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conserves moisture, conserves nutrients in the soil, and helps prevent the spread of disease and insects.
Fruit and nuts
• If you want a few homegrown fruits, but have no garden you can grow dwarf fruit trees, figs, strawberries, blueberries and even grapes in containers.
• The flavor and yield of strawberries vary from year to year depending upon spring growing conditions. Excessive rainfall dilutes the flavor of the berries and increases loss from fungal diseases.
• Strawberries picked early in the day keep best. Do not wash or stem berries until ready to use. Store berries in covered containers in the refrigerator.
Flowers, trees and
shrubs
• Collect seeds of poppy, wild indigo, and bleeding hearts. Fall bloomers that get too tall, such as chrysanthemum, can be cut back by about one half now to reduce their fall height.
• Spring-flowering shrubs,
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