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Adding a Garden Room: What You Should Consider First
Tweet Here’s what you should consider first when adding a garden room before finalizing your plans or meeting with a builder. The Space’s Feasibility Start by checking what’s allowed in
4 of the Best DIY Pruning Tips for Your Garden Plants
Pruning assists garden plants to not only grow strong but also look attractive and neat. Pruning garden plants will remove any damaged branches. It will also create a well-defined shape and allow for fresh growth.
7 Steps to Maintaining a Healthy Garden
Maintaining healthy and biologically active soil in your garden contributes to healthier plants that are less vulnerable to diseases and pests,
increased yields and lesser runoff or wasted water…
4 Important DIY Pruning Tips for Garden Plants
Pruning helps garden plants to not only grow strong, but also look attractive and neat. Pruning of garden plants is done to remove any damaged branches, create a well-defined shape and allow for fresh growth.
Increase Your Garden Shed Space in 3 Easy Steps
A garden shed is a bigger asset than you may think – it’s a place to keep your tools, things you don’t need around the house and even larger items, like a lawn mower. However, what happens when garden sheds become too small?
Tips on How to Get Started with Gardening
Tweet It might sound easy, but rest assured that there is a lot of ground to cover in order to become an expert gardener. It all, however, starts with basics.
Soil PH And Your Garden Plants – What You Need to Know
Soil PH is, without doubt, one of the most crucial factors to consider when designing and planning a garden. This is largely because different plants show varying tolerances to different soil PH levels.
Updating Your Yard This Summer? Tips To Save Money And Get The Look You Want
The yard is one of the most notable features of the home and often determines the property value. For those looking to spend more time outdoors during the summer season and enjoy activities in the yard, there are several upgrades available that can be done at a low cost.
Growing Your Dinner – 5 Cool Garden Ideas to Try Right Now
If you enjoy the freshness of locally grown produce from your neighborhood farm stand, consider growing your own kitchen garden. You can tailor your garden to suit your culinary preferences, and you will save money by growing these ingredients yourself.
Backyard Birding: Getting Ready for Spring
As winter recedes and spring advances, you will begin to notice some changes around your yard. Of the feathery kind.
Curb Appeal and Your Home
Tweet That appeal is often in the eye of the beholder, but there are some improvements you can make that will enhance its eye appeal quickly. 1. Make use of
Growing Tomatoes: Tips and Tricks
Warmer weather means vegetable gardens are taking hold, with peas, radishes, spinach and turnips among the first vegetable to be harvested.
Yard Care: Managing Water Usage
Review your water bill in the warmer months and your eyes may bulge out of your sockets. That’s because you’ve been using hundreds of extra gallons per month to maintain the pool, tend to your garden beds and to maintain the lawn.
Spring Gardening: What to Plant and When
Warmer weather means that flowers are out, trees are in bud and homeowners may be deciding what to plant in their vegetable gardens this year and when. Some backyard gardeners have had their seeds in place since winter, beginning the process indoors for transfer outdoors following the season’s final frost.
Why You Should Hire A Landscape Designer
Let’s face it: your yard is a complex ecological environment, filled with flora and visited by fauna, offering a delicate balance between the natural and the manmade.
7 Quick and Easy Fall Yard Projects
Beautiful fall weather is here, offering a welcome contrast to the hottest days of summer. The next few months promise to serve up enough days that are not too warm and not too cold.
Your Summer Composting Project
Summer home projects should be easy, reflecting the slower pace of life we all prefer to take on most sunny, sultry afternoons. Nevertheless, yard care never ceases unless you’re in a severe drought and your lawn has turned dormant.
You Can Winterize Your Garden
Tweet As long as the ground hasn’t frozen, you can still winterize your garden. From early autumn in most northernly locations to almost winter in the deep south, you can
Growing Your Own Herb Garden
Tweet One day when my daughter brought home a basil plant she grew for me for Mother’s Day, only then did I start to think that I could grow my
How to Get Your Lawn & Garden Ready for Fall
Tweet With summer now behind us, fall is the perfect time of the year to prepare your lawn and garden for the cooler months ahead. This means taking some steps
