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  • How to Prepare For This Year's Garden

    Have you ever found yourself in June looking at the bountiful harvests of local gardeners, while your own garden only seems to be producing weeds? Experienced gardeners develop a routine for...

  • How to Light Patio Plants

    Having a beautiful patio garden can be a wonderful way to create a relaxing place to enjoy a cup of tea on a pleasant evening. Incorporating lights to illuminate your patio plants is not only...

  • How to Use the Cooperative Extension Service

    Your local Cooperative Extension Service is involved with soil conservation and the production of plants in the city and the community. You need to know how to avail yourself of this free public...

  • How to Keep Rabbits Away From Your Plants

    Rabbits will get into gardens and plants. They can be a serious pest and a gardener's enemy. There are a few ways to keep the rabbits away from your plants without hurting your plants. Try some...

  • Do it Yourself: Easy Home Hydroponics

    The art and craft of hydroponics can be as simple or complex as the liquid gardener wants it to be. When you first take an interest in growing a few (or a bunch) of plants at home and then hit the...

  • How to Make Liquid Bone Meal Fertilizer

    Bone meal is a high phosphorus fertilizer source, normally made from crushed animal bones that are ground into a fine powder. Many fertilizers contain a bone meal or phosphorus rock element to...

  • How to Care for Outdoor Plants in the Winter

    In winter, most plants enter dormancy for the cold months. Preparing your outdoor plants for winter ensures they will wake up in spring healthy and undamaged. Continued care throughout winter also...

  • How to Produce Compost

    Composting is an environmentally friendly way to use old food scraps and lawn materials to create fertilizer. Composting is accomplished by adding plant and food waste to a compost bin and...

  • How Do I Fasten a Trellis to the House?

    A trellis is an implement that creepers and climbing plants grow on. Many types of trellises can be used, depending on the your needs. When attached to a house, a trellis can be made of any...

  • How to Rip Out Flowers

    You may have times when you want to give your garden a fresh start or need to remove a sickly or invasive flower in your garden, and yanking out the plant seems like your only option. Before you...

  • How to Make the Most of a Small Back Yard for Gardening & Chickens

    A small backyard doesn't mean you can't enjoy both a productive garden and a flock of egg-producing chickens. Plan and measure during the winter months so that you're ready to undertake the...

  • What Is Compost Material?

    Composting allows homeowners to reduce household waste and create rich soil for use in the garden. Compost bins can be in small containers kept in the kitchen or large receptacles kept outside.

  • Suggestions for Planting a Wine Barrel Container

    Recycled wine barrels can give an outdoor space a rustic, vintage look. And using them as planters can enhance their look. Because of their height, wine barrels are ideal for vine plantings,...

  • Easy Vegetable Gardening

    Vegetable gardening can be easy and does not require a large area. Plan what vegetables will be grown according to personal preference and space available. Determine the condition of the soil that...

  • Peat Moss Alternative

    Preparing a garden bed properly can be what eventually leads to a healthy and thriving garden. Peat moss is a popular addition to many gardens because of its versatility, availability and many...

  • Peat Moss for Planting

    Properly preparing the soil, or foundation, of a garden bed can be what eventually leads to a healthy and thriving garden. It also helps reduce the amount of work--cutting, tending, watering,...

  • How to Cover Raised Beds With Plastic

    Whether you cover a raised garden bed with plastic to warm the soil in the spring to extend the growing season or you cover it with plastic as a mulch barrier to prevent weeds, the process is not...

  • Biointensive Planting Information

    Biointensive planting focuses on how plants and vegetables are grown, placing special emphasis on the soil and using available space as efficiently as possible. Improving the soil is the main goal...

  • Ways to Save Rain Water at Home

    Collecting rainwater is not a new idea. Before the advent of municipal water systems a cistern was a standard feature at every home. The cistern was connected by pipes to the eve troughs and...

  • Why Do Compost Worms Leave a Bin?

    According to Washington State University, three types of worms are best for composting: the Eisenia foetida, Lumbricus rubellus and Lumbricus terrestris. Compost worms thrive best in compost...

  • How to Make Raised Planter Beds

    Raised beds are a simple way to control the quality of your gardening spaces. Native soil, which may not be well-suited to growing, is mixed with quality soils, allowing you to have a rich garden...

  • How to Raise Red Clover for Green Manure

    Using a green manure means growing a cover crop and then plowing it under the soil surface to enrich the soil. Green manures aid in controlling erosion and garden pests such as root knot...

  • How to Line Garden Beds

    Lining garden beds before planting helps preserve moisture in the soil and prevents weeds. For annual vegetables and flowers, black plastic mulch is a suitable liner because it also warms the...

  • How to Root Red Honeysuckle

    Honeysuckle, a hardy plant that grows quickly and well under many growing conditions, makes a good beginner gardener's flower. It roots quickly and easily and requires very little maintenance...

  • Steps to Starting a Vegetable Garden

    Eating freshly picked herbs or ripe tomatoes straight from the vine is a fascinating experience. You know very well the health benefits of having daily servings of fresh vegetables and you also...

