There’s lots to consider when planning a vegetable garden, any gardener who has one can tell you. But one important aspect that might not make the garden to do list is adding ‘friends’. Adding friends (or what’s sometimes called companion planting) isn’t something you do so the plants have someone to share a laugh with [...]
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Even Plants Need Friends
Posted in Gardening Tips, tagged aphids, cabbage, caterpillars, maragolds, nasturtiums, organic gardening, pest control, pesticide free, tomatos, vegetable gardens on March 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Depth of a Clematis
Posted in Gardening Tips, tagged clematis, planting clematis, root ball, vines on March 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
No luck with growing Clematis last year? Did your attempt at covering up the neighbors ugly fence result in something that looked more like a washed up, dried out lump of sea weed then an actual plant? The depth of the planting hole might have had something to do with it. The root ball of [...]
Lables and Branches
Posted in Gardening Tips, tagged gardening journal, gardens, identifing plants, labeling plants on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You’re walking through a sea of beautiful plants at the garden center, and out of the corner of your eye you gaze upon the perfect plant. You have no idea what it is, but it has a trusted label attached to the branch, so you really don’t need to ask. After a very slow drive [...]
Ponds, Trees, and the Sun
Posted in Gardening Tips, tagged fish, pond fish, pond location, pond plants, water plants on February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When considering where to dig your new pond keep two things in mind, sunlight and trees. Sunlight is important for pond plants to generate food; sunlight will also reduce the amount of unwanted algae that can spread through out a pond very quickly. Digging a pond near a tree or a group of trees is [...]
American Gothic and Mulching
Posted in Gardening Tips, tagged American Gothic, garden, gardening, Grant Wood, moving mulch, mulch, pitch fork on February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When you look at the famous painting American Gothic I bet you didn’t know that Grant Wood was letting you in on a little secret on how to mulch a garden bed. Using a shovel to move mulch around is much harder then it has to be, a pitchfork on the other hand is a [...]
Sow a Needle Pulling Thread
Posted in Gardening Tips, tagged gardening, gardening tip, how to sow seeds, seedlings, seeds, sowing seeds on February 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sowing (that doesn’t include a needle and thread) is one way to start spring a little early. There’s something quite rewarding about sowing seeds, starting from next to nothing and ending up with a garden is pretty neat when you think about it. But like everything sowing seeds requires a little know how to be [...]
The Fear of Pruning
Posted in Gardening Tips, tagged flowering shrubs, how to prune, late season flowering shrubs, pruning, spring flowering shrubs on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the most confusing things in gardening is pruning. When to prune? How to prune? How much to prune? Are all questions running through a gardeners mind. So how do you make pruning simple? Well for now, let’s just concentrate on flowering shrubs, or we’ll be here forever. A general rule of thumb for [...]
Feng Shui Garden Style
Posted in Gardening Tips, tagged feng shui, garden, garden tips, house, plants on February 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you’re into feng shui for the garden here’s a little tip; leaves of trees and shrubs should not come in contact with the walls of a house, it’s believed contact between plant and house can suck energy from the walls.
No Water No Problem
Posted in Gardening Tips, tagged collecting water, drought, gardening tip, gardens, water ban on February 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
During the dog days of summer it’s normal for towns to issue a water ban, but how do you keep your garden looking lush without watering? The answer, collecting water. Yes it’s exactly what it sounds like; you would be surprised how much water is ‘wasted’ both inside and outside of your home. The first [...]
A Chilly Shock
Posted in Gardening Tips, tagged cold water, garden, gardening, Gardening Tips, plants, warm water, water shock, watering on February 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On a blistering hot summers day you would think your favorite plant would like an ice cold drink, but cold water can actually shock a plant. Fill up a few watering cans and let the cans sit out in the sun. Once the water has increased a few degrees in temperature, go ahead and water [...]
