot and all, straight into the hole with some water. As the seedling grows, the newspaper decays into the soil, giving the tender plant instant mulch and fertilizer.
Origami Method
There is a complete origami folding method that you can use. But, folding pots around a mold is perhaps the easiest and sturdiest method of making recycled newspaper pots for your seeds. These have thick bottoms and tight folds, and are very roomy for seed starting. While you can purchase pot-making wooden molds from seed and garden catalogs, it’s just as easy to form them around a tin can.
Take a whole sheet of newspaper and fold in half vertically, then cut along the crease. Each piece makes one pot. Fold it in half again, and fold an inch over horizontally to make a lip. Roll the newspaper around the can, with about two inches extending beyond the bottom of the can. Fold over these two inches to make the pot bottom. Carefully slide the newspaper off the can while holding the bottom, and fold the lip over again inside the pot to secure the folds.
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