Never Have Stuck Garden Hose Attachments Again!

Sometimes, for various reasons, you can leave a garden hose attachment, like a watering wand, a spray gun, sprinkler, or spray nozzle, on too long and then it is a bear to remove.

They can get stuck on from calcification from the water, or sometimes they can rust on. Many people may end up cutting them off. The problem can be avoided all together by simply doing this:

Before you ever attach anything to your garden hose, first wipe the threads with petroleum jelly, so that the attachment's threads don't get stuck to the hose threads. Pretty simple - huh?

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How To Clean Suede Gardening Gloves

Clean Suede Garden Gloves Easily

Softer leather gloves such as suede or goatskin become very stiff as the dirt grinds in, which makes them uncomfortable to wear.

Plus, if you're bad about getting dirt inside your gloves and grinding it into your finger tips, eventually you'll have to wash your gloves.

The problem: Washing suede or soft leather can make it stiff and unwearable, so here is what you do:

1. Put them into the washer with your jeans and other dirty clothes. They will come out fairly clean.

2. Hang them to dry.

3. Then, every very few hours, knead and squeeze them gently so they wouldn't get stiff.

Your gloves will last longer by doing this because the dirt doesn't wear away the leather and the finger tips as quickly!

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New Introductions for 2008

New Plants For 2008!

Some exciting new plant material is available for 2008. To the right is Maze 'Garden Leader Rainbow'.

It's an ornamental corn with tricolor foliage and small ears of multicolor corn. Great for landscape or containers.

This is just 1 of over 25 new flower and vegetables we have listed.

To see them all go to: New Plant Introductions 2008

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What is a Gesneriad?

Do you know what a Gesneriad is?

First of all, gesneriad is pronounced either "guess-NARE-ee-ad" or "jez-NARE-ee-ad".

Secondly, gesneriads, are plants that are in the family "Gesneriaceae", which contains over 2,500 species of plants, the best-known being the African Violet.

Most gesneriads are from tropical and subtropical regions and come in a wide variety of plant sizes, shapes, flowers and colors.

In addition to the African Violet, some of the more common gesneriads grown by hobbyists are:

Florist Gloxinia (Sinningia speciosa)\

Lipstick Plant (Aeschynanthus)

Goldfish Plant (Nematanthus)

Cape Primrose (Streptocarpus)

Flame Violet (Episcia)

Cupid's Bower (Achimenes)

There is an acutal Gesneriad Society which you can read more about at: http://www.gesneriadsociety.org


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