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- Some Great Gifts For Your Gardening Friends
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description of some gifts to consider for your gardening friends. These gifts make the work of gardening a bit more comfortable or easier. Having the right tool for the specific task is not only a time saver but gets the job done correctly and more efficiently.
- Choosing and Planting the Right Vine For Your Garden
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Some helpful information about which vine to choose for your garden including what to think about in you overall design concept. Informative gardening tips are listed for particular types of vines.
- The Versatility of Flowering Vines
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description of how flowering vines can enhance your gardening pleasure. A lot of the versatility of vines has to do with the fact that vines can either stay close to the ground functioning as groundcovers or climb and be used to decorate trellises, arbors and fences. Gardening tips help you select which vines will work best for your purposes.
- Aerating Your Lawn
[Home-Improvement:Landscaping-Outdoor-Decorating] The benefits of aerating your lawn and how to do it. Lawn aeration reduces soil compaction caused by poor drainage, heavy use by sports activities and vehicles. How to determine if aeration is needed the steps to take to aerate properly.
- Cool Season Grasses
[Home-Improvement:Landscaping-Outdoor-Decorating] Cool season grass types planted in the United States for lawns include Kentucky blue grass, the fescue grasses, colonial bent grass, creeping bent grass, annual and perennial ryegrass. Some are used predominantly on the west coast and others on the east coast. A description of each type is given along with the pros and cons of using them.
- Dethatch Your Lawn to Keep it Healthy and Beautiful
[Home-Improvement:Landscaping-Outdoor-Decorating] Dethatching your lawn helps to keep it healthy and beautiful. Thatch is the layer of plant material that builds up around your roots which drys out the lawn and makes it turn brown. How to determine if you have too much thatch and how to dethatch your lawn and what time of year is best to do it.
- The Right Soil and Site Preparation Are the Key Ingredients of a Successful New Lawn
[Home-Improvement:Landscaping-Outdoor-Decorating] The best way to ensure you have a beautiful lawn is to prepare your soil and perform the proper site preparation before the lawn is seeded. The steps taken include rock, stump and other debris removal, rough grading, tilling of the soil, adding additional topsoil and compost and then testing the soil and making needed soil adjustments. Final grading is then performed and a lawn roller is used to firm up the surface prior to planting the chosen grass seed.
- Oriental Poppy Flowers Will Pop in Your Garden
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] When Oriental poppy flowers are in full bloom, they definitely can be the focal point of your garden display in late spring to early summer. The Oriental poppy is the most striking of the perennial poppies. Their blooms are huge - some may reach up to six inches across and are on the top of stems as tall as four feet.
- The Versatile Sedum
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description of sedums, also known as stonecrop, which grow well in perennial borders, containers, and in rock gardens. Information on how to propagate them is given along with other helpful gardening tips.
- Winterizing Water Gardens
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Explanation of what to do with your water garden feature when the temperature starts dropping. Description of the normal transitions involved and how to oversee them and keep them in control so a healthy ecosystem is maintained throughout the winter months.
- Keeping Tender Plants Safe Over the Winter
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Guidelines to bringing some annual plants and summer bulbs indoors to grow larger or keep safe during the winter months until they are ready to be brought outdoors again in the spring. Normally these plants would die with the frost and would just be replaced the following season.
- Mums and Asters Are in Full Bloom
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Chrysanthemums, better known as their nickname, "mums," are popular perennials that display a wonderful array of color when the tree leaves are also turning on a show of similar colors. Not only do mums come in a wide variety of colors, but also come in numerous sizes from small dwarf to giant shrub.
- Plants to Plant Now
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] When we think of our vegetable garden in the Fall we usually think of harvesting it. Surprisingly though, there are a few edibles planted now that will be ready to eat in only a few weeks. They thrive in the cooler temperatures happening around now.
- What Grows in the Shade
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] If you want to achieve success in gardening, be careful to choose plants that are adaptable to their surroundings and environment, whether it be Mediterranean climate; bog and water; woodlands or prairies; sunny, partly sunny or full shade. There are more shade plants than you might imagine. Most perennials that bloom in spring, summer and fall do best with the sun beaming down on them at some point to make them flower.
- How to Keep Your Perennial Garden Looking Great Season After Season
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Now that you have planned, selected and planted your garden and you feel that it is looking the way you want it, it is up to you to maintain it so that it keeps on looking great season after season. Using the simple strategy outlined here, the maintenance task needs not to become overwhelming. The best way to retain moisture in your perennial beds is to apply mulch.
- Hardy Hostas
[Home-Improvement:Landscaping-Outdoor-Decorating] Description of the shade perennial hosta. The hardy hosta can transform brown and barren into green and abundant. Fun to use because of its numerous varieties offering color, size, and shape options to garden designs. Easily maintained when planted in well-drained, moist compost-enriched soil.
- Peonies Passion
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description of the different forms of peonies. A perennial with bushy foliage blooming large globe-like flowers in many colors giving an exciting focal point to your flower bed or borders. With a tuberous root structure, peonies are tough, need little care, and are easy to grow.
