http://gardeningtips.today.com Help for the home gardener Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:38:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A yucca plant is finicky about it's food and it's location, plus the yucca usually rests a year between blooming cycles. Any or all of these reasons could be why your yucca plant won't bloom. Feeding a yucca plant with fertilizer that is high in nitrogen will cause the plant to ... http://gardeningtips.today.com/2009/12/23/why-wont-my-yucca-plant-bloom/ In order for holly shrubs to produce those bright red berries, there must be male and female holly shrubs in close proximity to each other. Here's a simple way to tell the difference between make and female holly shrubs so you be sure to plant both in your garden or ... http://gardeningtips.today.com/2009/12/16/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-male-and-female-holly-shrubs/ This is a easy to make and very effective organic insecticide that is safe to use on all vegetables and flowers. To make organic insecticide with garlic, you will need the following: 1 head of garlic, water, blender, strainer and spray bottle. Combine 1 head of peeled garlic and 2 cups ... http://gardeningtips.today.com/2009/12/14/how-to-make-organic-insecticide-with-garlic/ Ants, bees and wasps want to get at the sugar water inside a hummingbird feeders as much as the hummingbirds do. Here are some simple tricks you can use to keep these unwanted pests away from hummingbird feeders. To keep ants away from hummingbird feeders, place a piece of double sided ... http://gardeningtips.today.com/2009/12/09/how-to-keep-ants-bees-and-wasps-away-from-hummingbird-feeders/ While we love the beauty of the fall foliage, raking the fallen leaves are a different issue. If you will view the fallen leaves from the perspective of how they will help your garden produce more vegetables, raking the leaves may not be such a dreaded chore. Fallen leaves are good ... http://gardeningtips.today.com/2009/11/05/garden-tips-fallen-leaves-are-good-for-composting/ In the south, we pickle everything, including watermelon rind. The only drawback to pickling watermelon rind is when the entire watermelon is not eaten in one sitting and you need to save the watermelon rind over the course of a few days. To save the watermelon rind for pickling under these ... http://gardeningtips.today.com/2009/10/29/how-to-save-watermelon-rind-for-pickling-until-all-the-melon-is-eaten/ Peeling a tomato may seem harder than herding a bunch of cats into a tow sack, but it's not, if you know a trick or two. To easily and successfully peel a tomato, you will need a pot of boiling water and a bowl of ice water. Bring a pot of water ... http://gardeningtips.today.com/2009/10/22/how-to-peel-tomatoes/ Sounds simple enough; pick up the houseplant pot and bring it indoors. There's a little more to it than that, if you want your houseplant to live through the winter indoors. If you have kept your houseplant outdoors during the summer, to suddenly bring it indoors and changes it's climate will ... http://gardeningtips.today.com/2009/10/09/how-to-bring-houseplant-indoors-for-the-winter/ October is a great time to dig new flower beds or vegetable garden plots for next year. If you plow or till up the ground now, it will destroy weed roots and destroy weed seeds before they can germinate. Add plenty of organic matter to the soil like compost or well ... http://gardeningtips.today.com/2009/10/08/garden-tips-for-october/ Many pests that attack garden vegetables and fruit trees during the spring and summer months over-winter in the debris that is left in the garden or under fruit trees. A fall clean-up of these areas will remove the pest's winter hibernation home and help prevent a pest infestation. Cucumber beetles, squash ... http://gardeningtips.today.com/2009/09/22/garden-tip-prevent-pest-infestation-in-garden-vegetables-fruit-trees-with-fall-clean-up/