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  • Keeping your gardening tools fit and fine!  By : @ginfo
    You don’t want to keep your useless tools in your storage right? You will only fill up the room with broken tools, so you feel you want to throw everything out. Wow, that’s really a good way to throw out money.
  • How rare flowering bulbs can spice up your garden.  By : aprilbhisham
    Any experienced gardener knows the secret to a beautiful garden is in the bulbs. Flowering bulbs are usually quite hardy and undemanding and can provide the most amazing shower of spring and summertime colors. Bulbs naturally package all the essentials they need to flourish and grow. All that’s required is warming temperatures to bring the bulbs out of dormancy. The great thing about bulbs is the wide variety of colors and shapes you can produce.
  • Easy ways to control ants without using poison .  By : Sonukumar
    Ants are pests in the house. In the home common ants aren't
    harmful but they are a nuisance.
  • How to grow and care for Rhododendrons and Azaleas.  By : sabijivi
    Azaleas can be either evergreen or deciduous. Deciduous Azaleas are known as Mollis or Exbury Azaleas. They bloom in the early spring with vivid orange and yellow colors. They can be grown from seed if the seeds are collected in the fall and sown on top of moist peat at about 70 degrees F.
  • Know what you are taking on when you decide to start gardening!  By : Mayank verma
    Gardens come in different varieties like the plants you find in them. There are several gardening tips that can be used for all type of gardens.
  • How to control that snake in the grass in your garden!  By : ATWO
    To have a snake or two in the garden is good. Non-poisonous
    snakes, such as the common garter snakes, are beneficial
    creatures because they eat pest insects, mosquito larvae,
    slugs, snails, crickets, rats, mice, voles and even other
    snakes which may be poisonous.
  • How to make your garden grow!  By : Musharf
    The secret to making your flowering trees, shrubs, annuals, and perennials bloom more is in the numbers. All fertilizers have analysis numbers on the package. These numbers represent the percentage of each chemical the fertilizer contains.
  • What’s so special about a spaghetti garden.  By : Musharf
    One of the delightful pleasures of life are herbs. Besides adding beauty to your garden they make foods taste better and provide a pleasant scent to the air we breathe. In George Washington days everyone had a herb garden that they used for culinary, teas and medicinal purposes. That practice is slowly coming back.
  • Learn how to compost- the easy way.  By : Musharf
    It is becoming more and more obvious these days that we need to recycle as much as we can, and anyone with a garden has a head start and can make a great contribution. To many novice gardeners, including myself, this subject can be somewhat difficult to grasp; but in fact it is really straightforward - there are just a few very simple rules:
  • Your best gardening friends: Earthworms.  By : Musharf
    Research has shown that earthworm excrement, also called
    castings or vermicompost, improves the aeration, porosity,
    structure, drainage, and moisture-holding capacity of soil.
  • Choosing Annuals or Perennials for your Garden  By : Musharf
    The crocus delights us in early spring as it dares to peek through the snow and lift its face to the sun. Soon after follow tulips, narcissus, iris, lilacs… all perennials that welcome spring with vibrant color and fragrance. Perennial plants bloom at different times during the growing season and delight you with variety in color and size from earliest spring to late autumn.
  • How to get rid of slugs in your garden  By : Dipak Patra
    Slugs are major pests of horticultural plants throughout the
    world. They are destructive pests of home gardens,
    landscapes, nurseries, greenhouses, and field crops.
  • How to prune grafted and budded plants.  By : kamal
    Budding is a form of grafting. Grafting is the art of attaching a piece of one plant to another plant, creating a new plant. Grafting is usually done because the desired plant is extremely difficult if not impossible to propagate through other means. Dogwoods, for example, are easily grown from seed, however, it is next to impossible to grow a Pink Dogwood from seed. The seeds from a Pink Dogwood will produce seedlings that are likely to flower white.
  • How to add climbing roses to your landscape.  By : shashi pal
    What is more beautiful than seeing a home or building with an arch of climbing roses in the landscaping? Climbing roses are one of many plants that branch out and intertwine themselves among arches, trellises, or even buildings and railings. They can add a great landscape element to any foundation
  • How To Buy Cost Effective Landscaping Equipment  By : Jim Brown1
    All around the globe, designing and caring for one’s lawn and gardens is the favorite pastime of many people.
  • The Cultivation of Vegetables  By : Godfrey Philander
    As to weeds, the gardener of any experience need not be told the importance of keeping his crops clean.
  • Congenial Conditions To The Healthy Growth of Plants Part III  By : Godfrey Philander
    The proper condition of temperature is the most difficult thing to regulate and maintain in growing plants in the house.
  • Congenial Conditions To The Healthy Growth of Plants Part II  By : Godfrey Philander
    After so much advice as to the possibility of making conditions right for the growing of plants in the house, the inexperienced reader will naturally want to know what these conditions are.
  • Congenial Conditions To The Healthy Growth of Plants Part I  By : Godfrey Philander
    It certainly is true that many modern houses of the better sort do not offer very congenial conditions to the healthy growth of plants. It is equally certain that in many cases these conditions may be changed by different management in such way that they would be not only more healthy for plants to live in, but so also for their human occupants.
  • How To Light Up a Garden Fountain  By : Harry Nack
    If you have a garden fountain you can create amazing effect with some good lighting.

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