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"The Wyoming Gardens Guide to
The Best Plants for Your Landscape"
The 249 plants and trees in this 74 page e-book
guide are extraordinary, and they offer
beauty and ruggedness for the home, rural property and business
landscape. As you look over these plants and trees, chances are many of these
plants will be unfamiliar to you. But each plant is adapted to our
Wyoming growing conditions, and should work very well for you. One of
Wyoming Gardens' core values is
to educate our readers about these wonderful plants, and we
have done so in the guide's descriptions and tip boxes.
Our e-book guide
gives you full color photos of every one of the 249 plants and trees, its
common name, its scientific name, a description, its hardiness zone,
water requirements and sun/shade tolerance. Use this Guide to help you choose the best plants for your personal landscape conditions.
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Sample Plant Listing in the Guide
Tartarian Maple
Hot Wings Tree
(Acer tataricum 'GarAnn')
Plant
Select 2007
Consistent, breath-taking scarlet red samaras (seeds) appear in
summer giving this tree the appearance of being in bloom! Outstanding
autumn color as the leaf color migrates from orange-red on the
outside to yellow in the middle of the tree. Tolerates a wide range
of soils and is drought tolerant. You will love to
grow this spectacular tree!
With summer vegetable season in full swing, we need to be concerned with blossom end rot on our tomatoes, peppers and squash.
Although blossom end rot is common in Wyoming, there are preventive
measures to take to minimize loss, based on the probable causes.
Blossom end rot looks just like it sounds.
The primary cause of blossom end rot is a calcium deficiency at the
blossom end of the fruit, and this deficiency causes the tissue to die.
Watering or fertilizing heavily in the early summer, and less during the
late summer periods, also adds to the problem. Excessive fertilization
with nitrogen or high levels of salts also restricts the plants uptake
of calcium from the soil.
If
you notice symptoms of blossom end rot, spray the leaves and fruit with
1-2 tablespoons of calcium chloride or use 1 to 2 tablespoons gypsum
per gallon of water. Two applications are recommended at 1-week intervals.
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"Potato Helper"- Fertilize Your Spuds!
by Jim Gill
Well,
you potato growers should be thinking about giving your potatoes in the
garden a boost of nitrogen fertilizer to help them get through the rest
of the season in good shape. A couple of heaping tablespoons of
granular nitrogen applied per 10 foot of row will really be beneficial
to the plants.
Be
careful not to get the granulated fertilizer on the leaves, because it
will burn the leaves when it gets wet. Spread it underneath the plants
at the top of the row. A good time to add this additional fertilizer is
when the plants are fully blossomed. It goes without saying too that
those spuds need lots of water, especially at blossoming.
Ah
man, nothing beats new potatoes and peas fresh from the garden in my
book. It rates right up there with the first few ears of sweet corn
fresh out of the patch.
Do you or a
neighbor have a tree that sends up sprouts or woody-knobs from its roots? This
can be quite a problem, especially when we go to mow the lawn. The Silver
Poplar, cottonwood, aspen and many other trees are famous for this.
This situation can cause real friction between neighbors
I'll tell ya. Help is on the horizon. A chemical called Napthaleneacetic acid
is being bottled and sold in many horticulture retailer stores as "Sucker
Stopper", "Sprout Stopper, etc. It does a nice job of killing the sprout where
it surfaces. The nice part is that it does not translocate back to the parent
plant and cause harm or damage. This helps to maintain harmony with the
neighbor whose sprouts you are spraying out.
This isn't fast acting stuff, so have some
patience if you choose to use it.
Do
you like the massive beauty of a weeping willow but don't feel you have
the room for it in your yard? You might want to consider the Prairie
Cascade Willow Tree as an alternative.
This
has the handsome golden colored stems that the weeping willow does in a
smaller tree. The branches cascade over as the name implies but don't
bear down nearly as far as the bigger weeping willow does. It is quite
hardy and a good one to consider for our Wyoming environment.
Like
any willow species, this will need plenty of moisture to survive and
thrive. As always, lets put a nice bark mulch ring around it to keep the
weed whackers and grass away. The bark also helps to keep those roots
cool during the hot days of summer.
With summer vegetable season in full swing, we need to be concerned with blossom end rot on our tomatoes, peppers and squash.
Although blossom end rot is common in Wyoming, there are preventive
measures to take to minimize loss, based on the probable causes. 
Well,
you potato growers should be thinking about giving your potatoes in the
garden a boost of nitrogen fertilizer to help them get through the rest
of the season in good shape. A couple of heaping tablespoons of
granular nitrogen applied per 10 foot of row will really be beneficial
to the plants.
Do
you like the massive beauty of a weeping willow but don't feel you have
the room for it in your yard? You might want to consider the Prairie
Cascade Willow Tree as an alternative. 