Daylilies come in any colors such as yellow, pink, burgundy and orange. You can find daylilies growing wild on the side the road in many areas of the country. They are great to have in your garden and each one can produce up to 75 blossoms from a single plant.
Your daylilies will grow in almost any kind of soil but they will give you stronger blooms if you use organic matter in your soil. Plant them in full shade to get the best results from your plants but the daylily will still produce blooms in as little a four hour of sunlight each day. The height of this plant varies from around two feet to as high as four feet. Check the package to make sure you select the right heights for your gardening plans.
Daylilies bloom in the summer and as soon as your daylily has finished producing blooms, you can divide them to get your new plants. Plant the new plants in full sun to make them stronger.
Showing posts with label Types of Apple Trees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Types of Apple Trees. Show all posts
Sunday, August 12, 2012
How to Store Your Left-Over Seeds
I’m sure you have some seeds left over every year when you get through planting your garden(s). The way you store these seeds will determine if you are able to get the seeds to produce when you do plant them.
Seeds that are poorly stored - in warm, moist conditions – will most likely be diseased and they will not give you the harvest that is expected. It is best to store your unused seed in an airtight container and put in a cool, dry place as soon as you can.
They will last for several years if storage is done properly.
Not all seeds have the same life span. Some seeds last a lot longer than others.
Some of the varieties may last a little longer or not as long as the times mentioned above
When you store your seed during the winter months, keep them in a place that has humidity of 45% or less and a mean temperature of 40° to 50° F. If they are kept in these ideal conditions your seeds will last their assigned life span and produce plentiful harvests year after year.
Most seeds, based on the number of years they will produce, can be divided into three categories;
Before you order your plant seeds you should have your garden planned and you should know exactly where each plant will be planted in your garden. You should already know how many seeds you would need to accomplish your well thought out garden plans.
The more you know about your garden before you plant your first seed, the better your entire garden will be and the better your crop will be.
It is best if you choose plants and vegetables that are native to your part of the country. These native seeds will produce a better crop because they have, for centuries, adapted to that particular region.
Seeds that are poorly stored - in warm, moist conditions – will most likely be diseased and they will not give you the harvest that is expected. It is best to store your unused seed in an airtight container and put in a cool, dry place as soon as you can.
They will last for several years if storage is done properly.
Not all seeds have the same life span. Some seeds last a lot longer than others.
- One to Two Years – Corn, onion, leeks, rhubarb, parsnip and parsley.
- 2 to 3 Years – Asparagus, beets, broccoli, beans, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, kale, lettuce, okra, peas, peppers, radish, spinach, turnip and watermelon.
- 3 to 5 Years - Tomatoes, eggplant and cucumber.
Some of the varieties may last a little longer or not as long as the times mentioned above
When you store your seed during the winter months, keep them in a place that has humidity of 45% or less and a mean temperature of 40° to 50° F. If they are kept in these ideal conditions your seeds will last their assigned life span and produce plentiful harvests year after year.
Most seeds, based on the number of years they will produce, can be divided into three categories;
- Short Life – The seeds of the vegetables in this category will last for a maximum of two seasons – corn, leeks, rhubarb, parsnip and parsley.
- Medium Life – These seeds will most often last from two to three years – Asparagus, beans, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, kale, lettuce, okra, peas, peppers, radish, spinach, turnip and watermelon.
- Long Life - Tomatoes, eggplant and cucumber all last three to five seasons.
Before you order your plant seeds you should have your garden planned and you should know exactly where each plant will be planted in your garden. You should already know how many seeds you would need to accomplish your well thought out garden plans.
The more you know about your garden before you plant your first seed, the better your entire garden will be and the better your crop will be.
It is best if you choose plants and vegetables that are native to your part of the country. These native seeds will produce a better crop because they have, for centuries, adapted to that particular region.
In The Garden Let Nature Take Control
In Japanese gardens the gardener does not put emphasis on taking control. The gardener allows nature to take control of the situation and the garden produces that which nature intended. By contrast, in European gardens, the gardener thrives for symmetry and tries to take control of the earth and force it to produce what is planted there.
