You can also feed cactus with Flower-Tone organic flower food every 10 days. They need a drink of Miracle-Gro liquid plant food mixed with proper amount of water once a month and to dampen them with water every seven to ten days. As winter moves along, the cactus produces runners that need to be trimmed to promote new growth. Buy seed now and store in cool dry place.Īt the end of January, the Christmas cactus looks healthy in the sunny living room. Four o’clocks will also thrive on the edges and corners of your garden plot for plenty of foliage and color. My Northampton County grandma had beds of them growing in the acid soil of her front yard. The speckled and marbled varieties can be ordered from Park Seed and Burpee catalogs.
You can purchase them in packets from Walmart, Home Depot, Lowe’s Home Improvement, Ace Hardware, Food Lion, Lowe’s Foods and hardwares. They produce plenty of lush green foliage and will bloom from late May until early October. Four o’clock bushes provide flowers in colors of red, white, pink, rose, wine, and yellow. Plan for plenty of color in the year of summer 2022 flower garden with plenty of four o’clock bushes. Always be present in the room where an oil lamp is lit. Always use oil lamps on a solid surface and away from the reach of children. Webster Brothers Ace Hardware in Walkertown has a great selection of oil lamps, brass spare burners, wicks and an inventory of scented oils. They are certainly a great investment for any season of the year. Instead of kerosene oil they feature lamp oil in different scents that burn clean. Many hardwares feature quality oil lamps, with spare wicks, burners and lamp oils.
They are handy when batteries are low and the heat goes off. Technology in the 21st century is good, but when it fails, an old fashioned quality oil lamp filled with lamp oil is a practical item to have in reserve when power goes out. On snowy or icy days or freezing mornings, empty ice or snow from birdbaths and refill with fresh water.
There is water on the streets but with snow removal, it has salt in it, and that may be hazardous to their health. With ice and snow in the birdbath and other sources of water covered with snow, birds have a difficult time finding water. No snow day is a success without these items. Whether you love snow or not, its something you have to deal with so why not deal with it before it occurs? Several items you will need ahead of time for a snow day to be easier to cope with are windshield washer fluid, a durable ice scraper and brush, several cans of de-icer, a snow shovel, a bag of ice melt, a small whisk broom, bread for sandwiches, some quick snacks and junk food items, evaporated milk for hot chocolate, a gallon of milk to make snow cream, plenty of sandwich material and frozen pizzas. There is a certain amount of excitement in a forecast that says snow is on the way. A winter snow will melt the heart and bring excitement to the soul. It opens the nostrils and lungs and perks up the immune system, generates a sense of excitement, and brings an atmosphere of calm and excitement to a restless world. “Some are cold and a few are frozen,” but those who like snow are special and chosen. It soaks into the winter lawn, kills wintering insects, weed seeds, eggs and larva and harmful organisms in the soil, beautifies the landscape and excites kids. Winter snow will blanket the garden plot, sweeten the Siberian kale, enrich the soil with nutrients, build up the water table, and enlarge the turnips. Hopefully, we can have a hefty snow or two in February. 26, and it is said to be winter’s coldest day, but with February just outside the door we could be in for more cold weather than Saint Hilary could dish out. We celebrated Saint Hilary’s Day on Wednesday, Jan. That may seem like a long time in winter, but spring will be here before you know it. When February arrives, we will have only 49 days until spring. As we approach the February, some of winter’s coldest days may be ahead, but February is a month with only 28 days. Winter’s longest month will come to an end tomorrow.
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