What to do in the garden this week.
1. If you are planting a new garden or evaluating an existing one this spring in terms of its water needs, consider drip irrigation options.
You can now acquire underground drip tubing for around 50 cents a foot. Emitters are embedded in the tubing at 12 or 18-inch spacing. With such a system, evaporative water loss is nullified and water savings are profound. Such an application is especially pertinent to parkway strips where, if you want to go with drip everywhere, above-ground tubing would be exposed to foot traffic and could be a trip hazard.
Pineapples, named for their resemblance to huge pine cones, originated in the Brazilian rain forest. They were brought to Europe and North America by sea voyagers in the 15th and 16th centuries and grown in heated greenhouses known as “pineries.” George Washington was among those who grew them in this manner. Pineapples were brought to Hawaii in the early 1800s. A hundred years later, 22-year-old James Dole arrived there and developed the first successful pineapple canning operation.
As your wildflowers bloom, you are encouraged to send photos along with their history to the email address below.
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