Archive for August, 2009

Feed For Your Garden Plants

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

One of the things that recreational gardeners forget is to feed the various plants in their gardens. Springtime is the best time to start feeding your plants as the ground is still moist from the Spring thaw and from early Spring rain. This helps your garden feed permeate into the soil much more easily. As [...]

The Best Flowers For Window Boxes

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Window boxes can add some much needed gardening space to small homes or perk up a window in any size house. They give the apartment dweller with no deck a place to garden and give the illusion of bringing the outdoors inside. Choosing what type of flowers to plant in your window box really depends [...]

Add Some Things of Interest to Your Garden

Friday, August 7th, 2009

The subject of gardening is so huge that there are hundreds and hundreds of ways you could add some iterest to your garden. There are many different categories that the interesting points in your garden can fall into as well from the way you choose to group different coloured plants together, to sculptures and water [...]

California Native Plant Gardens & The Drought

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

If you live in the Southwest, you just might be considering redoing your landscaping at your home. With the shortage of water and the possibility that some communities might actually limit the amount of water a household can use each month, it begins to make sense to replace your very thirsty lawn and to [...]

My Basic Herb Garden Tips - Talkin Dirt on Planting an Herb Garden With Chives Plants

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

You can dive into planting a basic herb garden in sublime blissful ignorance. Especially if you choose chives plants as your path into herb gardening. I speak from earthy experience. Despite a bucketful of blunders and missteps, my chives plants were thriving and bountiful.
I admit a happy chance landed chives plants into my life some [...]

Lawn Care - The Environmentally Friendly Way

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

People are afraid that if they switch to an environmentally friendly lawn care method, they will have difficulty having beautiful green grass because of grubs or unwanted weeds. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, if you have done the ground work, you will notice that an environmentally friendly lawn care system [...]

Garden Benches: Dress and Enhance Your Isolated Gardens

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Garden Benches: Embellish and Enhance Your Gardens into Dream Gardens. Horticulture is a spare-time activity that releases the collected tension from function and even grants you solace and happiness at the finish of the chore. It is fresh, Cozy and loosening to see the tasks of your work and you can just couch in the [...]

Gardening - Is it a Bulb and What do I do With It?

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Most gardeners know that daffodils, snowdrops, hyacinths and tulips grow from bulbs and that many other flowers grow from rhizomes, tubers or corms but what is the difference and can they all be treated in the same way?
There are many different definitions to be found, but I think these explain the variations in quite simple [...]

Garden Benches: Grace and Raise Your Abandoned Gardens

Saturday, August 1st, 2009

Garden Benches: Embellish and Heighten Your Gardens into Dream Gardens. Gardening is a hobby that releases the collected stress from work and even contributes you ease and happiness at the finish of the job. It is restorative, Comfortable and slacking to see the labours of your work and you can just couch in the sunlight [...]