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2B Seeds Gardening Newsletter
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 The original Wave Petunias are the low-growing ground-cover type that also trail and hang over walls and baskets. If you are wanting a mounding and spreading petunia, the Easy Wave Petunias are your best choice. Easy Waves are less sensitive to day length for flowering. Tidal Wave Petunias are the hedgiflora type that grows up and out. Tidal Waves work best for large landscape and large containers. Use a slow release fertilizer as Waves are vigorous and require more feed than grandiflora and multiflora types. This fertilizer will give your plants the extra long term support needed to perform as no other petunia.
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Trapping, Baiting and Collecting a Garden Enemy - Slugs.Slugs have been the bane of gardeners since gardening began. They thrive in cool moist soil, the very same soil that the seedlings and young tender plants they eat thrive in. Unfortunately there isn't really anything out that will totally eliminate slugs altogether. There is hope with several techniques that can be employed to protect your garden from these pests, and minimize the damage these beasts can wreak on your garden. First try Snail tape, it serves as a barrier. It is tape of elemental copper backing mat holds a natural mild electrical charge that slugs and snails won't cross. This tape only works well on a raised bed or container garden. Lay this tape on the outside edges of your garden. Another option for those who like to organic garden, and recycle, is a barrier of various organic materials: crushed eggshells, ash, soot. Smooth a line a few inches wide around the area you want to protect. Apply a two-inch wide line of this around it. Another way is to use these next hints together. Tapping slugs as the first thing I ever learned about gardening from my grandfather. Place beer containers all around your garden, then gather up a few tubs, like margarine or yogurt containers. Bury these between your rows, so that the edges are about an inch up off the soil. This will keep beetles out, since beetles eat slugs, we want these beetles safe. When the slugs climb in they get stuck and die without any food. Baiting is broken down into several categories. There are many commercially available with baits and poisons, most contain aluminum sulfate, they might be worth looking into but are not the only option. Slugs like to eat where it is dark and moist, try placing lettuce leaves between your rows, then each morning go out with tongs and a bucket of salt water and flip over the lettuce and gather the pests up, or use a few squares of wet cardboard or old wet carpet strips, same thing each morning go out and turn over and collect the slugs. Collection will not eliminate the slugs, but combined with baiting it will help a lot. Also, slugs do have natural enemies. Frogs and toads love slugs.
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Snap Beans Connect us to the Past.
Green beans are as ubiquitous to the American table as mashed potatoes or
broccoli. They offer a splash of color for your plate, and their long, slender
silhouette dresses up even the most humble meal. Botanically speaking, all
snap beans are members of the legume family. Break one of these beans in
half and listen for the snap� thus their name. They are often called string
beans because of early varieties had strings that ran along the seams of the
pods. Modern varieties are often bred to be stringless, so this is no longer so
much of a concern. What�s unique about snap beans is that they're entirely
edible. Most beans have tough, fibrous pods, and must be shelled, however
snap beans have tender, slightly sweet tasting pods.
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Our Seeds are What the Professional Growers UseDon�t Be Fooled By Lower PricesThe seeds that you purchase from 2BSEEDS are selected for their Highest Quality and Highest Germination percentage of 80 % and higher. These seeds are first rate, top of the line varieties not offered with the same quality by other seed companies or box stores. We strongly believe that the best ended products start from the best beginnings, and that is what we offer to you, our customer. Our primary focus is to insure that you are successful in your plantings with the highest quality seed available today. We offer many F1 hybrid varieties with Winners from the (AAS) All American Selections and the (FSM) Fleuroselect Medal. That means that they were selected for their outstanding performance in nation wide trials. Detailed seed=tip of seed is trimmed for easier ability to sow. Pelleted seed=each pellet is coated so you can see the seed. Multipelleted seed=coated seed with 4-7 seed per pellet.
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5023 W 120th Ave #312 Broomfield, CO 80020 WWW.2BSEEDS.Com Phone: 1-800-865-4340 Fax: 1-800-566-7510 E-mail: [email protected] We have emerged from four generations of professional and commercial growers. Starting in 1919 in Golden Valley, MN we were pioneers in what has evolved into today�s world of hothouse tomatoes. We have grown professionally flowers, vegetables for the local market. Over the years we have expanded into growing bulbs, fresh cut flowers and bedding plants from private selections and the best genetics. And now we bring to you what professional growers use for their seed. Our primary focus is to insure that you are successful in your planting with quality seeds. |
 2006 Gardener�s Catalog Email for your copy at [email protected]
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