  • How to Build a Terraced Wood Planter Bed

    There are many ways to display your plants attractively, from landscaped planting beds to window boxes to container gardens. One option that displays your plants to their best advantage is the...

  • How to Breakdown Tasks & Resources When Planting a Garden

    Everyone wants to turn that piece of land in the backyard into a beautiful garden, but many people aren't aware of how intricate the whole process is. It is not a matter of merely throwing seeds...

  • Is Composting a Good Idea?

    Composting is encouraged by governmental agencies, environmentalists, gardening groups, universities and community organizations because of the many benefits composting offers. More than 70...

  • How to Treat Planting Materials

    Treating planting material is vital when it comes to avoiding a diseased crop. It is very important to treat the plant material to make sure that you have a successful crop and to prevent illness...

  • How to Build Raised Garden Planters

    Raised garden beds have been used for centuries. Not only are they attractive, they also offer an efficient way to garden. In them, it's easier to keep weeds out, drainage is improved and the soil...

  • How to Build an Automatic Watering Planter

    Have you ever taken a vacation and come back only to find that your precious plants had suffered through lack of water while you were away? Or that you had arranged for a neighbor to water your...

  • How Fertilizers Are Harmful for Your Environment

    Fertilizer from farms and gardens can wash off into the watershed and enter surrounding bodies of water. Chemical buildup of fertilizer ingredients can pollute the environment and affect not only...

  • How to Protect Outdoor Plants From Cold

    Plant selection, placement of beds and quality and depth of mulch can all contribute to protecting outdoor plants from cold weather, but if the weather is going to be worse than normal, the plants...

  • DIY Hydroponic Gardening

    Hydroponics, a growing method that eliminates the need for soil, has been around since the ancient Babylonians and Aztecs, though the term hydroponics has a much shorter history. It was coined in...

  • Organic Ways to Make Acidic Soil

    For a successful organic garden you will need to take control of the soil and one of the first steps is regulating the pH (potential hydrogen) to support your crop. Certain vegetables and flowers...

  • How to Plant Outdoor Hanging Baskets

    Who does not love to see sprawling petunias, smiling purple and yellow pansies or a burst of red geraniums in hanging baskets at their door, their favorite coffee shop or lining the streets of...

  • Tips on Drip Irrigation for Gardens

    Drip irrigation is a method of applying water to plants via a hose (drip tubing) that lays on the ground and releases low volumes of water through holes situated along the length of the tubing....

  • Citrus Tree Pruning Instructions

    Most fruit trees don't require pruning to produce fruit, but it is still recommended that you undertake this task to make the most of your fruit harvest -- both quantity and quality wise. By...

  • How to Compost in the Desert

    Composting using a compost pile is the most efficient way to recycle organic material, including kitchen and garden waste. You can dig organic waste directly into soil, but it will need time to...

  • Can Rabbit Manure Be Used for Compost?

    An alternative to chemical fertilizers, compost is composed of plants, food and manure that decompose to produce carbon and nitrogen. Nitrogen is found mostly in grass clippings and manures,...

  • Can I Add Earth Worms to My Compost Pile?

    Earthworms make an excellent addition to any backyard compost pile. In fact, compost piles provide the perfect food source for earthworms so it's yet another reason to start composting waste. This...

  • What Is Winter Mulching of Plants?

    Winter mulching can be done in a number of ways, but the principle is always the same. Mulching provides a blanket of protection for your plants by keeping roots from freezing or at least keeping...

  • What Environmental Benefits Are Associated With Composting?

    Composting of organic food waste and yard trimmings is relatively easy and has a number of environmental benefits when compared with alternative disposal methods.

  • How to Plants Seed for Pine Trees

    Pine trees grow big, tall and impressive, but they don't start very quickly. Pine trees will typically grow as little as a foot in the first year, and many seeds might not be hardy enough to even...

  • Seasonal Planting Guide

    Knowing what to plant and when to plant it can be confusing. A seasonal planting guide will help keep trees, shrubs, bulbs, perennials, biennials--to say nothing of vegetables--and all of their...

  • How to Place Old Newspaper in Flower Beds

    Newspapers can be recycled in a variety of ways. You can save your old newspapers instead of placing them on your curb once per week. In the spring, you will want to take these newspapers and use...

  • How Much Sun Is Needed to Grow Tomatoes?

    Tomato plants are a popular plant to grow in home gardens, as they require minimal upkeep, do not take up much room, and often yield large quantities of produce. If you plan to grow tomatoes at...

  • Methods for Hydroponics

    Hydroponics is a method of gardening that eliminates the need for soil. The word hydroponics is derived from Latin and Greek words, hydro, which means water, and ponis, which translates loosely to...

  • What Is the Definition of Heirloom Seeds?

    Everybody knows that heirloom tomatoes are uniquely delicious choices for salads and appetizers, but what exactly does that "heirloom" in the title mean? As it turns out, there is no universally...

  • The Cardboard Method of Weed Killing

    Weeds can be a nuisance which can destroy large areas of cultivable plants and fruits. They are unwanted for a number of reasons, ranging from their ability to deprive other useful plants of...

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