July is prime time for some lawn TLC Jul 2, 2009
Finally, you can watch a bare spot in your lawn and it will grow in over the course of a couple of months or so as the root rhizomes grow into the area. Or you can reseed and enjoy a fuller lawn in a matter of two or three weeks. (Anchorage Daily News)
East Africa: Banana Blight Puts Livelihoods at Risk Jun 18, 2009
They either do not produce fruits, and when they do, they are hard and inedible to either humans or animals and they cannot be processed even," Khoury said. Bananas and plantains are the world's fourth most important food crop after rice, wheat, and maize. BXW symptoms include premature ripening of fruits, pale yellow ooze from cut surfaces, wilting of bracts and male buds, and progressive yellowing leading to complete wilting. Plants generally show symptoms within three weeks of infection.... (allAfrica.com)
Seagrass issues brought center stage Jun 17, 2009
A prop scar is a trench cut into the bay bottom by a propeller which cuts the roots and rhizomes of the seagrass plant loose. The amount of time for a prop scar to heal is highly variable. (Rockport Pilot, TX)
False Lily of the Valley May 31, 2009
It grows most easily from rhizomes that can be purchased in the fall at native plant nurseries. These long, thin roots yield a small number of leaves the first spring. (Suite101.com)
The Hardy Cattail May 24, 2009
They can reproduce from their rhizomes, which means that they often create dense marshes thick with cattails ... Since it reproduces underground and pops up from rhizomes, one cattail can spawn many, many more in a small area ... The rhizomes are not harmed by fire, so it is ideally suited to the native grassland environments where it thrives as one of the first species to emerge after a disturbance. (Suite101.com)
Green Thumbs: Sensational summer bulbs May 23, 2009
These large fleshy rhizomes with large nodules or eyes should be planted horizontally, 3 to 4 inches deep. Rhizomes multiply readily and can be easily divided each spring. (Hanover Mariner, MA)
In Northampton, farm life within city limits May 13, 2009
In a nearby field, close to a pair of soccer nets, asparagus rhizomes and a sour cherry sapling grow. Kids run around a geodesic dome-shaped jungle gym. (Boston Globe)
Check It Off: April gardening tasks Apr 6, 2009
q Plant summer bulbs, corms, rhizomes and tubers such as agapanthus, amaryllis, tuberous begonias, callas, cannas, dahlias, gladioli and tigridia. q Set out container-grown, summer-blooming annuals and perennials such as cosmos, delphiniums, impatiens, lobelia, hollyhocks, marigold, nasturtium, petunias and verbena. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Ugly bulbs bear the garden's most beautiful flowers Feb 25, 2009
The real planting adventure begins with weird-looking blobs, scaly thingamabobs, tentacled doohickeys and fleshy doodads we call roots, tubers, corms, rhizomes and bulbs. If you saw an eremurus tuber (Foxtail lily) lying around before planting, you'd probably stomp it, thinking it was an escapee from one of those horror flicks about giant insects invading Earth. (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Delta Journal: sea oats Feb 19, 2008
Sea oats spread asexually via rhizomes, basically underground stems that occasionally produce a new plant before continuing on. They may reproduce sexually, being fertilized by wind blown pollen. (Nola.com -- Sports)
Beautiful invaders Feb 3, 2008
Its aggressive growth is derived from its ability to spread by rhizomes, stolons or seeds and its allelopathic compound (toxic substance) that practically eliminates all other vegetation around it in older stands. Myers-Shenai said some nurseries are mistakenly selling this under different names. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
For a fresh look around the house try ferns Jan 13, 2008
The name comes from the furry rhizomes (fleshy stems that serve as food storage organs) that will eventually creep over the sides of the pot. The fronds are somewhat stiff and triangular and will vary from a light apple green to an almost grey green depending on the variety. (Westerly Sun, RI)
Bamboo, flowers and famine Jan 7, 2008