The two types of Japanese gardens that are the most popular are tea gardens and abstract gardens. The abstract garden is more of a modern take of the old-fashioned Japanese gardens. They are designed more for the intellect rather than for feeling and emotions.
When you take a stroll through a Japanese tea garden you will immediately feel the sense of peace and tranquillity that the garden was designed to give. These tea gardens have strict guidelines that each gardener must follow when they create their garden. Nature scenes are recreated to give off these calm and reflective moods.
You can create your own miniature Japanese garden in your own backyard to give yourself and your friends and family their own feelings of calm and peace or to inspire the intellect. You can even transform a small space in your home into a tea garden.
Bonsai trees are excellent in your indoor or outdoor garden.
The two types of Japanese gardens that are the most popular are tea gardens and abstract gardens. The abstract garden is more of a modern take of the old-fashioned Japanese gardens. They are designed more for the intellect rather than for feeling and emotions.
When you take a stroll through a Japanese tea garden you will immediately feel the sense of peace and tranquillity that the garden was designed to give. These tea gardens have strict guidelines that each gardener must follow when they create their garden. Nature scenes are recreated to give off these calm and reflective moods.
You can create your own miniature Japanese garden in your own backyard to give yourself and your friends and family their own feelings of calm and peace or to inspire the intellect. You can even transform a small space in your home into a tea garden.
Bonsai trees are excellent in your indoor or outdoor garden.
Different Types of Apple Trees
How to Identify Different Types of Apple Trees
When you are ready to choose an apple tree for your landscape, this information can help you with apple tree identification so that you will pick the kind of tree that your really want. Some of these trees have an added bonus of beautiful flowers before the fruit appears and this gives a natural beauty to your whole yard and garden.
Braeburn Apple Tree
The Braeburn Apple has a delicious sweet flavor that is perfectly balanced with a moderate tartness that produces a unique blend that people love. The texture is crisp, firm and of course - juicy. The under color of the apple is yellowish green and is shaded by a broadly red-striped color pattern. It's eating qualities make it suitable for cooking as well as fresh and in salads.
Chestnut Crabapple Tree
The Chestnut Crabapple blooms in early to mid-May. It has a pleasant nut-like flavor. It produces a very large crabapple, up to 2" in diameter that ripens in early September. Outstanding flavor and good texture for fresh eating as well as being a pollinator. A very hardy plant with a medium storage life. The fruit quality holds well on the tree, being quite sprightly at first and becoming sweeter later on. An excellent pollinator for other fruit apples.
Cortland Apple Tree
The Cortland Apple tree is rated as an excellent dessert and processing apple. It is sweet with a hint of tartness. It has a tender snow white flesh. Cortland apples are wonderful for kabobs, fruit plates and garnishes because they don't turn brown quickly when cut.The Cortland apple is an attractive large red-striped apple that can be best described as juicy. It is an heavy annual bearer.
Fuji Apple Tree
Fuji apples have it all--super sweet, super juicy and super crisp. What a great snacking apple! Fuji apples are aromatic, sweet, juicy and crisp with a firm texture. The Fujis appearance varies from yellow-green with red highlights to mostly red. The Fujis spicy, crisp sweetness gives it exceptional eating quality.The Fuji is excellent for fresh salads. The Fuji is quickly becoming an apple with a large consumer audience.
Gala Apple Tree
The Gala apple blends modern and old-fashioned parentage.The Gala matures to a bright overall red color, with bold red stripes over a yellow background. The fruit is firm, juicy, fine textured, with a yellow white flesh. It is a highly coveted apple by the consumer, with great bouquet, flavor and color. The Gala, a fresh fruit delight, is very much in demand for fresh salads and it's got the mild flavor that "picky eaters" prefer and a striking bright yellow-red color that attracts the eye!
Golden Delicious Apple Tree
The Golden Delicious apple is an excellent all purpose cooking apple. This apple has firm, white flesh that retains its shape when baked or cooked. Its rich mellow flavor, sweet and crisp, is an asset to any recipe.You can cut down the sugar in pies and sauces made from Golden Delicious apples.The skin is so tender and thin that you can skip peeling for many recipes. It is also outstanding when used in a fruit bowl and for fresh fruit.
