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Gardening Daily TipsFor JoyceMonday May 26, 2008

Forsythia (Forsythia suspensa)

Q & A: Bolting Lettuce

Q & A: Peonies Flop Over

Tip: Succession Bean Planting

New Comics: "Non Sequitur" and "Mother Goose and Grimm"

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Q & A: Bolting Lettuce

Question: I always plant red leaf lettuce which can be picked as needed. However, after about a month, a center stalk appears and fewer leaves grow. Why does this happen, how do I avoid this? Answer: Lettuce plants mature and go to seed very quickly. The stalk you are seeing is the stem on which a flower and subsequently seeds will be produced. There is nothing you can do to stop the process. Cool weather may slow it down, but the plants will eventually produce a flower stalk and go to seed (called bolting), and it happens fastest in hot weather. Many gardeners make successive plantings of lettuce every other week or so. This will provide a continuous supply of young, vigorous lettuce to harvest from early spring through fall. There are varieties that are more bolt-resistant -- look for this quality when reading descriptions in seed catalogs.

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Q & A: Peonies Flop Over

Question: My peonies always flop over. If I pinched the plants back early in the spring, would that help to keep them more compact, as it does with my mums and petunias? Would it affect the blossoming? Answer: Peonies should not be pinched as this would destroy the flower buds. Instead, stake or otherwise support the plant to keep the flower stalks from flopping over. To do this, you can use a special "peony ring," or you can set stakes around the perimeter of the plant and run string around and among the stakes, spider web style. Another method is to set a hoop of chicken wire (or other larger wire mesh) over the plant in late winter. It will grow up through the wire, and the flower stems will be supported.

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Tip: Succession Bean Planting

To produce small amounts of beans all summer plant 4 to 5 foot rows of bush beans every two weeks until July. Crops will mature at different times giving you a steady supply into fall.

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New Comics: "Non Sequitur" and "Mother Goose and Grimm"

ArcaMax is pleased to make available two new comic strips -- Non Sequitur and Mother Goose and Grimm -- to the more than two dozen comics available from the ArcaMax Funnies. Non Sequitur brings award-winning cartoonist Wiley 's special brand of humor to life in one-panel format every day of the week. And Mother Goose and Grimm is a regular reader favorite in newspaper surveys all across America. Sign up for one or both -- and see what else the ArcaMax Funnies has to offer! Subscribe to Non Sequitur instantly. Find out more before subscribing. Subscribe to Mother Goose and Grimm instantly. Find out more before subscribing. -- From the ArcaMax editors

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