Welcome to Dave's Garden, the website where friends share their triumphs and dilemmas in their home gardens and their lives. Dave's Garden is also a place for gardeners to share seeds or plants with other gardeners, and has so much to offer, you are certainly going to find something that will have you coming back daily, as well as making you proud to tell your friends and family about your new gardening home on the net. Here are some of the features you can access right away:
My grape vines, already many years old when I moved here, grow up the sides of the barn and one outbuilding. Underneath the vines are hundreds of nails, spikes, wires and other fasteners added over time to support the heavily-laden vines when fruiting. Not the best way to support grapes!
Today’s hybridizing techniques are taking watermelon to a new high for nutrition and health. Fresh watermelon is still available, so don’t miss out on its summertime flavor and nutritional benefits. Learn from watermelon growers on how to grow the many varieties of this super fruit in your own garden.
We continue our exploration of the varied types of leaves by focusing on leaf margins, leaf tips and leaf arrangements. These characteristics vary as widely as the others I've covered in previous articles. Knowing more about them will aid you further in properly identifying and distinguishing different plants. . .
There have been a few posts on here about Assassin bugs and wheel bugs. I started one of the threads when one bit me-quite painful too! On another thread, I mentioned I had never seen one with a "wheel". Now I have! Argument View Responses (5 replies)
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With close to 300,000 members, Dave's Garden is an amazing resource for beginning and experienced gardeners alike. Inside, you'll find over 200 forums dedicated to just about every type of gardening pursuit and plant issue you can think of. From annuals and bonsai trees to vegetable gardening and winter sowing; from tips on seeds and planting to advice on regional gardening - it's a gold mine for knowledge from experienced gardeners from around the world.
Enthusiasts of all types of gardening niches will find fertile soil here for growth as gardeners and as community members. Be it water gardens, vegetable gardens, hanging gardens, flower garden, container gardens, or raised bed gardens, there is a place here where you are going to fit right in!
Among our interactive forums, we have an amazing plant identification database with over 36,000 species of plants and 140,000-plus images. Another great resource is our bug identification database. It's essentially an insect encyclopedia with over 4,500 insects listed and showing over 3,000 insect images.
We invite you to sign up and stay awhile. Your participation is always encouraged and you gardening and plant knowledge is valuable.
We're glad you could stop by! Since 2000, we've strived to be a comprehensive gardening community with gardening forums for discussion on a wide variety of topics. We have members who are knowledgeable on soil, weather, watering, just about every kind of plant, and just about every kind of insect. Our special section on trading seeds and plants continues to grow in popularity as does our section on the home life and leisurely pursuits of our gardening enthusiasts (we can't always be with spade in hand, behind a rototiller, or out harvesting our ripe produce).
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