… Although it may not look like it, spring is on its way, which means it’s time to start prepping for the anticipated spring planting season. This is a great time of year for horticultural therapy contracts. Everyone is itching to start planning and prepping for a successful horticultural therapy outdoor garden program, and … participant (especially young students) that plants, even those as great as sunflowers, start out as tiny seeds. Therapeutic significance Seedlings just starting to sprout Seed …
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… seeds are easy to acquire, inexpensive, large enough to see and pick up with your fingers, and quick to germinate under normal conditions. Testing germination does not take weeks, doesn't … 8. How is germination rate affected by age of the seeds? You can acquire old seeds from a garden store (they will be happy to get rid of them), or maybe a gardener in your family … so to speak. Students should design an experiment around whatever question interests them—from this list or their own ideas—to make the research personal and fun. As long as students …
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Photographs can take our breath away. A beautiful image can transport us to another time. It can flood us with long-forgotten memories. It can go far beyond being a record of a thing, and can instead surround us with an essence, and feelings. Learn how to make pictures that soar past postcards, and capture what you are feeling, what you are seeing, and what you are thinking. The first three …
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… moist but well drained soils. Divide when the clumps of corms have become so congested they start to push up to the surface of the soil. Interplant corms with companion plants that begin …
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… moist but well drained soils. Divide when the clumps of corms have become so congested they start to push up to the surface of the soil. Interplant corms with companion plants that begin …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… moist but well-drained soil, and divide when the clumps of corms have become so congested they start to push up to the surface of the soil. Interplant the corms with companion plants that …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… moist but well drained soils. Divide when the clumps of corms have become so congested they start to push up to the surface of the soil. Interplant corms with companion plants that begin …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… and pop up where you didn't plant it. This is a large shrub, 8-10' tall, with branches that start out upright and arch outward. The leaves are compound with usually 7 toothed leaflets. The …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… and pop up where you didn't plant it. This is a large shrub, 8-10' tall, with branches that start out upright and arch outward. The leaves are compound with usually 7 toothed leaflets. The …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… a spot that gets at least six to eight hours of direct sun in the summer, now’s the time to start planting. “We have grown 'Purple Peruvian' and 'French Fingerling',” says Lisa Hilgenberg, … potatoes in containers, fiber planting bags, or raised beds.” Fingerling potatoes may yield from 15 to 20 times the amount originally planted while standard potatoes yield about 10 times … “I prefer to wait until about May 1 when the soil is dryer and warmer.” Potatoes are grown from “seed” potatoes—small tubers with “eyes” that sprout leaves. (If you’ve ever had an old …
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