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How to Plant Asiatic Lilies
Asiatic lilies are non-fragrant, brightly colored lilies that are a great addition to any flower garden. Add some Asiatic lilies to your flower garden with tips from a third-generation flower...
How to Keep Deer Out of a Garden
The key to keeping deer out of a garden is to use strong-smelling spices, such as cayenne pepper or even cinnamon. Don't let deer destroy your garden with tips from a third-generation flower...
How to Design a Flower Garden
Designing a flower garden takes more than just considering your flowers, you must consider trees, grasses, rocks and water as well. Design a beautiful flower garden with guidance from a...
Ideas For Garden Lighting
When lighting your garden, you want to highlight or light up the most beautiful trees first. Discover some ideas for how to light your garden with tips from a third-generation flower grower in...
How to Get Free Four O'Clock Flowers For Your Garden Landscape
Four O'Clock flowers are a stunningly beautiful and amazingly fragrant flower for your garden. They are called Four O'Clocks due to their blooms opening early in the morning, late in the evening...
Growing a Spice Garden Indoors
When growing a spice garden indoors, make sure you find a sunny window to start from. Create a beautiful spice garden indoors with help from a third-generation flower grower in this free video on...
How to Grow a Vegetable Garden Indoors
Growing a vegetable garden indoors is easy as long as there is enough sun, heat and water. Determine if you can grow a vegetable garden where you live with the advice of a third-generation flower...
Starting Garden Seeds Indoors
To start garden seeds indoors, you'll need a plastic bag, a napkin, a seed sorter tray and soil. Find out how to start your garden seeds indoors with the help of a third-generation flower grower...
How to Grow Damiana
Growing Damiana in your garden only requires a few simple materials. Discover how to grow Damiana with the guidance of a third-generation flower grower in this free video on plant care.
How to Grow Physalis
After growing Physalis, this Chinese Lantern plant can be one of the funnest plants that you can have in your garden. Grow this fun plant in your garden with help from a third-generation flower...
How to Grow Boswellia
Growing Boswellia in your garden can really be a fascinating and beautiful plant. Learn to grow this frankincense tree in your garden with the advice of a third-generation flower grower in this...
How to Make Indoor Window Gardens
Creating an indoor window garden requires a window, some sunlight and moisture. Make a windowsill garden with expert tips from a gardener in this free video on creating an indoor window garden.
Tips on Growing Fresh Produce
Fresh produce can be grown in a garden of any size, including a small container garden on a balcony. Find out how to start growing food in any living situation with helpful advice from a...
How to Kill Bamboo
If bamboo as taken over a garden or yard, it can be killed by removing every bit of root. Find out why bamboo won't die if it is simply cut down with help from a sustainable gardener in this free...
How to Garden in Pots
Clay pots make the best containers for gardening, because they are a natural material, they breathe, and they allow the soil to drain easily. Create a completely contained garden with gardening...
How to Buy Herb Seeds
When buying herb seeds, play close attention to the information on the back of the package, which explains when and where the seeds should be planted. Start an herb garden for the kitchen with...
Growing Green Beans in a Container
For an inside garden, green beans can grow very well in a container by covering up the roots with soil and providing a trellis or wire for the vine to grow on. Have fresh green beans ready to pick...
How to Pollinate Flowers
Flowers pollinate naturally, but humans can pollinate flowers by using a small stick to gather and mix pollen from various flowers. Understand the process of pollination with help from a...
How to Gather Rainwater for Your Vegetable Garden
Collecting rainwater to use in a vegetable garden is as simple as setting out a large container, but putting a garbage can under the gutter is a great way to consistently gather large amounts of...
How to Plant a Winter Vegetable Garden
To plant a winter vegetable garden, choose plants that can withstand the colder climate, such as spinach, broccoli, kale and different types of lettuce. Stagger the vegetables throughout the...
How to Grow Collard Greens --the Healthiest Vegetable You Can Eat
According to folk lore, and now scientific evidence: Collard Greens are the best vegetable you can eat for cancer prevention as well as a whole load of other health benefits. In this article you...
Planning a Flower Garden
When planning a flower garden in the yard, include plants that thrive during different parts of the year so that something is always blooming. Design a colorful flower garden that is ever changing...
How to Enjoy Your Fresh Vegetables At Week #7
By Week #7 of your "Less Than 8 Week" garden journey, you can start to enjoy the fruits of your labor; as you can see in the video. If this is what you planted, you should be enjoying...
How to Sharpen Garden Tools
Sharpening garden tools is best done by securing the tool in a vise and using a flat file to sharpen the edge. Make sure to do all sharpening of garden tools on the beveled edges with help from a...
How to Enjoy Your Outdoor Space All Year Round
To enjoy an outdoor space all year round, incorporate plants, flowers and shrubs that bloom and thrive in different seasons, and incorporate seasonal decorations into the garden. Plant an...
