Archives for Gardening
My Seed Potatoes Don’t Grow – What’s the Next Course of Action?
Your containers are fertilized. The patio is getting enough sunlight. The seed potatoes that you haggled for at the farmer’s market are planted and you have been watering your...
What NOT to do while Protecting your Home Garden from Animals
Rat traps and other such contraptions are inhumane even if they permanently get rid of animals that keep uprooting your prize potatoes. Can you really blame a hungry forest...
Weeping Blue Atlas Cedar – How to Grow and Care
The weeping blue atlas cedar, also known as the Cedrus atlantica ‘Glauca Pendula’ and the Cedar of Lebanon, is and evergreen conifer tree grown in residential landscapes and ornamental...
Follow These Easy Instructions On Pruning Rhododendrons
Rhododendrons, a group of evergreen, flowering shrubs growing 4 feet to 10 feet tall, are counted among the most attractive plants grown both indoors and outdoors. The spring blooming...
Do You Know Muhly Grass? It’s Beautiful !
Muhly grass is a type of ornamental grass indigenous to North America. It is named after Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg, the American amateur botanist. There are many varieties of...
Interested in Growing Wheatgrass?
Wheatgrass is rich in countless vitamins and other nutrients that are essential for keeping your body and mind healthy. Drinking wheatgrass juice every morning is considered to be one...
Getting Annoyed By Voles? Learn How To Get Rid Of Them
Voles are small mouse-like animals that can make your life miserable if they make nests in your garden or backyard. These animals are quite different from moles in their...
How to Grow and Prune Tomato Plants in an Urban Garden
Spring is here! It is time to grow those tomatoes. However it can be hard to grow tomatoes in an urban garden if you do not know the basics....
How to Get Rid Of Yellow Jackets Around the House
Yellow jackets are a type of invasive wasps that can build their nest anywhere around your house – in the garden, under the flower beds or even inside a...
Lawn Grubs – How to treat them effectively in early Spring
Lawn grubs are the scourge of the garden enthusiast. They live within the soil, chewing on the roots of the grass, which in turn begins to ruin the grass...
Do Potatoes have Seeds – How can I grow them?
Do potatoes have seeds? Yes they do. However, if you think that you will find them in the part that you eat then you are gravely mistaken. That is...
The Everyday Guide to Buying a Bird Feeder
If you’re thinking about buying a hanging bird feeder, you have three main types to choose from: tube, satellite or hopper. Whatever feeder you decide is right for you,...
Helping Roses Survive the Winter
Popular roses like floribundas, hybrid teas and climbers need help to survive cold winters – particularly if the weather routinely gets down to 10 degrees or so. If you...
Getting Started with Container Gardening
Just because you live in an apartment or you don’t have a grand yard to design a big beautiful garden doesn’t mean you can’t have a garden at all....
Designing the Perfect Herb Garden
An herb garden is a wonderful thing to have. You may think of an herb garden as an already specialized type of garden, but there are actually many ways...
Are Chrysanthemums A Fall Flower?
Chrysanthemums or “mums” are traditionally used in the early fall for decorating gardens and walkways but they generally bloom from late July to mid fall when the frost arrives....