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- Growing an Indoor Herbal Garden
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] As winter approaches, you begin to miss those fresh herbs and vegetables that you grew over the summer. A simple solution is to start growing fresh herbs indoors, learn how easy it can be.
- Houseplants That Clean the Air
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Many people do not realize how having house plants in their home or office can help keep the air clean. Learn which plants will give you the best in air quality.
- Garden Tool Gift Sets
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Find out the perfect gift for giving to the avid gardener. Have you ever wondered what would be the perfect gift to give someone? It's hard to find gifts for some people and this can be especially true for garden lovers. Serious gardeners are in a world of their own, and can be notoriously picky and choosy about their gardening tools and accessories.
- The Different Types of Garden Mulches
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] There is a large variety of mulches that can be used for home gardening. Learn which ones will best suit your gardening needs.
- Essential Jobs For Fall Clean-Up
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] One of the most essential jobs come fall when it comes to cleaning up and out your garden is the removal of any and all damaged or diseased materials. When plants have had a fungus or bacteria over the summer growing season they can over winter on the roots and stems that have been contaminated.
- How to Successfully Fertilize Your Garden in the Fall
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Question: What promoted the growth and health of a beautiful spring garden? Answer: Knowing how to fertilize and prepare it in the fall. Good gardening fertilization techniques in the fall is essential to a healthy garden come next spring.
- Taking Full Advantage of Fall Gardening For Next Year
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Discover the easy and fast method of preparing and getting your garden ready for next year. Early fall preparation is an easy way, find out how.
- Planting a Spring Garden in the Fall
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Lear how to take advantage of one of the best seasons of the year. Learn how to get a head start on next year's spring flower or vegetable garden by planting now.
- Growing Lettuce in Your Fall Garden
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] When you plant lettuce in the fall of the year it is extremely productive since the four basic types have the same basic growing requirements. Leaf lettuce is the easiest to grow and has the most varieties. This type will produce loose bunches instead of a solid head and it comes in various colors and textures and grow very well in cool and warm weather. When ready to harvest it is best to cut he leaves off at least an inch or two above the ground and it will reproduce giving you a second crop.
- Garden Tomato Hornworms
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] A tomato horn-worm can literally destroy your garden. Learn how to prevent and eradicate them before thay take over.
- When to Harvest Your Garden Tomatoes
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] The length of time that it takes a tomato to bear fruit from the time it is planted varies. Depending on the type that you planted the growing and fruit bearing time can be as short as 50 to 65 days for a short season type tomato or as long as 80 to 90 days for late season varieties.
- Easy Garden Weeding
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Weeding a garden can be tedious but not if you know the easy correct ways to do it. Learn how to keep your garden almost weed free this summer.
- Diseases of the Tomato Fruit
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Growing a garden can be fun, but it can also be devastating when your crop is ruined. Learn what disease can wipe out your entire tomato garden and what to do to stop and prevent it.
- Should You Prune Your Tomatoes?
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Pruning tomatoes is really a matter of choice, as to whether or not you should is up to the individual. Learn whether to prune or not and how to prune if its necessary.
- Common Tomato Foliage Diseases
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Learn what to look for when your tomato plants seem to be infected with a disease. Discover the proper ways to treat and prevent it from spreading throughout your garden.
- Three Effective Ways to Stake Your Tomatoes
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Learn how to prevent tomato plants from drooping and sagging as they begin their growing period and begin to develop fruit on their vines. An effective way to prevent tomato plants from sprawling over the ground and onto other garden vegetables is to stake them. When tomatoes are left to grow without training, as they begin to mature they start to spread and sprawl over everything, because the vines become too heavy from thee fruit. Climbing plants such as tomatoes need to be trained; the best way to do this is by staking them with a strong tomato stake that is made of wood, bamboo or heavy plastic.
- Planting Tomatoes
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Yes its that time again, time to get ready and start to plant one of the most popular plants in a home vegetable garden. Tomatoes are actually quite easy to grow and they come in hundreds of colors and shapes depending on the variety.
- Container Garden Basics
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] When you only have a few feet of balcony or patio but love the idea of gardening, try some container gardening. The basics are simply, easy and great fun. What you plant inside your container is entirely up to you; just make sure that you have the right size and type for your plants.
- The Basics of Organic Gardening
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Discover the methods that are used in Organic Gardening. Methods that are environmentally better for the foods that are grown in your home garden.