If you've ever seen a dense bamboo forest in the wild, you'll find the ground riddled with rhizomes seeking an open spot to send up a new clum or shoot. Seed would have little chance of finding an open spot without competition for limited water from the adults. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Zesty Ginger, Fresh and Dried Dec 27, 2007
Young ginger rhizomes are juicy and fleshy with a very mild taste. Mature ginger roots are fibrous and nearly dry. (Suite101.com)
Growing and Using Your Own Ginger Nov 16, 2007
Ginger Rhizomes Can Be Grown Indoors And Have Many Uses ... The tuberous rhizomes of this plant are dug up, ground, chopped or left whole, then sent to local grocery or health food stores ... Rhizomes may be harvested at any time, but should be allowed to grow for three to four months before taking your first harvest. (Suite101.com)
More Essential Culinary Equipment Nov 13, 2007
Nutmeg grater - Used to grate whole nutmegs and other hard spices such as dried turmeric rhizomes. Pots and pans - available in many materials such as non-stick, stainless steel and cast iron. (Suite101.com)
Cottingham: Asters bloom late into the season Oct 9, 2007
The one in my garden is 'Raydon's Favorite' and doing well despite the drought". Aster oblongifolius is technically Symphyotrichum oblongifolium now, but most books and nurseries choose to use the aster name and snarl at the taxonomists that keep shuffling all the plant names around. The common name is aromatic aster because the leaves have a pleasant fragrance when crushed. The really nice thing about that is that although we love pretty fragrances, deer do not. This aster is native through... (Athens Banner-Herald)
Nuts about ginger Sep 2, 2007
The older, more wizened roots (actually they are rhizomes, but Sunday morning is not the time to split hairs) contain more potent and concentrated juice used by the Chinese for mutton and medicine. You can determine the age of ginger by its weight and appearance, but there is still the temptation to scratch and sniff. (Guardian Unlimited)
Rhubarb and Apricot Crumble Aug 8, 2007
Rhubarb is a plant that grows from year to year from large fleshy rhizomes. It has very large leaves and long stalks, sometimes up to two feet tall and about two inches in diameter. (Suite101.com)
A Simple Lawn Fertilization System Jul 30, 2007
Whatever food grass plants manufacture at this time goes directly to the roots and rhizomes. This carbohydrate food builds up these storage organs for the winter ahead and for next spring's growing season. (Suite101.com)
Weeds and wildflowers - Gems abound among the brush Jul 23, 2007
This plant produces a large, yellow taproot and spreads from the sprouts of numerous rhizomes and roots. It reproduces by seed. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
South Dakotans battle the heat Jul 17, 2007
Leaves dry up and turn brown as the plant shuts down and channels any reserves to its crown, rhizomes and roots. Referring to a publication from South Dakota State University, Lewis recommends applying one-quarter to one-half inch of water once every two to four weeks. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Jewels strewn along the wayside Jul 16, 2007
This plant produces a large, yellow taproot and spreads from the sprouts of numerous rhizomes and roots, as well as reproducing by seed. In the past, preparations made from red sorrel were used to treat urinary and bladder diseases, and Native Americans used it as an antidote for poison. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Bamboo shoots up in test-tube garden Jul 16, 2007
" For now, though, Heinricher is concentrating on bamboos for the garden: ground covers that can replace lawns, well-behaved clumpers that can be planted in pots or as screens, and tall timber bamboos for those who have the room. The timber species are not invasive, she insists, if you put them in the right place with plenty of room, and maintain their growth by planting them on a mound, encircled by a shallow trench, about 10 inches wide and 8 inches deep, where the rhizomes can be cut easily... (San Francisco Chronicle)
A breakthrough for bamboo growers Jul 6, 2007
It comes in clumping varieties that behave themselves and in running "timber" types that spread by rhizomes - great for a grove, but not so good when they are planted as a property screen that escapes into a neighbor's yard. But that very vigor is why environmentalists hail bamboo as the new "It" plant for saving the earth. (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
