What Are The Benefits of Leaf Composting?

At the end of the summer season in a yard that’s had some issues with disease, or almost any yard, we’d recommend that you do some good fall sanitation. If you know that you’ve had diseases in the leaves of the tree or insect infestations, it’s a really good idea to rake up those leaves and get t...

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Simple and Effective Gardening Tips that You Should Know

Having a garden within your home can be a very impressive experience, although at the same time it does require quite a lot of commitment from your side. But this doesn’t mean that gardening is hard nor that it has to be boring. This is the main reason why we have compiled a list with some of...

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How To Choose The Right Fertilizer For The Right Use

When it comes to choosing a fertilizer for your lawn and garden, there are a lot of choices and it can be confusing. We’re going to share a few things with you about how to choose the right fertilizer for the right use in your lawn and garden.
Keep in mind that most fertilizers will contain...

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Bird Feeder Cleaning Tips for Happy and Healthy

Reference: Bird Feeder Cleaning | From the Ground Up

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So, as the weather warms, not only are we starting to think about growing plants again. We’re also probably starting to think about feeding the birds.
There are many types of feeders out there. And...

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10 Effective Vegetable Gardening Tips For Beginners

Starting a vegetable garden at home is an easy way to save money. Learning what to plant in a garden with vegetables, and how to tend them for the best harvest, is probably easier than you think. The following 10 simple tips will help you to create a more productive and less maintenance...

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Lawn Mower Maintenance and Tune Up Tips

Before the grass greens up and we need to get out there with a lawn mower to start taking care of our yards. It’s a good time to give our lawn mower a spring tune-up. Just check a few things to make sure it’s in working order before you get out there in your yard with it this spring.
You also...

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How to Winter Bird Feeding

Well, not only will we see our faithful residents like our cardinals, chickadees, tufted titmice, nuthatch, and on, but some of our winter residents are either on their way back or already here now. Birds such as your junco, many of your native sparrows, your sapsucker, your woodpecker family,...

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Preparing Your Garden Tools for Winter Storage

Gardening can become a heavy task if you don’t look after your garden tools properly. Preparing your garden tools for winter storage isn’t difficult, and shouldn’t take a long time. But it will pay bonuses next spring when your tools are rust-free and ready to use.
Pruning Shears and secateurs s...

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Anvil Pruners for Dry and Dead Growth Stems

Many deciduous shrubs can be pruned once the leaves have fallen in order to remove less productive, older wood or dead and damaged stems. The blades of bypass pruners can be forced apart on very hard stems, so anvil pruners are an essential tool. They have a single sharp blade that cuts down...

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Lawn Equipment on Deep Discount in September

If you looking to buy a new lawn equipment at discount price, this September is a right time. As we track prices year-round, so we can tell you this is a good time to buy lawn mowers, tractors and even snow blowers (for snowy weather ahead) on deep discount. Why? The discount occurs because...

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Lawn Equipment on Deep Discount in September

If you looking to buy a new lawn equipment at discount price, this September is a right time. As we track prices year-round, so we can tell you this is a good time to buy lawn mowers, tractors and even snow blowers (for snowy weather ahead) on deep discount. Why? The discount occurs because...

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How to Grow Your Own Blueberries Step-by-Step

Blueberries always great fruits for acidity soils, or a container. They love the well-drained acid soil and sunny but wet summers. If you like blueberries but hesitant about growing them, I will show you step-by-step how easy to grow you own blueberries. Delicious home grown berries were surely...

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Basic Tip To Avoid Garden Pests

One of the challenges of gardening can be those furry creatures or garden pests that want to come and enjoy your garden with you. Rabbits, moles, even deer, antelope, moose, depending on where you live. So the best way to deal with any of those creatures is to exclude them somehow.
That’s one o...

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A Guide To Garden Watering Can

A garden watering can seems likes such as basic garden tool that one would wonder how there could be any trouble in selecting one. However, there are dozens of varieties, with one being more suited to your needs than any other.
Watering can that pours badly or has a dodgy rose is at best...

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How To Perfect Potting

There are many reasons we re-pot plants, but primarily it is because the plant has outgrown its pot. Plants that are in a pot that is too small will not receive the water or nutrients they need to continue growing.
Another reason is that potting soil will not last forever in any pot. Over time,...

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Tips For Choosing The Right Tiller

Happiness and a garden tiller can go hand in hand. My gardening life is mine, yours is yours, and the chances that we’d find happiness with the same tiller are pretty darn slim. So, I won’t go with specific brand name testimonial. Instead let’s look at the makings of a good fit b...

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Why You Need To Wash Out Pots Before Sowing

Cleaning and disinfecting are important when sowing seeds, to improve germination and maximize the number of seedlings that make it into plants. Seeds and seedlings are prone to fungal infection, which can overwhelm them at their most vulnerable. The fungi develop from microscopic spores that...

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How to Plant Sweet Peppers

With their dark, glossy leaves and vibrant, shiny skins in a rainbow of hues, peppers make for a colorful addition to your outdoor space, whatever its size. Greenhouses, veg plots, patios and balconies can all become home to this summer harvest staple. With only the need for a warm site and...

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How to Grow Globe Artichokes?

Those with plenty of room on their plots can plan a designated bed for perennial globe artichokes. If not, the silvery, architectural foliage (which in most area dies back in winter) will grow happily in ornamental borders. Good winter drainage is essential, so on wet clay soils, a mounded bed...

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How Auxins Make Better Bonsai Trees

Growing plants is about the easiest thing in the world. You plant a seed or a cutting, give it water and sunlight, and nature takes care of the rest. You don’t need to know anything about the plant itself for it to grow and to enjoy gardening, but a little bit of technical knowledge can make the ...

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