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How to help a Jade plant heal?
I have a couple of Jade plants ( Crassula ovata ) that I have grown from leaf pieces over the course of the last 10 years or so. This year, for the first time, they appear to have been attacked by squirrels or something. Hunks of bark have been…
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What is the proper technique to hand pollinate an eggplant?
I have an eggplant that has thus far produced several flowers, but no fruit yet. I have read that hand pollination is often necessary for eggplant to produce fruit.
How do I go about hand pollinating the plant? Do I need any special equipment?
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How do I encourage pepper seeds to germinate?
In the past 2 months, I tried to germinate some pepper seeds, but all of them failed. I used some tiny pots to contain the soil (don't know more about it; just black soil in general) and the planted the seed about 1 cm below the surface. I have…
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Why aren't my fruit/nut trees flowering?
I live in zone 8/9 in northern FL and I have the following fruit/nut trees:
2 Pecans
2 Meyor Lemons
2 Peach trees (uncertain of variety)
1 Black Mission fig
Most of the trees have been planted for between 2 to 4 years, and they are all about that…
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How can I identify an apple variety?
We put in four young apple trees a few years ago, two cookers and two eaters, four different varieties. Now that those puny trees have grown up and started to produce a substantial crop, we're wondering which varieties they are. The labels have been…
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How do I bake weeds out of my landscaping?
I've got a rock area around the back of my house that is getting overrun by weeds. The reason the weeds are able to grow there is because the weed barrier has shifted some so there are gaps between some of the sheets, there are holes in it, and…
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How do I maintain a Raspberry plant?
I planted a raspberry cane this spring, and it appears to be doing well, having put out a new cane that is now 5 ft tall (and curving under its own weight.) There is also old growth at the bottom that bore fruit this year. What do I do to this…
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Do techniques to repel slugs also work on snails?
I have seen the thread on an organic way to repel slugs. However, usually I only see snails in my area. Will the techniques in the answer there work on snails too? Also,
By the way, I've never seen a slug in my life here in Hong Kong. Are…
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Strawberry plants brown & brittle - is it disease, climate conditions, or bugs?
Most of my strawberry plants have leaves that first turned red, then brown and brittle. Leaves often snap off when harvesting what berries remain after the critters get them.
I'm trying to balance watering - I've been holding off a bit more on the…
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My indoor plant has an orange mold-like substance growing on it and has tiny white bugs. How can I remove it?
I have my very first plant in my cube and it seems to be doing just fine.
However, there is an orange mold-like substance growing on the top of the soil, and I can see a few tiny white bugs crawling around in the soil.
Did I do something wrong? …
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Encouraging fig or similar into canopy: what to do with site of severed limbs?
This is a fig tree which has been pruned with a chainsaw down low and with normal secateurs up high. Down the bottom on the left you can see the nodule where a limb about 13cm (5 inches) in diameter has been severed.
The idea here is to encourage…
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How to stop my courgettes (zucchini) rotting?
I've tried growing courgettes (zucchini) for the first time this year and the plants have been delightfully easy to grow. (For reference, I'm in NE England, UK, btw.) However, many of the fruits rarely get thicker than my index finger before…
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What are some good plants to hold the edge of a cliff?
What sorts of plants are good at holding the edge of a cliff? I'd prefer to avoid planting tall things in order to still be able to see off of the cliff. The site is in hardiness zone 5 and is high above a large salt-water bay. It sees an average…
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How do I select garlic which will continue to produce large heads in future replantings?
I've been replanting my garlic every year from some seed cloves I purchased 10 years ago. Every year, I replant cloves from the largest, nicest heads and use the smaller ones in the kitchen. Despite this, I've noticed that I get fewer and fewer…
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My orchid has one yellowing leaf. What's gone wrong?
I have an orchid that I bought about a month ago. I'm following the watering directions that came with it (which means it's only been watered once so far) and I believe that it has the appropriate amount of light. But one of its leaves suddenly…
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