How does your garden grow (without water)?
With all the strict restrictions on watering, how do you keep your garden alive? Do you have creative ways to come by water for your plants? What are they? We’re thirsting to know, and so are our readers!!
What’s the best way to get rid of leaves?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It’s fall in North Georgia, so that means it’s time to rake leaves. On the day after Thanksgiving, that seems like a good chore to me: burn a few calories after Thursday’s eating overkill, make the yard look better … good balance.
Assuming you agree (and if you don’t, by all means speak up,) what’s your preferred method of leaf removal? Personally, I like raking, followed by some mowing. The mower does a good job of chopping up the leaves, but the silence of raking is hard to beat.
Successful gardening in tough conditions
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Now that the triple-digit temperatures have subsided temporarily, we want to know: did any of your gardens make it out alive? If you have a great-looking garden that shows little sign of weariness, how did you do it? Did you plant only drought-tolerant varieties or xeriscape? Share your secrets …
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Touring for ideas?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It’s garden-tour season, a time of year when visitors get inspired by cool new plants, hardscape ideas and plain old inspiration to get out and dig. What’s the neatest idea you’ve ever discovered on a garden tour? Or interesting plant? Or clever landscape idea? Maybe you have a pet peeve about tours, such as having no one around to answer questions or to identify plants. We’d like to hear about your experiences. Happy touring!
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‘Mater matters
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I’ve been CRAVING a fresh-tomato sandwich, which makes me want to run out and plant bunches of them. But every year, I fight the same enemies that many of you do — early blight, blossom end rot, wilt. What’s your secret to growing the perfect tomato? We’re sharing a few from gardening guru Walter Reeves and Daryl Pulis, a Master Gardener in Cumming, in our Living section April 19, and we’d like to hear yours as well. And while you’re at it, tell us which varieties you find do best in Georgia. I’m getting hungry just thinking about it all!!
One spectacular flowering-tree show!!
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I don’t know about you, but I think this is the prettiest spring we’ve had in years for flowering trees. Cherries, dogwoods, redbuds — even those blasted nasty Bradford pears — are putting on quite a show these days. My friend Greg Levine at Trees Atlanta says that the early spring and unseasonably warm temperatures has bloom times colliding, producing the mass of white and pink fireworks we’re enjoying in Atlanta skies. On April 12 in our Living section, we want to test your ability to identify a dozen or so of these trees. Don’t miss our plant quiz! Should be fun. In the meantime, we’d love to know about locations of great trees we ought to check out. Tell us what you’re finding and where. And if you have them, send us some photos that we can share with other readers (e-mail them to H&G@ajc.com). Enjoy the beautiful display while it’s here!!!
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