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Plant potatoes at night so that the eyes do not see light.

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If you plant peppers when you are crazy, the peppers will get hotter.

When a red-haired person plants peppers, they are hotter than normal. Will they be really hot when planted by an angry redhead?

My mom swears the only way to get rid of a locust tree is to cut it down on a black night in August.

Sage thrives in the garden of a woman who tightly rules her household and husband.

Stolen plants grow better because “they want you to feel guilty”.

Do not thank anyone for seeds or they will not sprout, and do not thank them for a plant or it will wither and die.

Eat sugar before planting fruit trees to make the fruit sweeter. If I thought this would work, I’d love to plant fruit trees and eat candy bars from the Milky Way.

You may have heard the old adage that potatoes should always be planted on Good Friday. This is an old women’s story that should be forgotten. Good Friday does not fall on the same calendar date every year, and many parts of the country are still buried deep in snow at this time. I like this one though because I think I was a little late getting my potatoes into the ground this year.