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How to Plant on a Hillside

Planting on a hillside is a very challenging project. Although you can terrace a hillside, creating a series of wide steps up the hill, that method is very labor intensive and can get expensive. A better method, and one that is much more affordable, is to make a series of individual plantings, each ...More...

How to Choose a Grass Seed for Your Lawn

Choosing a grass seed to plant as your lawn may seem complicated. Not only are there several different species of grass seed to choose from, but there are countless varieties within a species that turf experts are always looking to improve. Sifting through the intricacies of lawn planting, however, ...More...

4 Easy-To-Grow Apple Trees for the Garden

A disease-resistant variant of the apple tree can avoid a lot of the issues related to apple scab, fire blight, powdery mildew, and bitter rot. Also, there are many bugs that can impact the growth quality of the fruit bearing trees....More...

How to Get Assistance to Build Farm Ponds

Providing a habitat for birds, reptiles, amphibians and mammals, farm ponds are desirable in many situations. The Natural Resources Conservation Service has a comprehensive booklet titled Farm Pond Ecosystems (see Resources). There is technical and financial assistance available for eligible landown...More...

Fairy Garden

The winning photos from the 2013 Garden Ornament Photo Challenge and ideas for using ornaments in your garden....More...

Hydroponic Tomato – how to grow them

Growing hydroponic tomatoes might not be complicated but through constant practice and a great deal of experience, it will be easy as 1-2-3. For those who has no experience growing tomato plants in a ...More...

Green Tongues - Quotes about Gardening

From the gardener who tends a single geranium in her windowsill, to the one who supplies bountiful bouquets of roses to floral shops, many people have spoken many words about the art and skill and benefits of gardening. Lets listen in to some of their voices, historical and contemporary, for in them...More...

How to Make a Hydrangea Macrophylla Deer Resistant

Hydrangea plants attract humans and deer alike. Deer often eat these large plants, destroying them in the process. Several plants repel deer, including daffodils, forsythia, juniper and foxglove. If you still wish to plant hydrangeas despite the deer-attracting tendencies, you can make them less tem...More...

Landscape ideas for your hot tub area

Landscaping for your hot tub is different than landscaping around your swimming pool, mainly because a hot tub is typically either placed on a deck or some other raised surface. Even if your hot tub i...More...

Guide to Planting Zones

Plant Hardiness Zones are a series of numbers ranging from 1 to 11 that represent the average annual minimum temperature of a region in the United States, Canada and Mexico. All plants are assigned a zone number that correlates with how winter hardy or how low of a temperature that plant can handle ...More...

Garden Composting - The Easy Way To Compost

With the rise of increasing amounts of pesticides and other chemical imbalances in our industrialized food, there is a quiet movement that is growing more loudly each day in the organic gardening fiel...More...