Gardening Articles
406: How To Make Your Grounds Beautiful
When you buy a new house or decide to improve your old one, you are, of course, concerned with every foot of ground that goes with it. New methods of soil improvement, grading, fencing and terracing make even sloping, hilly lots, hitherto undesirable, now attractive and choice. Modern chemistry has brought new nutrients to the soil and has provided
407: How To Optimize Your Garden for Drought or Water Conservation
Being a gardener and based in Colorado, it has been stressful for me because this state has been experiencing a severe drought for years. Because of water scarce, the local government imposed prohibition to limit water consumption for plants and lawn. However, because I am implementing some effective strategies, My house is the only one that is in
408: How to Organise Colour in Your Garden
Just like most things in life, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If purple blooms put a smile on your face, then you should most definitely use plants with purple blooms. The same is true for any color you find pleasing. There are different disciplines to pull from when trying to decide on color choices, but those disciplines speak in generalit
409: How To Pick the Right Gardening Tools
If you want your garden be more attractive and if you take your gardening habit seriously, then, you may want the right tools to help you on this. However, you may just be tempted by various gardening tools available at the stores nearest you; you must be careful on selecting ones, they may just be a waste of money because you may not get the resul
410: How To Plan And Layout A Flower Garden
A flower garden adds a great deal of variety and beauty to the landscape. Many people find that laying out flower gardens is a very rewarding task. And, while it is possible to create a very attractive flower garden without planning it out first, it is much more efficient, in the way of saving time and money, to make a plan for what you would like
411: How To Plant A Country Hedge Preparing The Ground
Planting a hedge this autumn? You should be because the hedge planting season generally starts in November as plants go into dormancy. If so, now is the time to think about ground preparation. All hedge plants do better if there has been some element of preparation before planting although some prefer it 'rougher' than others.
This article de
412: How To Plant A Country HedgeChoosing Your Plants The Magnificent Seven
My last article on how to plant a country hedge covered what is involved in preparing the ground. This concentrates on helping you choose your hedging plants. A typical country hedge fulfils one or more of four purposes; it is a boundary marker, it is designed to keep live stock from wandering, it is a screen and it can be a wildlife habitat.
413: How To Pot Orchids
Bear one thing in mind when potting orchids: Don't use glazed or painted earthenware pots! Though decorative, they are damaging to plant growth. They keep the compost overwatered and underaired - both fatal to orchids. Otherwise, potting orchids - except for the trick of packing osmunda - is no different from potting azaleas or begonias.
Select
414: How To Prepare A Planting Bed
Preparing a bed in which to plant can appear at first glance to be a daunting task. If you have researched the topic, you most probably have become at least somewhat familiar with terms and words such as tilling, rototilling, pH, screened top soil, shredded top soil, the chemical method, the non-chemical method, and many more depending mostly upon
415: How to Prepare Your Garden for Winter
There are many people out there who think that once the first freeze comes, their gardening job is done for the year; no more weeding, no more digging, no more top soil, no more compost; and no more watering till next season. Well, I am going to let you in on a little secret: They are dead wrong. If you do the proper work in the fall, you will save
416: How To Propagate Your Roses Through The Proper Use Of Rose Cuttings
Roses were spread across the U.S. when early pioneers brought their rose cuttings with them in mason jars to plant them in the new areas they were moving to. This art of propagating roses has been around since Victorian times and it remains one of the easiest and most enjoyable endeavors for anyone with a garden. This also makes for a very inexpens
417: How To Safely Remove Thorns From Roses Without Damaging The Rose Or Yourself
One of the unfortunate negatives of roses has to be the thorns. The act of removing the thorns doesn't have to be one that injures you or the plant itself if you just follow some simple steps. You just have to have a little patience and take some precautions as we show in this article.
One thing that people do not realize is that the thorns cont
418: How to Stop Deer From Destroying Your Landscape
I really like seeing my colorful tulips in the spring and bright yellow daylily in the summer. But one major problem that I have encountered here in the Midwest is what is know as "deer browsing." Deer browsing basically means that your landscape becomes a salad bar for hungry deer.
I think that's a cute term, and deer themselves are even cuter,
419: How To Use Food To Describe The Range Of Ph In Soil
You flunked science in school. You can't pronounce all those chemical names on the fertilizer bag. You don't know the difference between nitrogen and nicotine but you want a green lawn or better looking plants.
Everyone you talk to tells you that you need to adjust your soil's "ph balance" but you simply don't understand what they're talking abo
420: How To Use Organic Compost With Bulbs
Organic compost is a potent resource for nutrients, however, because of this, there is something that needs to be said regarding its use with bulbs and how much compost to use with these plants as you carry them over into the next season. Typically with plants that are used in the springtime such as an Amaryllis, there is a certain process that mu
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