Local News from Across the Rainy River District
Have you ever thought about adding a vine to your landscape or garden? Vines—whether annual or perennial—may be just what you need to add a focal point with some height, cover an unsightly object, grow fruit, or just add a special plant to your landscape. The first step is to […]
Fungus gnats are those little hopping bugs you see when you water your indoor plants. They are small, with black or gray bodies and clear wings, and look like a cross between a black fly and a fruit fly. Although not very strong fliers, they do fly around the house […]
Is the daylily the perfect perennial? They can grow in a wide range of soil and light conditions, have few insect problems, can tolerate drier conditions, and come in hundreds of varieties. Daylilies can be planted in a variety of landscape settings—positioned to make wonderful background plantings, naturalized in ditches, […]
The radish is a cool-season, fast-maturing, easy-to-grow vegetable and one of the first crops from the vegetable garden each year. Radishes grow well in almost any soil that is prepared well, fertilized before planting, and has adequate moisture maintained throughout the growing season. Slow development, usually caused by hot, dry […]
The cyclamenis offered to us as a houseplant often are found in the fall and winter at our local florists. Because of this, greenhouse-grown cyclamen usually are forced to bloom sometime around the Christmas holiday season and into the late winter. Cyclamen have sweet-scented, small flowers (half-inch to three-quarters of […]
When starting seeds indoors, you do not have to worry about the weather, insects, or the myriad of plant diseases and fungi that can affect your outdoor vegetables, trees, or flowers. There is, however, one disease you must be concerned with when starting seedlings in the house or greenhouse and […]
Here in the dead of winter, it’s hard to imagine a garden. A garden with soft, warm soil–soil you can sift through your hands while the warm breezes tickle your neck and the sun threatens sunburn. It’s hard to imagine little radish leaves peaking out on Friday when you only […]
Anyone who has a garden of any kind, or lives in the country, knows there are a lot of things which attack our plants of all kinds. Here are just a very few of the common ones. oColorado Potato Beetle: This is the common “potato bug,” about 3/8 of an […]