Cottage Garden Flowers Jul 2, 2007
Favorite Cottage Garden Summer Bulbs (Corms Rhizomes and Tubers). Dahlila. (Suite101.com)
Invasive plant removed near Russian River Jun 30, 2007
In the wild, Arundo, which spreads by means of underground rhizomes, is more destructive than useful and is hard to get rid of. ome five thousand acres of Russian River Basin is infested with arundo, said Noelle Johnson, who is conducting Circuit Rider's arundo outreach program. (Sebastopol Sonoma West Publishing, CA)
Organic chemistry (Ann Geracimos) Jun 13, 2007
"Get compost in the soil and do that by top-dressing the lawn in the spring and fall. That way, the lawn becomes self-sustaining and resistant to disease." The fall is best, he says, because that is when "grass plants are growing new rhizomes and stolons for the next year. It is happening below ground, and we don't see this. They are getting plumped up. Most people do the opposite of what they should. Then we can do a secondary, much lighter, application in the spring." (Rhizomes are white... (Washington Times, DC)
The Indomitable Iris: May 28, 2007
The tiny borer larvae hatch in the spring, climb up the iris leaves, chew into them, and eat their way down inside the leaves, reaching the rhizomes by midsummer ... After chewing tunnels through the iris rhizomes, they spin themselves a shiny chestnut-colored chrysalis, hatch, and breed a new generation. (Slate)
GARDENING: Two flower shows offer a feast for the eyes and gardens Apr 19, 2007
Expect to find hundreds of rhizomes offered for sale. Admission is free to both shows. (Las Vegas Review-Journal -- Life)
Summer is much more than bulbs Apr 19, 2007
Calla lilies, tuberoses and cannas sprout from rhizomes ... Like bulbs, corms, tubers and rhizomes store food and energy below ground ... Corms, tubers, tuberous roots and rhizomes don't look at all alike and are planted and cared for very differently. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
Turn your garden into a tea sampler Mar 25, 2007
A seductive tea can be made from the fleshy rhizomes of common ginger, Zingiber officinale, a shade-loving tropical from Asia ... Plant the rhizomes a few inches down in pots full of rich, fast-draining soil; then water and feed often through summer. (Orlando Sentinel)
Fighting cogongrass Mar 19, 2007
A native of Asia, cogongrass spreads through wind-blown seed and rhizomes, and once established it can choke out native plants, destroy sources of food for wildlife and raise the potential for forest fires ... They also spread through the rhizomes, even if they arent producing seeds, he said. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Pot of Ginger Can Spice up a Window Sill Mar 9, 2007
Harvest can begin as soon as five months after planting, but longer is needed for the rhizomes to fully plump up. No need to unearth the whole plant; just poke into the soil with a knife and take what you need. (The Ledger)
In brief: Hot licks Mar 8, 2007
They look alike: gnarly rhizomes with fingerlike appendages. But galangal's segments look more like swollen big toes; the skin is tan with dark banding and a smooth surface, in contrast to ginger's brown coarseness. (Anchorage Daily News)
Bamboo: For beauty or privacy Jan 26, 2007
It's their keepers who fail to control the rhizomes, or underground stems, which can shoot out as many feet as the plant is tall in just a month or two. "You just need to understand the plant," says Schumacher, a retired engineer who has about a dozen bamboos - aggressive and not - in his half-acre garden in Wallingford. (AZCentral -- Home)
Seed dispersal Jan 17, 2007
Other species don t bother much with seeds but spread through rhizomes, or underground stems, such as wild ginger and day lily. Runners are an aboveground variation seen in strawberries. (Suite101.com)
Spice Healer Jan 15, 2007
TURMERIC (Curcuma longa) grows rhizomes, tuberous underground stems, from which the spice of the same name is produced. Searching for new drugs by milling through ancient folk pharmacopoeia or by just picking a plant while walking in the woods has a decidedly checkered history. (Scientific American)
