Archive for the ‘Annuals’ Category

Online Catalogs Make Ordering Seeds Easy

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

The easiest and quickest way to find the seeds you want to plant this year is through online catalogs. Seed companies like Select Seeds, Gurneys, Henry Fields and more make it fun and easy to select the best varieties for your area. They even group them together so that if you want to find seeds for a fragrance garden, cottage garden, edible garden, perennials, foliage or container plants, you’ll find great pictures and growing information.

One caution though. Be sure not to get too carried away with your choices especially when ordering vegetable packets. Only grow what you and your family can reasonably eat.

Learn more about ordering from online catalogs at our website at www.MidSouthGardeningAdvice.com

Shop at Gurneys.com for your vegetable and flower seeds!

Salvia-Deer Resistant Annual Saves the Day

Friday, July 10th, 2009

We’re getting pretty feed-up with how the deer are eating all they can find in our yard. So far, we are doing fairly well with using deer-off products such as Deer Scram Deer & Rabbit Repellent from Mastergardening.com, but I forgot that deer also like okra and portulica. Consequently, they have gotten the best of us with those two plants.

I’m excited to say that they haven’t eaten my hydrangeas that I love to dry. I owe that to the product mentioned above. I trained our beloved deer early in the season not to like those plants with weekly spraying for the first three weeks and once a month after that.

Although you can have success using such deer and rabbit off sprays, another great way to garden with deer is to plant deer-resistant annuals and perennials.

That brings us to our featured video this week which is the annual Salvia.

This plant is deer-resistant and fairly drought tolerant. It goes well in the front of your garden, drys well for arrangements (actually looks like lavender), and is good in fresh arrangements as well.

Click on the link below to check out the video of growing annual salvia on Youtube.

Salvia – A Great Deer-Resistant Annual

To learn more about growing salvia, please visit our website at www.MidSouthGardeningAdivce.com.