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Entries for August 2009

Grasshoppers

Posted in: Garden Pests

These green and brown hoppers are generally beneficial in the garden. They eat some weeds, attract birds and other wildlife, and their droppings enrich the soil.

Simple Soil Test

Learn what type of soil you have with these simple steps.

How to Roast Sunflowers

Simple instructions for preparing a healthy snack right from your garden.

Fall-Flowering Favorites

Fall-flowering favorites, as well as choices for beautiful autumn foliage, berries, and seeds, that will keep the color alive in your garden this fall.

Honeysuckle Vine

The eccentric blue-green leaves, the miniature red and orange trumpets, and the small red berries make this a showy, sassy climber.

Golden Elder

The compound leaves of this suckering shrub are yellow to golden-green, and it carries clusters of fragrant white flowers in spring and red berrylike fruits in the fall.

Canadian Wild Rye

Bright green flower spikes that appear on graceful, nodding stems above clumps of bluish-green leaves.