Day: June 25, 2020

Secrets to harvest tender, sweet Collards greens

Posted on By Cristian

Collard greens are a type of leafy green vegetable that belongs to the Brassica family, which also includes kale, broccoli, and cabbage. They are a cool-season crop that is typically grown as an annual vegetable in most regions. With Collards, you need to be little patient and these needs pampering in summer and the best…

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Leafy Greens take center stage in the fall garden

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The fall garden can be decorated at its best to get highlighted in the fashion show. Its beauty at this time is worth praise and can be very surprising due to the lush green color.During the fall, your garden holds the capability of growing variety of vegetables and salad. The leafy green vegetables are mostly found in this period.
Collard greens ever step back and gives out the big green leaves that are purely eatable. In this season, the leaves are more nutritious.

Collard greens
Collard greens

Old timely blue Collards is another type with purple sticks in between the leaves and give a blueish

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Planting a Clematis

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Planting a Clematis it’s not difficult but you need to take into consideration some useful advices and also know the basic needs of this plant. The beautiful Clematis flower it’s often called the queen of climbers. Clematis are mainly of Chinese and Japanese origin.

Clematis is a climbing plant of the buttercup family which bears white, pink, blue or purple flowers. It is vigorous and very good for covering walls, pergolas. They also love to grow up on trellis or arbors. Clematis grows very fast, if properly taken care of. Planting a Clematis can be done in containers (pots) or directly in the soil. It’s important to give them the best possible start. Clematis can be planted at any time of the year but some gardening experts recommend planting them in fall. The weather is beautiful in fall and it’s a great time for planting Clematis. More than that, an advantage of planting clematis in fall it’s that the plants have had the whole spring and summer to grow, so you can pick up really beautiful plants from the garden centers.

  • clematis
  • Pink and white flowers with green leaves.
  • Purple clematis flower in sunlight
  • Purple flowers in a black pot on patio.

There are two important things, when it comes to growing Clematis. One is the fact that they like to have a nice sunny location and second, the most important thing of all it’s that the pot needs to have really good draining in the bottom of the container, or the soil must be free draining.

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