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Cucumber Pickling Homemade Pickles Homemade Pickles has a solid and crisp interior that is perfect for 1 to 5 inch pickles. Homemade Pickles produces cucumbers for quite a long period of time. This plant has excellent disease resistance, has very high yields, and is ready to harvest early. Cucumbers have a shallow root system and therefore require regular moisture. Do not plant late as hot temps may preclude good flowering. The Cucumber Homemade Pickles, 'Cucumis satiovus', is arguably the best cucumber available for pickles. Making pickles at home is easy with Homemade Pickles. Do not let cucumbers get too big because the vines stop producing if over mature cucumbers stay on the vine.

A Gaggle Of Gourds The Gaggle of Gourds, 'Lagenaria siceraria', is an assortment of hard shelled gourds that creative crafters will love. Once cured, hard shelled gourds will last indefinitely and can be painted, carved, cut or drilled to make birdhouses, bowls, planters and hundreds of other craft projects. This gourd mix includes Birdhouse or Bottle Gourd, Calabash or Penguin, Corsican, Dipper, and Speckled Swan. Gourds are very frost sensitive. Plant 2 to 4 weeks after average last frost date and when soil temperatures have risen above 60 degrees. Place in full sun.
A Real Shady Blend The Real Shady Mix, Flower Blend, provides color even in a shady garden spot. (Eighteen different flowers total. )In cool climates plant in the spring, 1 to 2 weeks before the last average frost date. In mild climates, sow seed during cooler months, generally October through March. Soil must be kept moist while the seeds are germinating and beginning to grow. This mix covers approximately 200 square feet.
Drop Dead Red Sunflowers This sunflower will grow in almost any soil but it blooms and thrives best in rich garden soil. The Drop Dead Red Sunflower would be an excellent addition to a wildflower patch or naturalized area receiving little or no care. Sunflowers are easy to grow from seed, and bloom for an extended period from mid-summer to fall. Sunflowers can be planted in the spring after the last average frost date. Keep the plants attractive by removing spent flowers.
Florist Favorite Yellow Sunflowers The Designer colors include Apricot Twist, Lemon Sorbet, Moonshadow, Lemon Eclair, Stella, Lemon Aura, Pro Cut Orange, and Peach Passion. Florists favor these mid-sized, pollen-less, F1 hybrids for mixed bouquets. It's easy to fill your home with professional-looking floral arrangements when you grow this mix. The single and double blooms range from pale to vivid yellow and they will provide a striking collection for beds and borders. This sunflower will grow in almost any soil but it blooms and thrives best in rich garden soil.
Perennial Bloom Most perennials require minimum maintenance once established. Some of the perennials included are Basket of Gold, Black Eyed Susan, Blanketflower, Coneflower, Cottage Pinks, Shasta Daisy, Forget Me Not, and Mexican Hat. In mild climates, sow seed during cooler months, generally October through March. Be sure to keep the weeds pulled so they do not compete with the flowers for water and sun. They provide an enormous array of colors, shapes, textures and bloom times, year after year.
Terrific Trailing Baskets These seven varieties are a fabulous mix of color, form and texture. Some of the varieties contained in this mix are Blue Bird, Moss Verbena, Lobelia Cascade Mix, Maiden Pinks, Nolana paradoxa, Dianthus deltoides and Creeping Zinnia.
Dried Delights The Flowers, Dried Delights, will help you enjoy bouquets from your garden year-round when you grow these flowers. The Dried Flower packet contains seed of 20 different flowers that lend themselves to drying. Some of the flowers contained in the seed packet are Baby's Breath, Bells of Ireland, Chinese Lantern, Green Thumb, Love in a Mist, Money plant, Pampas Plume, and Strawflowers.
Grandmothers Cutflower Grd They have a wonderful range of colors, shapes and textures to enliven a whole season's worth of bouquets. In mild climates, sow seed during cooler months, generally October through March. This mix covers approximately 100 square feet.
Sweet Baby Blue The Sweet Baby Blues mixed flowers includes dainty Baby Blue Eyes, cheerful Five Spot, sky-blue Forget Me Nots, and vivid California Bluebells. The flowers are a range of sixteen pastel and blue shades, and a variety of delightful shapes and textures for a low growing summer border. This mix covers approximately 100 square feet.
Short Meadow This mix of twenty-two annuals and perennials, none more than 24 inches tall, is ideal for naturalizing sunny open areas, slopes, long borders, parking strips and cottage style gardens.
Xeriscape Extreme Soil should be kept moist while the seeds are germinating and beginning to grow.
Bring Home The Butterflies Soil must be kept moist while the seeds are germinating and beginning to grow.
Hummingbird Haven This mix covers approximately 14 square feet.

 

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