How to Design & Prepare a Flower Bed
Designing and preparing a flower bed does not require a large amount of space; simply lay out compost and soil, plant short plants in the front and taller plants behind them. Use rocks, bricks or...
What Is a Green Roof?
Green roofs added to a house, a garden or over a compost heap increase the green space and habitat value in a garden by regulating the temperature and moisture levels. Install a green roof over an...
Attracting Birds to a Garden
Attracting birds to a garden simply requires providing food in the form of berry bushes, and nesting opportunities with bird boxes, trees or shrubs. Encourage birds to thrive in a garden, making...
Attracting Butterflies to a Garden
Attracting butterflies to a garden involves providing plants that blossom from spring until fall and offering many pollinating opportunities for single-blossom flowers. Encourage butterflies to...
Attracting Amphibians to a Garden
Attracting amphibians, like frogs, newts and toads, to a garden involves providing cool, damp shelters for the autumn and winter, and offering a pond in a sunny area for the spring and summer...
How to Replace the End Fitting on a Garden Hose
To replace the end fitting on a garden hose, get basic tools, such as an utility knife, pliers, wire cutters and a screwdriver; then, cut the old end of the hose and put on a new fitting. Learn...
Gardening: Yard Flowers
Flowers to plant in a yard or garden can be any variety of things collected and gathered from farmer's markets and gardening centers. Create a personal garden, planting different flowers in their...
How to Use Coffee Grounds in Your Garden
Used coffee grounds can provide a lot of nutrition for plants when used in a garden. Put coffee grounds in a garden to get rid of slugs with tips from an experienced gardener in this free video on...
How to Find Free Trees, Shrubs & Plants
Find trees, shrubs and plants by joining a garden club or checking on www.craigslist.com. Find plants for a garden from other gardeners with tips from an experienced gardener in this free video on...
How to Plant a Cut-Flower Garden
A cut flowerbed is easy to grow and should include mixed flowers for every different season. Plant a cut-flower garden for use in the summer through the fall with tips from an experienced gardener...
Using Solar Lighting for Garden Area
Solar lighting for a garden area is ideal because it doesn't use electricity and is very simple to install. Help a garden grow with sun and solar energy with tips from a gardening specialist in...
How to Design a Shade Garden
The trick to designing a shade garden for plants is knowing which flowers need shade and which can thrive without. Create a shade garden to protect flowers with tips from a gardening specialist in...
How to Deadhead Flowers
Deadheading flowers involves cutting out the heads of dead flowers to prevent a flower bed or garden from looking tacky. Remove dead flower heads for a beautiful garden with tips from a gardening...
How to Plant a Kitchen Herb Garden
When planting a kitchen herb garden, make sure there is access to a sunny window and that containers are the appropriate sizes. Grow herbs in a kitchen garden and remember to switch them out with...
How to Grow an Herb Garden Indoors
In herb gardening, the most important aspect of having an indoor herb garden is to have access to a sunny window. Grow an herb garden inside a house that has a lot of natural light with tips from...
How to Design an Herb Garden
When designing an herb garden, decide which herbs to grow, find a place to grow them, and decide if they'll be planted in beds or containers. Design an herb garden that will receive at least a...
What Kind of Soil Should I Use in Organic Gardening?
The best soil to use for an organic garden is compost that does not contain any chemicals or pesticides. Find the best soil for an organic garden and learn to create self-made compost with tips...
How to Start an Organic Garden
Starting an organic garden requires caring for plants in a natural way without using chemicals or pesticides to kill weeds and insects. Be kind to the soil and bugs that help a garden thrive by...
How to Design Your Dream Garden
When designing a dream garden, be sure to consider factors like needing a dog area or how small children may affect the garden. Create a dream garden with an enjoyable seating or deck area with...
Planting a Raised Bed Garden
A raised-bed garden is beneficial in that the soil within the garden bed is not so condensed and that the beds tend to warm up faster in the spring. Plant a raised-bed garden with seeds and a...
How to Plant a Vegetable Garden in Rows
Growing vegetables in rows allows a gardener or farmer to control the spacing and it helps to get rid of weeds. Use a raised bed system when planting a vegetable garden in rows with help from an...
How to Build a Raised Garden Bed
In order to build a raised garden bed, it's important to clear all of the weeds and to use a rototiller. Avoid walking on a raised bed so that roots remain undisturbed by following the advice of...
How to Make a Butterfly Garden
Making a butterfly garden involves growing leafy plants for caterpillars and planting fluffy blooms like leatrice, lavender and Black-Eyed-Susan. Create a butterfly-friendly garden with tips from...
Flowers for a Hummingbird Garden
Flowers for a hummingbird garden include trumpet-shaped blooms like crocosmias, galtonias, fuschias and mandevillas. Plant flowers for a hummingbird garden with tips from a professional gardener...
How Often Should I Water My Flowers?
Flowers should be watered when they are just starting to wilt, and it is most effective to water flowers in the evenings. Water flowers in a garden with tips from a professional gardener in this...