General Gardening
Tags: beneficial insects, butterflies and bees, butterfly garden, butterfly gardens, caterpillars, climate zone, cucumbers, flowers, gardening, harvesting, host, nectar, novice gardener, plant, plants, pollinators, stamen and pistil, sun, tomato plant, tomatoes, vegetable garden
April 5, 2009
Butterflies tend to hang out near one of two plants: ones that produce a tasty snack of nectar, and plants where they will lay eggs. These are known best as nectar and host plants. And, since butterflies can tend to be picky eaters, they often use just a single plant family as a food source for the caterpillars. Prevailing wisdom is to plant both nectar and host plants to draw butterflies into their gardens.
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Seeds
Tags: dead heading, flower bud, flowering tobacco, flowers, harvest seeds, harvesting seeds, heirloom seeds, nicotiana, nursary, plainting seeds, planting seeds, plants, pots, seed exchange, seed pods, seed swap, seed swaps, seed varieties, Seeds, starting a garden from seed
February 10, 2009
There is nothing all that magical about gathering seeds from your plants. You just need to know what to do and not do, and take your time. In fact, we have been gathering seeds off the Nicotiana plants for the better part of a month. Here’s how it works:
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