Your All Things Plants weekly news: March 22, 2014

There were 7 new gardening ideas posted last week:

By SongofJoy March 22, 2014 Short-Day, Intermediate-Day, and Long-Day Onions Many onion varieties will be sold as either short-day onions, intermediate-day onions, or long-day onions. (180 words - Read the full article) (no comments)

By Trux4 March 21, 2014 Water Chestnuts Next time you make a salad or stir fry, imagine crunching on a sweet water chestnut harvested fresh from your garden. I decided to try to grow water chestnuts in my home garden in Central Florida using fresh lake water in a half whiskey barrel. (116 words - Read the full article) (9 comments)

By HollyAnnS March 20, 2014 Overwintering Hardy Pond Plants If you have a small water feature either above ground or with very shallow water, you may wonder about the best way to overwinter your hardy pond plants. (171 words - Read the full article) (6 comments)

By Carolyn22 March 19, 2014 Building a Pond When people put in a pond, after the pond has been built, they usually wish they had gone bigger, so plan your pond to be as large as the space for it allows. (1,254 words - Read the full article) (5 comments)

By Eric4home March 18, 2014 Portable Ponds Do you live in an apartment or townhouse or are you thinking of moving in a few years? Is digging a pond an issue for you? Then an above-ground water garden is perfect for you. Small above-ground water gardens have many advantages. No digging, no wading in to clean them, lower cost, and portable. Just look around and think out of the ground. (409 words - Read the full article) (16 comments)

By beckygardener March 17, 2014 Container Water Gardening Anyone can create a water garden. A pond is not necessary. Instead, just about any container that holds water will do! It is very easy to create and nearly effortless to care for. Everyone should have at least one water garden featured in their yard! (844 words - Read the full article) (19 comments)

By Oberon46 March 16, 2014 Plan Well for Your First Pond or Plan on Redoing It the Following Year I imagine that some people build, or have built, ponds and get it right the first time. I suspect that most of us build one and then learn all about the issues we should have looked into before the big outlay. I had my entire back yard landscaped, including a 2800 gallon pond with waterfalls, with hardly a thought. Oh my, what a mistake. The following article shows the errors, the afterthoughts, the redux, and the final product. Still not perfect, but as good as could be done within the original parameters. (871 words - Read the full article) (20 comments)

The most popular images last week from our plant database: Photo of Daylily (Hemerocallis 'Patricia Snider Memorial') by shive1: Photo of Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica) by dave: Photo of Three-Leaved Stonecrop (Sedum ternatum) by chickhill: Photo of Lily (Lilium 'Red Life') by dellac: Photo of Iris (Iris x hollandica 'Delft Blue') by Kelli: Photo of Iris (Iris 'Mallory Kay') by bramedog:

The most popular Multi-Plant Photos from last week: Multi-plant photo by kosk0025: Multi-plant photo by pirl: Multi-plant photo by Paul2032: Multi-plant photo by Paul2032: Multi-plant photo by ge1836: Multi-plant photo by Paul2032:

Noteworthy acorn tips given this week:

8 people gave for a post in "Banner for March 18, 2014 by Newyorkrita" by Newyorkrita 8 people gave for a post in "Banner for March 21, 2014 by SongofJoy" by SongofJoy 6 people gave for the idea "Container Water Gardening" by beckygardener 5 people gave for the idea "Building a Pond" by Carolyn22 4 people gave for the idea "Plan Well for Your First Pond or Plan on Redoing It the Following Year" by Oberon46 4 people gave for the idea "Portable Ponds" by Eric4home 4 people gave for a post in "Banner for March 17, 2014 by Dutchlady1" by Dutchlady1 3 people gave for a post in "Farm stand fruits and vegetables" by saltmarsh 3 people gave for the idea "Overwintering Hardy Pond Plants" by HollyAnnS 3 people gave for a post in "Banner for March 16, 2014 by Newyorkrita" by Newyorkrita

The most active threads this week:

Subject	OP	Area	Replies
Brand new Whitinger!	dave	Site Talk forum	122
Weather In Your Garden - Spring 2014	daylily	Daylilies forum	33
Have several of this volunteering and seem to be getting more	Seedfork	Plant ID forum	31
Banner for March 21, 2014 by SongofJoy	SongofJoy	Site Banners forum	22
All of my evergreen daylilies went dormant. LOL.	virginiarose	Daylilies forum	20
Banner for March 18, 2014 by Newyorkrita	Newyorkrita	Site Banners forum	19
Support for a Healthy Lifestyle- Spring	Newyorkrita	Sandbox forum	19
Gravel, grit, etc.	fixpix	Rock Gardens forum	18
Viewing "New" photos	growitall	Site Talk forum	18

Some new recommendations from our members:

Toni recommended Victory Seeds and wrote: Victory Seed has been a very valuable seed company. They have a very informative web site that I frequent often. They have always, promptly answered all of my questions. I also find great value in their seed preservation effort, and wonderful selection of rare, open pollinated, and heirloom seeds. Everything I have ordered from them over the years has performed wonderfully. I highly recommend this company.

Some numbers from last week:

• 52 new members.
• 133 new threads.
• 4,026 new posts.
• 1,707 new images to the plant database.
• 89 new comments in the plant database.
• 22 new Multi-Plant photos.