Maintaining a Compost Heap

Maintaining a Compost Heap Many people who maintain gardens have a large amount of organic waste, from grass clippings to leaves and dead...

Lawn fertilizing

Lawn Fertilizing: Which Way To Go? Lawn fertilizing is an integral part of any lawn care regimen and should be taken very seriously. The ...

Flower Gardening

Flower Gardening Flower gardening is becoming more and more popular every day.  Flowers can brighten everyone’s day, they smell nice, and ...

Shaping Trees for Different Situations

Shaping Trees for Different Situations Through the use of pruning techniques, it is possible to shape your tree to a certain style. There...

Gardening Advice

Gardening Advice Garden advice is not that hard to come by.  In fact, you can get gardening advice from another gardener, in a gardening ...

Dealing with Moths

Dealing with Moths Having a steady supply of fresh fruit from your backyard is quite a nice thing. Many people strive to attain this drea...

Typha latifolia

The Cattail The cattail, properly known as typha latifolia, is a genus of about eleven plants. The cattail is one of the most common and ...

Different Types of Apple Trees

Different Types of Apple Trees In the past, there have been only a couple different kinds of apple trees that you could buy. But now, tha...

Started and gotten into gardening

Gardening       The thing to remember while gardening is to start small.  A small plant bed, about 25 or 30 feet square is perfect, is ju...

Gardening Equipment for cultivating

Gardening Equipment Nearly every gardener has some type of gardening equipment.  In fact, it’s nearly impossible to have a garden without...

Adding a Fountain

Improving Your Garden by Adding a Fountain A great way to spice up your garden is to add a water feature. These can be both soothing and ...

The first thing in garden making

MAKING A GARDEN The first thing in garden making is the selection of a spot. Without a choice, it means simply doing the best one can wi...

Why Does Compost Stink

Why Does Compost Stink? Many people have somehow acquired the misconception that compost normally stinks, that it must be a smelly affair...

Motivation for planting a fruit tree

Selling at Farmer's Markets Usually the main motivation for planting a fruit tree is just the joy of maintaining a tree and eating th...

Options for organic mulching

Mulching for Free I’m sure that if you are reading this, you have used some form of mulch during your gardening career. However, you prob...

Gardening books are not expensive

Gardening Book Gardening books come in all different shapes and sizes and offer more information on gardening than can be found anywhere ...

Different types of gloves

Gardening Gloves One of the best things about gardening is felling warm, moist dirt in your bare hands, but you will often end up with bl...

Top dressing the lawn

Lawn Top Dressing And Soil Preparation Top dressing the lawn is basically the term used in describing the process of adding or dressing a...

The rose continues to enjoy great popularity

Pick The Best Roses For Your Garden Roses have long been a favorite amongst gardeners, and the rose continues to enjoy great popularity t...

How to Find Drought Resistant Trees

Finding Drought Resistant Trees If you live in an area that is slightly parched of water, you know better than anyone that one of the thi...