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Dec
10
How to change color of flowers
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Be in charge of the color of cut flowers from your florist: learn how to change the color of flowers.
The easiest way to become creative in coloring flowers is to get some white carnations like in the picture above and add some food color in their water. Let them suck a bit, take them out of the die and see what happens. If you let them to long into a green color, the flowers does turn out looking like celery leaves:
How to color flowers green
You don’t have to start with white carnations though, any long stemmed white flower that you put in a food or aniline dye will become more colorful afterwards.
If you are a bit more adventurous, place your flowers – choose flowers with colors this time – over a basin of water which contains a very small amount of ammonia in a bell glass. The flower petals will usually change color:
- many violet-colored petals will change to green,
- red colors will become green,
- white will turn yellow and
- dark carmine will turn black.
Violet-colored asters can be moistened with a very mild solution of nitric acid. The ray florets will not only turn red but will also
acquire a pleasant scent.
Especially if you need to keep your kids entertained indoors these winter days, teach them how to change the color of flowers using food dye.
May
22
Best way to grow tomatoes
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Enjoy tasty and juicy tomatoes from your garden all summer long learning the best way to grow tomatoes with our step by step instructions or with Lucia and Annette’s How to Grow Juicy and Tasty Tomatoes Ebook (only $29.95 with Money Back Guarantee).
Because tomatoes are a summer crop, now is a good time to start!
Grandmother’s best way to grow tomatoes
My mom is now in her 90s and still grows tomatoes in big stone pots. If she can do it, you can do it to.
The best way to grow tomatoes is doing everything right from the beginning:
Sowing tomato seeds
Sow your tomato seeds in a seedling tray with a good potting mix from your florist. Buy your seeds from your nursery or garden shop.
If you want to stick to grandmother’s ideas, buy Heirloom seeds online and re-use the seeds from the tomatoes you will harvest (that’s what Heirloom seeds are all about).
Always put 2 seeds together and separate each pair of tomato seeds 3 fingers or so from each other, so they are easy to transplant afterwards.
After sowing tomato seeds, put sand on the top and sprinkle lightly with water.
Put the tomato seeds in the shade so the soil doesn’t dry out. Only put back slowly in direct sunlight once the seedlings come out.
Planting tomato plants
Start planting tomato plants in the main pot after a couple of weeks. Dig a hole as deep as your hand to accommodate the tomato with the soil on its roots.
How to plant tomato
If you don’t know how to plant tomato, ask your florist where you buy your little tomato plants from to do it once for you. Basically it goes as follows:
- make sure to keep all the soil around the roots of the tomato plant
- plant the tomato as deep as the first real leaves
- My mom stimulates root growth of her tomatoes using the water in which she washes her fish she eats daily. Lucia and Annette advice a seaweed solution for those that don’t eat fish every day like my mom does
- mulch the soil to keep in the moisture: the better your roots, the bigger your tomato plant is going to be.
To gard against pest, like white fly, you should plant some marigolds or chives with your seedlings.
Potted tomato seedlings need to be watered every 2 days during the cooler part of the day to reduce evaporation.
When to harvest tomatoes
Different people have different ideas about when to harvest tomatoes. I prefer to harvest my tomatoes a few minutes before I put them in my summer salads.
Others harvest tomatoes when their color changes from green to red, yellow or orange in order to get a bigger harvest. Since my harvest is always plentiful, I keep the tomatoes on the plant as long as possible. Fresh tomatoes taste best when they come straight from the plant on your plate!
It takes between 60 to 120 days before most tomato varieties will fruit. So I suggest you ask your florist for at least 1 tomato variety that fruits the fastest, so you can enjoy tomatoes from your garden in July:
Sub Arctic Plenty Tomato produces ripe fruit in just 50 days from transplant (see picture above)
- Tumbler is the fastest cherry tomato to harvest and takes only 45 days to maturity (see picture on the right).
Choose between all Cherry tomato varieties with their maturity dates.
Lucia and Annette did the same thing: asking experienced gardeners how they grow their tomatoes
To help you begin and guide you all along the best way to grow, harvest and eat your homegrown tomatoes you can buy Lucia and Annette’s Ebook "How to grow juicy and tasty tomatoes" now online for only $29.95 with Money Back Guarantee.
Sep
26
Types of nut trees
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From the 4 types of nut trees we have, our most abundant nut harvest is happening about. Our walnut trees are producing again a whole harvest for the whole neighbourhood 
The above picture shows 1 walnut still in its ‘green cover’ – the hull – and the leaves are colouring due the autumn (it has been freezing at night already). We just wait until the nuts drop down, so they can ripen the most and the sun dries and breaks the hulls around the nut shells.
Some people prefer to harvest their nuts now, but have a lot of work removing the green hulls… why rush when the sun can do all the work for you: wait until the nuts drop from the tree and then dry them further in the sun…
4 types of nut trees
The above walnuts of course are my favorite, as they give the biggest harvest. We also have chestnut trees, hazelnut trees and pecan trees.
Our pecan trees are more for adoration than for production. Pecans love a warmer climate for their nuts to ripe than here.
Our chestnut tree is also producing nicely but I prefer chestnuts the most for their flowers.
And the most fun of our 4 types of nut trees are our hazelnut trees. Fun because it’s kind of a feeding ground for squirrels and it keeps the wind out of our garden.
Which types of nut trees are you growing?