- Growing the Herb - Oregano
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Just as growing your own vegetables to cook with, there is nothing quite like growing your own herbs to use to flavor your cooking. If you are a cook who enjoys using herbs in your recipes, consider how much more tasty it will be to add your own freshly grown herbs snipped from pots on your windowsill garden.
- Dark Opal Basil
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] A great plant to grow in your herb garden is basil. A beautiful species, 'Dark Opal' basil lends both flavor and color to culinary creations. No other herb is so exuberant and bountiful as basil. When you would pick from your herb garden, a few fronds of parsley and dill, or a sprig of rosemary and thyme, you would pick an armload of basil.
- The All-Time Favorite - Roses
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Many gardeners become passionate about their roses. It is easy to understand why with their great beauty in numerous varieties of sizes, petal shapes, and color; and no need to mention their luscious, lingering scent.
- Get the Most From Your Fallen Leaves
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Nature's way of returning the nutrients back to the tree is through the leaves of the tree. Fallen leaves contain up to 80 percent of the nutrients that a tree absorbs during its growing season. Leaves return their store of nutrients to the soil when they are allowed to decay on the ground. The nutrients are reabsorbed by the tree's roots and channeled back to a new season of growth.
- Gardening Chores For the Fall
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] A check list of chores to do in the fall to prepare your perennial garden, vegetable garden, and lawn for the winter months. Many helpful gardening tips provided to keep all in healthy condition.
- The Show of Colors in Autumn
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description of the leaf color change that happens in the fall and why it takes place. A list of different trees and what color their leaves change to is given to increase your horticulture knowledge.
- Environmentally Concerned Fall Garden Clean Up
[Home-Improvement:Landscaping-Outdoor-Decorating] Cutting down and clearing all summer garden growth is not necessary in the fall. Learn of some gardening tips to save time doing to fall chores while making your garden grow healthier, more beautiful and environmentally better.
- Planting Bulbs
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description of what to do about planting bulbs in your garden including different design pattern concepts. Gardening tips mixed in to help the gardener do it successfully.
- Working in a Stream to Your Landscape
[Home-Improvement:Landscaping-Outdoor-Decorating] Creating a stream with a waterfall that meanders along a slope tumbling over rocks, and trickles through nooks and crannies ending up in a pool can be an expensive landscape project choice, but indeed, is quite worth the effort when done right. Its ambiance plays a prelude to and extends into all the other gardening set around it creating an Eden-like environment. Working with the principal that water always flows downhill, it is important to build a water garden that is scaled appropriately to your property.
- Mulching Your Garden
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] It is a good practice to spread mulch on top of your soil around your plantings every spring and fall. Mulch your garden when you want to suppress weed growth, retain moisture in your soil, keep your soil cool, plus make your garden even more attractive. This ground covering comes in many varieties.
- Keeping Your Lawn Looking Good
[Home-Improvement:Landscaping-Outdoor-Decorating] Some things to consider when wanting to improve the appearance of your lawn are where you are located, what type of grass is most prevalent, what products you apply or have been applied to your lawn such as insecticides, fungicides, or herbicides, whether your lawn has been fertilized and how often to you water or irrigate your lawn. Others include if you have re-seeded or recently added sod, have had soil tests done on your lawn, and at what height the lawn is mowed and how often.
- The Most Important Garden Duty to Master
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Obtain some knowledge about when to water and how much to water your garden with the watering tips described here. Find out when your garden is too wet or too dry. Learn to recognize a good moisture balance in the soil.
- Today More People Choose to Garden
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Description of the modern-day gardening movement emerging in the United States as the concern for the environment grows along with the growing economic situation. Starting a vegetable, fruit and herb garden requires only a modest financial investment while it reaps plenty in benefits.
- Water is the Key to Success When Transplanting
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] A step-by-step explanation of what is involved when transplanting. Precautions are recommended to make for a successful transfer. During the whole process watering is very important.
- Watering Your Garden
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] It usually is best to allow the soil in your garden to partially dry out between watering your plants. If you can see your footprints in your lawn or if it lacks overall shine then it's time to water your lawn. Annuals and vegetables should be watered at the first sign of droop.
- The Contemporary Cottage Garden
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] To begin, let's explain a bit about the history of cottage gardens. The cottage garden has its roots in 18th century England. At that time it was very practical with folks relying on their gardens to supply them with their family's needs.
- Starting Your Garden From Seeds
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Here are some basic gardening tips that will enable the novice to begin learning about growing plants from seeds. It describes the materials necessary and how to use them properly to get the best results.
- Providing Proper Watering to Your Garden
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Descriptions of the many options available to the home gardener for irrigating vegetable gardens that are simple to use and work very adequately. The most common way is with the garden hose, and an easy, very convenient way to store the hose when not in use is with the garden hose reel.
- Are You Over Watering Your Garden?
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Here are some basic watering tips that will keep your garden from being too wet or too dry. A good balance of moisture in the soil is key to the success of your garden. A hose reel can make watering your garden an easy task.
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