295 articles on "garden"

How to Build a Simple Potting Bench

If you’re a gardener, a potting bench is a must-have item that will make your gardening tasks easier, more organized, and more efficient. With a potting bench, you’ll be able to store and organize all your gardening tools, planters, soil, and pla...

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Mossel Bay - a Small Harbour Town with a Lot of Muscle!

Mossel Bay - a Small Harbour Town with a Lot of Muscle! by: Gregory Hudson Named “Mossel Bay” by the famous Dutch navigator Paulus van Caerdon, whose crew consumed huge amounts of tasty molluscs after landing here in 1601. Today, this coasta...

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Composting the Easy Way

Having an ample supply of good rich compost is the gardeners dream. It has many uses, and all of those uses will result in nicer plants. However, composting can be time consuming and hard work. I place a reasonable value on my time, so spending hours...

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Maintaining and Fertilizing Bermuda Grass

Bermuda grass is a tough and resilient turf. By taking proper care of this type lawn you can maintain a tough turf that will be healthy and resist weeds. Bermuda grass will respond superbly if it properly fertilized. This type of grass requires a lar...

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Beware of Toxic Mulch

Beware of Toxic MulchMulching beds has become extremely popular these days, and mulch can be really beneficial to your plants and the soil in your planting beds, but there are things you need to watch for. Here in Ohio the most popular type of mulch ...

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Making Pond Liners

When making pond lines, you must get the rim level. If one part of the pond ends up lower than the rest, the water will run out at that point, leaving huge expanses of liner showing all around the rest of the pond. Level the site roughly by eye befor...

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Mulch Your Spring Flower Bulbs in the fall for a Beautiful Spring Display

Flower bulbs need a good, long, winters sleep. Like some people we know, if they wake up before they are fully rested, they get kind of cranky, and then they don’t bloom well at all. Actually what happens is during a mild winter, the soil stays too...

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Spring Planting Tips

Spring means that the garden centers are packed with people, and car trunks are packed with plants. Everybody has dirt on their knees, dirt under their nails, and are excited about gardening. To make certain that this excitement yields positive resul...

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The "Art" of Gardening by Examining Bonsai Tools

The "Art" of Gardening by Examining Bonsai Tools by: Michael Caputi Tools play an important role in gardening. Whether you use hand tools or power tools, it doesn't matter. The dance you have between your fingers and hands directly influenc...

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Spring Planting Tips

Spring is a beautiful season, eagerly anticipated by gardeners and plant enthusiasts around the world. It's the perfect time to start planting, and there are plenty of tips and tricks to ensure a successful and bountiful harvest. Here are some useful...

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