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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 growing 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 … Continue reading →
If your bulbs did not bloom, see these troubleshooting tips to help determine why your bulbs did not produce flowers and assure they come back year after year. These tips … 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. … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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. … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … 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 … Continue reading →
Use flowering bulbs in your rock garden to start Spring with a burst of energy or fill drab spots with color as fall arrives. Whether emerging from between rocks or … 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 … 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 … 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 … Continue reading →
Gardening tools for seniors, arthritis or those with limited mobility help endurance. Long handled garden tools and ergonomic garden tool designs are meant to help complete tasks and reduce physical … 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 … 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. … 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 … 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 … 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 … Continue reading →
There are sun tolerant hosta that can grow in full sun, and will do quite well when given the proper growing conditions. These are often called sun tolerant hostas, for … 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 … Continue reading →
Harvesting Purple Coneflower (Echinacea) seeds are easy when you understand how they are formed. See what Coneflower seeds look like, how to remove them and how to grow your own … Continue reading →
See how to divide daffodils so you can grow more of them. Daffodils are one of the easiest flowers to grow from bulbs, and tolerate a variety of conditions and … Continue reading →