- Pruning Your Perennial Garden Plants For Spring
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Learn when is the best time and the best and easiest way to prune your plants in the spring. Discover easy techniques for easy while doing this tedious chore.
- Pruning Your Perennial Plants For Spring
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Some plants will not do well come spring if you wait and prune them too late in the season, especially your perennials. Pruning your plants in the spring will not only help guarantee a beautiful garden but you can also use the debris to make compost for later use.
- Ready, Set, Grow
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Soon the season will have changed from cold to warm and gardeners everywhere like me will be getting ready and getting set to start growing again. Before any planting is to begin your garden will need the spring clean-up task of removing all the debris that accumulated over the winter months.
- How to Grow a Pineapple Plant
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Looking for a garden activity for that junior gardener of yours? Here's one that will surely be a challenge, have him/her start growing a pineapple plant. Most people think that you need live in the tropics to grow a pineapple plant, you don't, however it is a challenge.
- Common Houseplant Problems
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] House plants have problems just as your outdoor plants do. They can range from diseases and insects to over and under watering or over and under fertilizing. Knowing what cause the problem is the first step in curing it.
- Philodendron Houseplants
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Are you looking for a plant that will thrive indoors while being low maintenance and easily grown? Look no father than the wonderful Philodendron houseplant.
- The Low Maintenance Spider Plant
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Spider plants, like the Philodendron is an excellent house plant to have. This particular plant will thrive in nearly any condition, it is easy to care for and make beautiful hanging basket plants as they grow and the baby spider plants hang down. Spider plants love rich well draining potting soil, but not "wet" soil and when fertilize every two to four weeks they will grow exceptionally well in a low light condition.
- How to Take Good Care of Your Houseplants
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] If you grow plants indoors, more than likely they are a variety of houseplants, and houseplant need good care just as those grown outdoors. Most houseplants need less sunlight than those grown outdoors but they do need sunlight. If your home is not particularly sunny an artificial light sometimes referred to as a "grow light" will provide the needed extra light.
- How to Get Your Christmas Cactus to Bloom
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] The Christmas cactus is easy to grow, but it is difficult to get it to bloom. To be certain of a healthy plant there are some things you should know about the plant to help its blooming process. Medium light and a soil high in organic matter such as cow manure, wood ashes, leaf mold, garden loam and clean coarse sand (not beach sand) will make the ideal soil for your cactus.
- Caring For the Christmas Cactus
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] When any flower starts blooming in winter it is a beautiful sight, and there is nothing more beautiful than a Christmas cactus. These wonderful plants for and can be grown indoors, require very little care and come in a variety of colors such as yellow (my favorite), salmon, pink, fuchsia, white and a combination of all these colors.
- How to Care For Your Holiday Poinsettias
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] One of the most popular plants of the Christmas holidays is the Poinsettia. Poinsettias are very easy plants to keep and with proper care can last in bloom for several months past the holiday season. When you are ready to purchase you plant for the holiday season, there are a few things that you should look for before buying it.
- Indoor Edibles
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Eating a fresh garden salad, made with vegetables grown indoor edibles from an indoor garden in January is a treat that one can only enjoy. Being able to pick and enjoy edible vegetables right from your window sill or right out of your indoor garden will be rewarding. There are many herbs and vegetables that can be grown indoors in winter such as basil, parsley, rosemary, cherry tomatoes and a variety of lettuces.
- Growing Vegetables Indoors
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Missing all those freshly picked vegetables that were grown outside during the summer? Learn how easy it is to get the sane fresh vegetables by starting and indoor garden.
- Sowing Harvested Garden Seeds
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Now that you have harvested your seeds for next year's garden, it is time to decide when you want to start to sow them. First of all to a novice gardener probably has no idea as to what is sowing seeds? Sowing seeds is simply germinating your seeds either inside or outside in small trays or directly in the ground, in other words planting.
- Harvesting Garden Seeds
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Have you ever wondered how to harvest seeds from your favorite plants? Having an ample supply of seeds for your garden can be invaluable when you start your garden the following year. Harvesting seeds from your plants will guarantee you seeds for years to come.
- Shredded Leaves As Compost
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Shredded leaves make excellent and effective mulch for your spring garden. Making mulch from your fallen fall leaves is not difficult. Leaves can be shredded with your lawn mower or a leaf shredder.