Honeycrisp Apple Tree
The Honeycrisp apple is a high quality apple which keeps well for 5-6 months in common storage. The tree is one of the most vigorous and hardy of apple trees, showing little damage at -40 degrees. Needs to be thinned heavily. Its flesh is cream colored and coarse.The flavor is sub-acid and ranges from mild and well-balanced to strongly aromatic, depending on the degree of maturity. Great eating apple with its subacid flavor. Develops its full aromatic flavor if left on the tree until mid October.
Indian Summer Crabapple Tree
The Indian Summer Crabapple has abundant pink flowers with an extended blooming period. It blooms with King bloom of Red Delicious apple tree. Attractive rose-red flowers in spring followed by bright red fruit 3/4" in diameter. Excellent disease resistance.Indian Summer crabapples can take cold, shifts in temperatures, semi-arid climate and brisk winds. With sweeping branches, symmetrical shapes and modest proportions they add beauty as well as providing good pollen.
McIntosh Apple Tree
The McIntosh apple is a early and heavy producer. The flesh is white, soft and fine-textured. The flavor is distinctively tangy and aromatic. The McIntosh has a rather tough skin that has mixed red and green coloring.It's a favorite apple for eating out of hand but also is widely used in salads, sauces, pies. It is a mainstay in fresh cider and an all-time favorite for fresh eating and salads. It has a large fruit and is used in juice, pies, and eating raw.
Red Delicious Apple Tree
The Red Delicious apple is Americas favorite snacking apple.The Red Delicious is the most widely grown variety of apple in the world. Red Delicious apples have firm, white or cream white flesh that is juicy, aromatic, sweet tasting. The heart shaped fruit is bright red and sometimes exhibits some red striping. Red Delicious apples look great for a long time so they are the favored choice for holiday centerpieces and wreaths. The fruit keeps fresh very well and can be found year around in stores.
S.E. Wild Crab Apple
The Southern Crab Apple tree, Malus angustifolia, also called a wild crab apple or narrow leaf crabapple, is a small tree. This deciduous tree grows fast and reaches a height of 30/35 ft. Its flowers have deep pink buds that open lighter pink, then eventually fade to white. In fall the leaves turn many shades of red, orange and gold. It has fragrant pink flowers in the spring and small green crabapples in fall. Its fall foliage is attractive. Small apples provide food for wildlife.
Snow Drift Crab Apple Tree
The Snow Drift crab Apple is a very profuse bloomer. A good pollinator for medium to late blooming varieties. It has small to medium sized white flowers that attracts a lot of bees. Snow Drift' Crabapple is a splendid tree and little pruning is required to develop a well-formed, rounded canopy. There appears to be little variation in shape among trees of this cultivar, a characteristic which is coveted by landscape architects. Fall color is good, providing a dull yellow glow for two or three weeks. It combines beauty with its great pollinating characteristics.
When you are ready to choose an apple tree for your landscape, this information can help you with apple tree identification so that you will pick the kind of tree that your really want. Some of these trees have an added bonus of beautiful flowers before the fruit appears and this gives a natural beauty to your whole yard and garden.
Braeburn Apple Tree
The Braeburn Apple has a delicious sweet flavor that is perfectly balanced with a moderate tartness that produces a unique blend that people love. The texture is crisp, firm and of course - juicy. The under color of the apple is yellowish green and is shaded by a broadly red-striped color pattern. It's eating qualities make it suitable for cooking as well as fresh and in salads.
Chestnut Crabapple Tree
The Chestnut Crabapple blooms in early to mid-May. It has a pleasant nut-like flavor. It produces a very large crabapple, up to 2" in diameter that ripens in early September. Outstanding flavor and good texture for fresh eating as well as being a pollinator. A very hardy plant with a medium storage life. The fruit quality holds well on the tree, being quite sprightly at first and becoming sweeter later on. An excellent pollinator for other fruit apples.
Cortland Apple Tree
The Cortland Apple tree is rated as an excellent dessert and processing apple. It is sweet with a hint of tartness. It has a tender snow white flesh. Cortland apples are wonderful for kabobs, fruit plates and garnishes because they don't turn brown quickly when cut.The Cortland apple is an attractive large red-striped apple that can be best described as juicy. It is an heavy annual bearer.
