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Flower Growing Tips: Tips for growing and caring for plants
Garden Fundamentals: Basic gardening for anyone
Deadheading & Pruning: Keeping plants and yourself happy
Vegetable Growing Tips: Tips about our favorite foods
Garden Ideas: Ideas, tips and other things that make life wonderful
Outdoor Living: Ways to enjoy the outdoors and enhance life
Start your garden or landscape project off on the right foot by choosing healthy plants at the nursery. Use these tips to pick the healthiest plants. Evaluate the nursery Look at the overall condition of … Continue reading →
You can grow lettuce throughout the summer if you learn a few tips about how lettuce responds to high temperatures and how you can work with it to your advantage. What is the best heat-tolerant … Continue reading →
Oscillating sprinklers cover large areas with a smooth movement that evenly distributes water. They allow you to control coverage by positioning of the sprinkler and most have controls to position the water pattern left, right … Continue reading →
Using plant trellises for small space vertical gardening is key to maximizing green space. Many people turn to traditional trellises for climbing vines, flowers and vegetables to maximize vertical space to its fullest benefit. However, … Continue reading →
If you are looking for unique accent trees or shrubs for your landscape, ornamental weeping trees should definitely be on your landscaping list. Often providing stunning blooms in spring, the artistic form of weeping trees … Continue reading →
When to start seeds indoors so seedlings are ready at the right time to be planted outside? See how to determine plant dates and organize with a sowing calendar. Includes seed start guide for … Continue reading →
A frost date is the average date of the last light freeze in spring or the first light freeze in fall for a given location. Know the frost date for your area to determine the most appropriate time to set plants … Continue reading →
Hyacinth Bean vine (Dolichos lablab) is an easy to grow annual with delicate scented pea-like pink-purple flower and large thick deep purple seed pod. They are also available in white varieties. As this vine grows … Continue reading →
Let’s look at how much water annual flowers need and how often you should water annuals so they stay healthy. Annual plants will droop when they need water, and annual plants will droop when they … Continue reading →
Beautiful petunias bursting with flowers are first to be seen where ever flowers are sold. But to keep petunias full and flowering all season requires some regular attention. Petunias are one of the more labor-intensive … Continue reading →
Plant, grow and care for sunflowers easily. With lots of varieties to choose from from short to tall, anyone can enjoy sunflowers all summer long. Grow sunflowers and you will find they are more than … Continue reading →
Burlap (also called hessian burlap) is a natural product that is used in the garden to provide protection or covering. It’s natural open-weave allows air flow which prevents or minimizes rotting due to trapped moisture. … Continue reading →
Here are two of the best garden carts I have used for many different uses in the yard. They are invaluable for carrying tools to the farthest place in the yard or hauling loads of … Continue reading →
Attract hummingbirds to your yard with a few simple steps. Once you’ve had these charming characters spend the summer with you, you will look forward to their arrival year after year. Hummingbird migration is one … Continue reading →
Prized for amazing foliage colors and patterns, coleus plants will thrive if you know a few tips for caring for their water, light, soil and environment needs. Find out how ailing plants react and how … Continue reading →
Enjoy flower bouquets in your home all season by growing an annual cutting garden. A cutting garden of annuals gives you flowers you can enjoy all season, inside and out. Sometimes we are reluctant to … Continue reading →
Grow Okra and you will harvest a unique veggie you can eat right off the plant or use to cook in many different ways. It’s a mixture of flavor and texture unmatched by any other. … Continue reading →
Yes, houseplants can be planted in the garden outdoors directly in the ground or in pots. They may be considered annuals in your geographic location, meaning unless you bring them in before frost hits, they … Continue reading →
Quick growing annual climbing vines allow you to utilize spaces above the usual ground level of the garden. With support to grow on, in one season they fill space with unique foliage and flowers, vertical … Continue reading →
Peas not only provide an abundance of a wonderful vegetable, their whimsical flowers of white to pink to purple against blue-green leaves are a welcome early bloomer. What are the differences between garden, snap and … Continue reading →
So now that you are interested in potting up some plants for the summer, what type of vessel should you use? Yes, you can consider a wide range of clever items to make as containers … Continue reading →
Flowering plants take their job very seriously – to provide the best flowers they can to attract bee’s and other pollinators to visit them. While the flowers are the benefit we enjoy through this process, … Continue reading →
Zinnia seeds are some of the easiest to save, and can provide a fun learning experience on how these seeds are formed. It’s also fun to share them and see yours growing in others’ yards. … Continue reading →