- Fall Garden Tilling
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Fall is the best time to till your garden but when you wish to till is still a matter of preference. I prefer tilling twice a year, fall before the first frost and again in the spring after the thaw. Each time you till your garden you should add organic matters such as shredded leaves or peat moss.
- Getting Roses Winter Ready
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Don't want to lose any of your prize roses to the cold of winter? Learn how to give them added protection from the winter cold and wind.
- Garden Clean Up
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] It's almost time to begin your fall garden clean-up. Before long that spectacular summer garden will be gone and the time will be here for that fall garden clean - up. With the cool brisk days of autumn close, cleaning the garden for next years planting will be easier when you have had that fall head start.
- Fall Garden Checklist
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Looking for a way to get your garden ready for the winter months. Prepare a checklist of all the work that needs to be done to make your garden clean up faster and easier.
- How to Grow Asters
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Discover a new beauty in your fall flower garden when yo plant Asters. Asters are an easily grow fall flower that will enhance the beauty of your fall garden.
- Amazing Asters
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] As fall approaches and your garden slowly starts to die down and fade away, think of how lovely your garden would be to look out at if it were planted with amazing asters. Asters are an easy growing perennial flower that don't need much care. They need full sun and grow well in average soil.
- Flowering Fall Mums
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] One of the most popular plants for a fall season of garden is the mum. Flowering fall mums are often called Hardy Mums partly because they are winter hardy and not difficult to grow and also require very little care. Mums come in a wide variation of colors, sizes, shape and types.
- Colorful Fall Flower Gardens
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] For an extremely beautiful and colorful Fall Flower Garden try planting Pansies. Pansies will give you a huge display of every color in a rainbow for your fall flower garden. In some of the warmer regions in the south where the winters are considerably milder pansies have bloomed for as long as six months, from fall through winter and even late spring.
- Planting a Fall Garden
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] The month of June has gone by and we can look forward to the hot humid days of July. July is considered to be the perfect time to start preparing to plant your Fall Gardens. Remember it is July, so when you begin to prepare your beds, work early in the mornings before the sun gets to hot.
- Fall and Winter Vegetable Gardens
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Deciding whether to grow a fall garden for winter vegetables can be a challenge. Learn how to plant and grow delicious vegetables in the fall for winter.
- Wilt, White Mold and Viruses of the Peony Plant
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Peonies are living plants, and like anything that lives they are susceptible to forms of infections and viruses, White Mold, Viruses and Wilt are common peony diseases. When planted properly and given proper growing conditions, the peony can be grown almost disease free. However when the weather is more wet, rainy and humid for a period of time the plants will suffer.
- Maintaining Your Annual Garden
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] A garden that is a showplace of beauty and color is a garden that you have been maintaining to keep it that way. Watering, Weed Control, Fertilizing, Staking and Pruning (if needed) are the key factors when maintaining a garden of annuals. When fertilizing most people are unaware that nitrogen is the one nutrient that frequently limit's a plants growth and is the most difficult one to manage without damaging your plants.
- Colors For Your Annual Garden
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Nothing will brighten up a flower garden like color. Colors in a garden, when plants are planted in the right place can be absolutely stunning. Whether it be a single color a mixture of many, colors have been known to have different effects on people, especially when planted in harmony.
- Annuals in Your Garden
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] With the cultivation and development of variations of annual flowers, the distinction between annuals and perennials may become confusing. Most annuals are planted in spring and bloom all summer long and some through fall. Annuals add vibrant colors and mixtures to your garden while providing seeds for the next years planting.
- Maintaining Your Perennial Garden
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] An orderly look to any garden means it has been properly maintained. Maintaining a perennial garden is relatively easy as with any garden that is given proper mulching, watering, fertilization, weed control pruning and pinching. Begin by mulching with 2 or 3 layers of pine bark nuggets, needles or shredded leaves at planting.
- Garden Safety For Kids
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Do you keep your home safe for your child? Well keep them safe in the garden as well. A flower or vegetable garden of their own can be a wonderful thing for a child, but if left unattended or unsupervised by an adult, it can become dangerous.
- How To Grow A Good Gardener (Kid's Gardening)
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Teach your child the basics of gardening, while spending time outdoors with them. Watch them learn and find the enjoyment that so many people find in gardening.
- Perennial Flowers - How To Select, Purchase & Plant
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Perennial flowers will provide your garden with a huge variety if colors, shapes and types. Though they tend to have a shorter blooming period usually 2 to 4 weeks, if and when you design and plant your flowers correctly you can have blooms from spring through fall. The main advantage of planting perennial flowers is that you don't have to plant them every year.
