… The Well-Trained Tomato Tomato plants typically fall into one of two categories: indeterminate and determinate. Indeterminate (climbing) plants, such as Big Beef, Brandywine, and Cherokee Purple, continue growing throughout the summer. The plants can have flowers, immature fruit, and ripe fruit all at the same time. Determinate plants, such as Celebrity, Marglobe, and Better …
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… The holidays will soon be here and one way to celebrate the season is with a floral arrangement or two. Placed on a kitchen or dining room table, a coffee table, mantlepiece or a countertop, flowers make a room festive and inviting. Whether you buy fresh flowers, or receive them as a gift, you can often extend … Field & Florist, an instructor at the Chicago Botanic Garden. “If you don’t, the leaves decay and bacteria will grow in the water.” Bacteria cause the common green film that forms at the …
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… New! Unlock a world of flavor with tangy, refreshing, and filling octopus and shrimp salad, or ensalada de pulpo y camarones. Paired with tostones (thin, crispy smashed plantains), this is a meal that you will want to replicate time and time again. Learn how to prepare octopus, shrimp, and plantains in this hands-on class that …
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… Just when the hostas, lilies, and other garden perennials are going to bed for the season, these bulbs are waking up. Arum Arum italicum ‘Jet Black Wonder’ has unique black spots and pink- tinged flowers. Arum first emerge in the late fall. The broad, arrow-shaped leaves of Arum italicum are highly ornamental and sturdy—quickly perking up after hard freezes, providing a welcome spot of green in the winter …
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… Although I’m a scientist by trade, I’ve also joined the ranks of home/craft beer makers, and have done a fair bit of brewing myself. Despite seemingly endless beer varieties, beer making … basic ingredients. So what’s really happening during the major steps in the brewing process? And what do all those colorful beer-making terms mean? Malted (germinated) barley is used as a base in beer and scotch. Photo via Finlay McWalter, Wikimedia Commons. GFDL A beautiful vine for the home …
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… year—butterfly bushes ( Buddleja ), torch lilies ( Kniphofia ), masterworts ( Astrantia ), and ninebarks ( Physocarpus )—gave us a nice preview of what we might expect this summer as the plants grow larger. From the blues, pinks, and purples of the butterfly bushes to the oranges, yellows, and reds of the torch lilies, the evaluation garden will be a riot of colors and a haven for …
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… getting about Spike the titan arum is “How do you know how much water to give it?” The care and feeding that we have given Spike and its fellow titan arums—our collection of nine Amorphophallus titanum growing in our … for these plants are strict. Titan arums require well-maintained conditions of high humidity and high temperature—similar to their natural conditions in the tropical rainforests of Sumatra. …
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… Bloom Cart shows you a curated selection of what’s in bloom across the Chicago Botanic Garden—and more. At first glance, it looks like the Bloom Cart features little teasers of the beauty … old-school signpost of sorts, made of pine by the Garden’s carpenters, with handwritten labels and a touch of whimsy (on the Fourth of July, the selections are red, white, and blue). Boyce Tankersley , director of living plant documentation, once overheard a …
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… strawberry plants in the world with a three-star Michelin restaurant? The collaboration and conservation initiative began after Garden horticulturist Lisa Hilgenberg happened to meet … twentieth century, it was a widely grown strawberry variety. James Beard, the legendary cook and television personality, once said he thought the Marshall was “the finest eating strawberry … the 1950s, the Marshall had largely been replaced by other cultivars because, due to disease and its short shelf life, it became an expensive strawberry to produce. By 2007, the USDA …
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… series, the steamy period romance Bridgerton . But we’ve barely noticed all the sex and scandals in the show’s depiction of early nineteenth-century London high society. Nope, we’re … to four weeks in June. We do love that the show’s main characters—the duke, Simon Basset, and Daphne Bridgerton—share their first kiss in a garden. For a flirtatious conversation piece in the English Walled Garden, look for the tulips ‘Sensual Touch’ and ‘Foxy Fox Trot’ in the plant stand by the blue gate. And don’t forget one of the prettiest …
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