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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Plantings
Tags: Add new tag, control weeds, detritus, food production, gardening, installing a garden, kitchen garden, new garden, organic gardening magazine, potager, spring gardening, tomatoes, vegetable garden
March 16, 2009
When I opened up the April 2009 issue of Organic Gardening magazine I found my inspiration. The idea is a “potager” which is French for kitchen garden. However, this is no 10X20 rectangle with veggies all in a row. This is someplace you want to sit and breathe deeply.
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