Growing garlic in your garden. Garlic is a spice or herb that is essential to all cooks. Growing your own garlic can make any food you prepare taste better with fresh home grown garlic. Garlic is best started in the garden in early fall, for southern gardens some varieties can be started in early spring. Visit our blog section on how to grow garlic.
Plants that will thrive in acid soil:
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Here at OH! My Garden I tell of the trials and tribulation and the pleasures of gardening in the South, while dealing with sandy soil. The soil is an acid soil we work hard to get it to a more balanced growing level. Certain plants love this acid soil such as azaleas, rhododendrens, camelias and gardenias. I have accumulated a list of perennials, annuals, shrubs and trees that are acid loving plants. My favorite plants are herbs and I am working on an assortment of herbs to get growing in my garden. Since my sandy soil is not the type of soil some herbs need to grow, I have started some raised herb beds to help accomplish my goal of having a large variety of herbs.
 Miniture Gardenia See our Blog on rooting Gardenia's Adding to your plants can be a great pleasure. Here is a way to easily propagate most of your plants. Take a plastic drink bottle cut in half, cut several drainage holes on the bottom, add some sand then potting soil mixed with peat moss. Dip your cuttings in a root tone and place them in the soil being sure the end is in the sand. Water and replace the top half, place in a cool lighted area. Replace water as needed. Rootings will be ready to repot when new leaves and growth appear.
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Successful Gardening, choosing plant partners:Shrub partners are choosen as a permanent back drop for bulbs, annuals and herbaceous perennials. Border partners: Mixed borders can consist of shrubs, perennials, bulbs, and annual bedding plants. Rock garden partners: Combine dwarf shrubs, alpines with small bulbs, and carpet-forming plants to create natural rock garden charm. Tree team-ups: Group them for an impressive show or add clever underplanting for contrasting shape, foliage and color.
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