- Climbing Plants for Your Garden
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Nothing will add more instant beauty to a garden than climbing vines. Climbing vine plants tend to grow pretty much carefree while adding a point of beauty and interest to a trellis, wall, fence or tree trunk. Climbing vines can make a bland garden picturesque during its first growing season.
- Container Vegetable Gardening
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Have you ever wanted to know what it would be like to walk right outside your door and pick a nice fresh tomato? Have you ever wanted to grow your own vegetables but simply don't have the space? Can container vegetable gardening be the answer?
- Treatment and Insect Prevention for Roses
[Home-Improvement:Pest-Control] Don't wait until aphids or beetles to invite themselves to live in your roses garden. Insect treatment and prevention can be guarded against. Once aphids or beetles, the most common pesky insects to the rose have taken up residence they can be easily treated.
- Most Common Rose Diseases & Treatments
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] There are three common ailments that roses are susceptible to: Rose rust, Powdery or Downey Mildew and Black Spot all of which are known as fungal infections. They are easily treated with fungicides when they are applied at the first signs of the disease or before the onset of hot, humid weather is evident.
- Tips on Growing Roses, Beautiful Roses
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] There is no magical Green Thumb needed when it comes to growing roses, beautiful roses. Roses love water and a regular fertilizer feeding so keep these two factors in mind and your reward will be healthy plants with beautiful blossoms. With over 2000 varieties of roses to choose from each with its own distinctive fragrance, selecting which to plant can be a difficult challenge.
- Natural Garden Pesticides
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Natural garden pesticides are an alternative to synthetic chemical pesticides. Often called botanical pesticides by some and natural or organic pesticides by others these types of pesticides break down easily in the soil and their effects are not as long lasting as synthetic pesticides. One of the more common knows is Insecticidal Soap.
- Proper Watering Techniques For Your Garden
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Healthy plants are made up pf nearly 90% water, therefore proper watering techniques for adequate soil moisture is essential for their growth and careful watering is vital to the plants function for transporting sugars and nutrients to their various parts. Careful irrigation of your plants, especially young seedlings or newly transplanted plants is a must. Remember there is absolutely no substitute for water.
- Maintaining Your Garden
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Now that you have started a flower or vegetable garden, maintaining your garden is the next step to insure beautiful flowers and a bountiful harvest. Maintaining your garden is just as important as choosing what plants are going to be planted and how to plant them? With all the work that has been put into it to let it go to seed or letting the weed take over would be disgraceful.
- Starting A Vegetable Garden
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Fresh lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers and radishes, this is what you get by starting a vegetable garden. When you can't find fresh vegetables locally, try growing your own, starting small and planting what you like to eat is the first step. Make sure that all your plants need the same growing requirements and not needing more time and attention that you can give them.
- Choosing Healthy Plants
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Do you know how to go into a nursery and choose a healthy plant? It's harder than you might think if you don't know what to look for. When you go into a nursery always look around and see if the plants are well cared for and seem to be healthy.
- How to Plant A Garden
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Before you start planting a garden make sure you have well prepared the soil. By this I mean have you loosened the soil by hand or with a tiller to allow for the aeration? Have you softened your soil with fertilizers and new topsoil?
- Gardening Topsoil
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] What is Topsoil? It is the soil at the surface of the earth which has the most organic matter in it and is comprised of sand, clay particles and humus, the three basic groups of organic matter. Topsoil is formed from the chemical composition of various rocks and materials which determine whether your soil is acid, alkaline, and sand, clay or neutral.
- Basic Knowledge of Fertilizers
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Spring is generally the best time to fertilize your plants. March is usually a good time to start feeding your trees and shrubs in your garden, getting them off to a good early growing start. If you are new at gardening or haven't had much success with it, having your soil tested is a good idea.
- Dos and Dont's of Starting a Garden
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Remember the old nursery rhyme, Mary Mary Quite Contrary How does your Garden Grow? Well this is how she started it to growing. First of all with a layout, then with proper soil preparation and you should do the same Evaluate your space as to how much space do you have, a lot or a little?