Fuji Apple Tree
Fuji apples have it all--super sweet, super juicy and super crisp. What a great snacking apple! Fuji apples are aromatic, sweet, juicy and crisp with a firm texture. The Fujis appearance varies from yellow-green with red highlights to mostly red. The Fujis spicy, crisp sweetness gives it exceptional eating quality.The Fuji is excellent for fresh salads. The Fuji is quickly becoming an apple with a large consumer audience.
Gala Apple Tree
The Gala apple blends modern and old-fashioned parentage.The Gala matures to a bright overall red color, with bold red stripes over a yellow background. The fruit is firm, juicy, fine textured, with a yellow white flesh. It is a highly coveted apple by the consumer, with great bouquet, flavor and color. The Gala, a fresh fruit delight, is very much in demand for fresh salads and it's got the mild flavor that "picky eaters" prefer and a striking bright yellow-red color that attracts the eye!
Golden Delicious Apple Tree
The Golden Delicious apple is an excellent all purpose cooking apple. This apple has firm, white flesh that retains its shape when baked or cooked. Its rich mellow flavor, sweet and crisp, is an asset to any recipe.You can cut down the sugar in pies and sauces made from Golden Delicious apples.The skin is so tender and thin that you can skip peeling for many recipes. It is also outstanding when used in a fruit bowl and for fresh fruit.
Honeycrisp Apple Tree
The Honeycrisp apple is a high quality apple which keeps well for 5-6 months in common storage. The tree is one of the most vigorous and hardy of apple trees, showing little damage at -40 degrees. Needs to be thinned heavily. Its flesh is cream colored and coarse.The flavor is sub-acid and ranges from mild and well-balanced to strongly aromatic, depending on the degree of maturity. Great eating apple with its subacid flavor. Develops its full aromatic flavor if left on the tree until mid October.
Indian Summer Crabapple Tree
The Indian Summer Crabapple has abundant pink flowers with an extended blooming period. It blooms with King bloom of Red Delicious apple tree. Attractive rose-red flowers in spring followed by bright red fruit 3/4" in diameter. Excellent disease resistance.Indian Summer crabapples can take cold, shifts in temperatures, semi-arid climate and brisk winds. With sweeping branches, symmetrical shapes and modest proportions they add beauty as well as providing good pollen.
McIntosh Apple Tree
The McIntosh apple is a early and heavy producer. The flesh is white, soft and fine-textured. The flavor is distinctively tangy and aromatic. The McIntosh has a rather tough skin that has mixed red and green coloring.It's a favorite apple for eating out of hand but also is widely used in salads, sauces, pies. It is a mainstay in fresh cider and an all-time favorite for fresh eating and salads. It has a large fruit and is used in juice, pies, and eating raw.
Red Delicious Apple Tree
The Red Delicious apple is Americas favorite snacking apple.The Red Delicious is the most widely grown variety of apple in the world. Red Delicious apples have firm, white or cream white flesh that is juicy, aromatic, sweet tasting. The heart shaped fruit is bright red and sometimes exhibits some red striping. Red Delicious apples look great for a long time so they are the favored choice for holiday centerpieces and wreaths. The fruit keeps fresh very well and can be found year around in stores.
S.E. Wild Crab Apple
The Southern Crab Apple tree, Malus angustifolia, also called a wild crab apple or narrow leaf crabapple, is a small tree. This deciduous tree grows fast and reaches a height of 30/35 ft. Its flowers have deep pink buds that open lighter pink, then eventually fade to white. In fall the leaves turn many shades of red, orange and gold. It has fragrant pink flowers in the spring and small green crabapples in fall. Its fall foliage is attractive. Small apples provide food for wildlife.
Snow Drift Crab Apple Tree
The Snow Drift crab Apple is a very profuse bloomer. A good pollinator for medium to late blooming varieties. It has small to medium sized white flowers that attracts a lot of bees. Snow Drift' Crabapple is a splendid tree and little pruning is required to develop a well-formed, rounded canopy. There appears to be little variation in shape among trees of this cultivar, a characteristic which is coveted by landscape architects. Fall color is good, providing a dull yellow glow for two or three weeks. It combines beauty with its great pollinating characteristics.
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