How do leaves help a plant grow?

Direct sow beans in the garden 1 to 2 weeks after the last expected frost when the soil has warmed to at least 60°F (16°C). Start beans indoors 3 to 2 weeks before transplanting to the garden. • Bush beans are usually determinate with one week or two week period of harvest; bush beans are usually planted every 10 days to ensure a continuous harvest through summer. • Pole beans are usually indeterminate, or vining, with a continuous harvest over 6 to 8 weeks if the beans are pi

With their large, attractive, and long-lasting flower heads, hydrangeas are wonderfully showy performers in the summer garden. Fantastic in the landscape or as cut flowers, the bold blooms of the bigleaf varieties are a standout in vibrant shades of blue, green, mauve, pink, purple, red, and white. And some of them have the seemingly magical ability to change the color of their flowers. From blue to mauve or pink and vice versa, their chameleon-like shifts are unique in the flower gar

Introduction to outdoor gardening tips, ideas, secrets, and techniques for beginners: A Garden is a planned, often outdoor space set aside for cultivating, displaying, and enjoying plants. The term garden is generally used to refer to a residential or public garden, but traditionally, it was a more general term. It is in our nature to connect with the natural world. The strength and structure of a shade tree, the visual color explosion of annuals, or the tranquility of a water garden represe

Here’s a confession for you: even though I love them, I used to be too lazy to eat sunflower seeds. Unshelled ones, anyway. All that work cracking them open just for a tiny slice of heaven inside? Not for me. Or so I thought… After enjoying the large, glorious yellow blooms of my very own sunflowers all summer long, I harvested my own homegrown seeds for the first time. Now I find eating unshelled sunflower seeds is an excellent way to keep my mind occupied