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: early girls, harvesting, plainting seeds, plant seeds, seed catalogs, seed varieties, seedlings, Seeds, starting garden, urban garden, urban gardening, yellow pear
February 9, 2009
Planting seeds for a garden might be one of the easiest things you’ve done. With a couple concepts to keep in mind, you will have a plentiful garden with only a small investment.
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