How-To-Attract-Butterflies-to-Your-Yard

It is not all that difficult to attract butterflies to your garden and have them set up house. There are two things that butterflies are seeking: one is nectar, the food that adult butterflies need, and the other, host plants, the place where the female will lay her eggs and the food that caterpillars need. Both are necessary to create a successful butterfly garden.

It does take some thought and a bit of planning but then so does any successful garden. You need to know which butterflies are native to your region. You need to know what they like to eat and where they sleep, in short, you need to know butterfly habitats and habits.

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How to Propagate Houseplants

Stem Cuttings

The advantages to having houseplants are many; they add beauty and colour to a room, give you a hobby that can provide you with pleasure and considerable satisfaction and make great gifts. Most houseplants are reasonable. They do not make tremendous demands upon your time and resources.

Perhaps, one of their greatest advantages is the ease at which you can multiply your houseplant collection, and to make this even more enticing, you can do so without spending a dime.

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Christmas Cacti

The indoor garden blossoms.

Tomatoes and Peppers

Picked this am along with green tomatoes and other peppers.

Greenhouse Tomatoes

This morning I picked the last of the black prince tomatoes growing in the greenhouse. Most are still green but the weather is getting colder and did not want to lose any. The jalapenos are still doing ok. I will give them a few more days before picking the last of them and then cleaning the the raised beds.

Looking Back to earlier this summer at the Campbellton Community Garden

Two: Chalk's Early Jewell

From the Tomato bed at the Campbellton Community Garden, saving seeds and enjoying the tomato, very tasty.