- Hanging Garden Tool Organizers
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Garden tools need proper storage, and hanging garden tools properly is a must since tools come in a variety of sizes and styles from the small tool collection to the large tool collection. There are many, hanging garden tool organizers on the market, some for garden sheds, some for your garage and some even for the small work area of your basement. When your storage space is small or limited a hanging tool organizer is the only answer especially when garage storage space is also sometimes limited.
- Garden Tool Organizers
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Are you tired of wearing yourself out by walking back and forth to your tool shed or the garage looking for your gardening tools that are no where to be found because they are so unorganized ? If you are then a garden tool organizer is a must have for your storage space. Garden tool organizers come in a variety of sizes and shapes, some a re mobile making them easily transportable from one spot to another with very little effort.
- Garden Carts and Wheelbarrows
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Do you know the difference between a garden cart and a wheelbarrow? Since they both have pretty much the same function, what's the difference? A wheelbarrow generally has one or two wheels on the front and sides that slope.
- Garden Tool Totes, Caddy's & Carry-All's
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Looking for an easy way to carry your gardening tools straight from the garage or tool shed without going back and forth before getting started? Simple, get yourself a Garden Tool Tote, Caddy or a Carry - All. These ingenious little inventions are a gardeners dream come true, just pack the tools you'll be needing and get ready to just start gardening.
- Specialty Ergonomic Garden Tools
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Arthritis can be very painful, but gardening doesn't have to be. With the development, design and craftsmanship of the new ergonomic garden tools on the market nowadays, gardening can be virtually pain free. Specialty garden tools are made with a padded near perfect grip for design and comfort of the hand.
- Left Hand Garden Tools
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] While gardening is one of the most relaxing and enjoyable hobbies a person could have, working your garden can sometimes become awkward and dangerous if you are left- handed. A right handed person takes the ease of using tools for granted, while if you are left -handed, trying to garden with a tool that was intended for a right handed person is not easy, especially if they are power tools. Specialty garden tools made for specific jobs in a garden are not always known about and can be hard to find.
- Speciality Garden Tools
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Working in your garden can sometimes require you to use more than your everyday basic garden tools. Some gardening chores may cause you to have need of a tool for a specific job that requires a little more effort, or you may need to be a little more careful while cutting, weeding or pruning in and around young seedling plants without damaging their roots. This article gives points on unusual, specialty tools that can be used for a variety of uses in the garden.
- Garden Aprons
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Sometimes just getting started with your gardening can mean more than a few steps back and forth to the tool shed. Wouldn't it be nice to just pack everything you are going to need into a pouch of some kind and get right to the chores at hand? Well how about a nice gardeners apron. This apron will allow you to pack and carry everything at once and have the ease of the availability right at you fingertips. They come in an assortment of pouch sizes for carrying hand tools and seeds.
- Benefits of Ergonomic Garden Tools
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] To be able to get a full understanding of ergonomic garden tools, its best to know what the word ergonomic means. Learn the benefits of using ergonomic garden tools.
- Top Ten Hand Forged Stainless Steel Garden Tools
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] The picks of the top ten hand forged stainless steel garden tools on the market. For the highest quality of garden tools, purchase hand forged stainless steel.
- Stainless Steel Garden Tools - Everlasting Benefits
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Over the last 100 years or so, the range of garden tools has increased by varying degrees. Long gone are the wooden tools of times past and enter the high priced copper and stainless steel garden tools of today. Explore the benefits of them for years of worry free gardening
- Gardening Tips for Seniors
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Gardening in itself is an enjoyable pastime and an excellent form of exercise for mobility, flexibility, use of motor skills while helping to improve strength and endurance. This type of physical activity also helps to prevent osteoporosis, reduces stress levels while promoting relaxation to help you rest better at night.
- Kids Gardening Tools
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] Did you know that garden tools are not just for adults? That's right, there's now a wide range of kid's gardening tools available on the market for the little ones to enjoy. The art of gardening can provide numerous benefits to any person young or old, and this also includes children.
- How To Sharpen Garden Tools - A Few Simple Tips
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] If you are an avid gardener, then you know that there is nothing worse than working gardening tools that are dull, duller and dullest! Struggling with each push or pull on the handle can be extremely difficult not to mention a strain on the back, arm, and shoulder muscles.
- Ergonomic Garden Tools - What's The Big Deal?
[Home-and-Family:Gardening] The best new garden tools around are ergonomic, meaning that they are designed to fit the hand comfortably. Designed for comfort, ergonomic garden tools were also designed for specific motions and tasks.
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