Category: Garden Tips
How To: Go Organic in Composting
Ever heard about organic? Who haven’t these days? Even Oprah is clamoring about organic stuff. One may wonder if this is so important that even a popular and influential celebrity would endorse its use. Along with the talks about going organic, especially in gardening, involves the process of composting. What is this? It should not [...]
How to Mulch your Garden
The Benefits of Mulch in your Garden: Mulching is great for keeping your garden free of weeds and is effective and simple. Mulch your garden at the beginning of the growing season each year. This protective layer of mulch insulates the soil from the hot summer sun, protects it from drying winds, and all but [...]
How to Properly Landscape Your Garden
Landscaping is usually a fairly big task, consuming much time and energy. But before you hire that professional, here are some tips that could save both time and money. 1. Spend some time thinking about exactly how you want the final design to be. You need to take account of the style and function of [...]
How to Make a Garden
The first thing in garden making is the selection of a spot. Without a choice, it means simply doing the best one can with conditions. With space limited it resolves itself into no garden, or a box garden. Surely a box garden is better than nothing at all. But we will now suppose that it [...]
Garden Pests
If we could garden without any interference from the pests which attack plants, then indeed gardening would be a simple matter. But all the time we must watch out for these little foes little in size, but tremendous in the havoc they make. As human illness may often be prevented by healthful conditions, so pests [...]
Fighting Plant Enemies!
The devices and implements used for fighting plant enemies are of two sorts: (1) those used to afford mechanical protection to the plants; (2) those used to apply insecticides and fungicides. Of the first the most useful is the covered frame. It consists usually of a wooden box, some eighteen inches to two feet square [...]
Kale – The King of Cold
A perfect choice for the Autumn gardener! Not only does ornamental kale like the cold, it often intensifies in color after frost becoming even more beautiful. Varieties like Chidori Red, Coral Queen and Pigeon Red develop deep magenta coloring with colder temps. Ruffled leaves add interest to garden beds and containers. Plant kale when the weather [...]
Fall Gardening Checklist
Many garden activities are best performed during the autumn months. While the timing of garden activities is not precise, consider the following as a guide for the autumn gardener – • Replace spent annuals • Prepare soil for autumn planting • Plant spring bulbs • Dig and store tender bulbs • Rake and remove fallen [...]
