Ed Hume Answers Your Gardening Questions
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Other November Links
 Can you tell us what to do
about 'blossom rot' on plants from your Pik Red tomato seeds? The plants
look healthy otherwise, but the tomatoes are rotting. The rot starts with
brown spots at bottom (or blossom site) of fruit and rots from there.
 Over-watering or lack of calcium
(lime) in the soil causes blossom end rot. This year it is probably too much
water, although either can cause the problem. We grow Pik Red here at the
warehouse and at our home garden and they are doing great, but we do lime
them in springtime and go light on water during the summer.
I have started my pampas grass
from seed. It has done well and is now about 8 ins tall and I still have
it in a pot. I am wondering if I should keep it inside over winter or sink
the pot in the ground outside over winter.
It would be a lot easier to
care for outside. But, should the weather get below the mid-twenties the
plant should be mulched or covered for winter protection. Or, as you mention
leave it in the pot, then bring it inside during cold spells, then back outdoors
as soon as the weather moderates again.
I have a huge Calla Lily plant
at the new house we moved into last fall. Aren't these supposed to
be split every couple of years and what is the proper way to split them?
No, they do not need to be
divided every two or three years. Usually it is only done when the parent
plant begins to decline a bit. In many gardens this is only once every 5
to 10 years. Then, simply dig the clump and separate the roots. You may need
a knife or ax to separate some of the older roots.
Hi, we have been given seed
pods for a wisteria vine, and don't know how to plant them {or when} They
are still in pods-but dry.
They really can be started
at any time, but are usually started in mid to late February. Plant them
in a light potting soil, barely covering the seed. Start them indoors in
4 inch pots, then transplant outdoors after all danger of frost has passed.
Wisteria are seldom started from seed because the seedlings will not be identical
to the parent plants. Also, they are very easy to start from cuttings or
shoots in soil or even water, and the plants started from cuttings will be
identical to their parent plant.
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