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Tips For Planting Your Garden

Chances are, if you haven’t started planting already, you’re at least thinking about getting your hands dirty. We’ve assembled a few tips for you to consider before coming in and picking up your supplies. Plan first and shop later When thinking of what you’d like to grow, be sure to choose...

Starting a Hydroponic Garden: Tips for Beginners

Hydroponic gardening is defined by the method of growing plants using mineral nutrient solutions or inert mediums such as perlite, gravel, or mineral clay pebbles without any use of soil. Hydroponics is a widely used method for harvesting plants, but can also be very complicated. Here are a few...

Shear Madness

Graceful fountainlike or upright flowering shrubs (such as flowering quince, forsythia, and lilac) look best when they’re gently shaped...not tortured into shapes that a French poodle might envy. A more reasonable objective is to enhance a plant’s natural form and maintain the health of the...

Ring Around The Roses

This Valentine's Day give those dozen roses a different look. Forget the vase and create a sweetheart wreath instead. It's made from your roses and green foliage such as ivy or eucalyptus. Wreaths are also a great way to display roses from your garden and make great gifts for family and friends...

Build an Indoor Window Planter

An indoor window planter livens up your counter or table in front of a window, or hanging on decorative brackets that you install just below the window. The container is waterproofed on the inside and will not be exposed to harsh weather conditions, so you can choose a wood and...

Don't Just Ditch the Tree

The relatives are gone, the kids are back in school, and the Christmas tree has shed its last needle. Yes, it's the end of the holiday season and time to say good-bye to your once live and beautiful tree. But don't just throw it on the trash heap (or into your neighbor's yard at 3 am). Instead...

Protecting Indoor Plants This Winter

With windows closed and the heat on, the winter months can be extra hard on indoor foliage. Here's a simple solution: Place a humidifier near the plants. For a more low-tech approach, put the planters on top of a tray filled with loose-stones or pebbles and water. This way, water slowly...

Have a Tree-mendous (and SAFE) Holiday

Here are some tips to help to have a beautiful and safe holiday. The key is making sure your tree stays watered. So, before you set up your Christmas tree, make a fresh, straight cut across the base of the trunk (about a quarter inch up from the original cut) and place the tree in a tree stand...

Fallproof Your Roof

As fall blows into town, take a look at your roof and see what needs to be pruned from nearby trees. Limbs that grew during the summer may be hanging down too close. If branches are actually hitting the roof, they can trap moisture and cause mildew. Even if branches are not actually touching...

The Joy of Bulbs and Tubers

No other types of plants will give your garden more beauty, or a wider range of variety, color and flowering times than flowering bulbs. They produce flowers of incredible colors from one end of the growing season to the other. Nothing else will reward you with so much pleasure for so little...

Fall Garden Clean Up is Spring Preparation

Every good gardener knows that there is a season for everything. The best gardeners know how to make each season count. What if I told you that cleaning up your garden will help prepare you for spring in more ways than you ever imagined? Fall garden cleanup is important; next spring when the new...

Build a Vine-Covered Archway to your Yard

How to Enjoy a Fine Vine all Summer Long Often located at the entrance to a garden or patio area, a "pergola" is a vine-covered gateway that's crawling with flowering vines and can help even a small space feel distinctive. Despite the fancy Italian name, a pergola is essentially just a series of 2,...

Saving Summer's Bloom

You'd need a greenhouse to enjoy fresh blossoms year-round, but drying flowers can help preserve their memory for you throughout the winter. Start by picking the flowers you want to save at the height of their beauty, around midday when there's little moisture trapped inside the petals. Pick...

Killer Bee Attacks and Facts

In summer you're outdoors a lot, in the yard, on picnics, hiking and camping. It's easy to accidentally disturb a bee hive which can be serious, especially if they attack in numbers. If this isn't bad enough a new, tougher bee is here and these killer bees are spreading fast. They anger quicker...

Get Ready, Get Set, Plant!

Wouldn't it be lovely if you could just dig a hole, plant your flower and forget about it? But that technique doesn't make a great garden. Give some thought to preparing your soil and deciding what parts of your landscape are going to require sun-loving plants and where you'll need to place...

Your Tomatoes Need Some Support

Do all tomato plants need support? In a short answer, no. But here's the real explanation: There are two types of plants, determinate and indeterminate, each with a different growing habit. Most tomato plants tend to be the indeterminate type, meaning that the plant continues to grow - more...

Mid-Summer Classics

There are many very attractive bloomers that thrive in the mid-summer heat. Add vibrant reds and yellows for that weekend garden party. Place some softer pastels around your front door and back patio. And remember, summer color is not restricted to just the flower's bloom. Expand your ...

Tips For Spring Weed Killing

Surely you’ve heard of spring cleaning but spring weed killing can be a whole lot more interesting. Here are some things according to Dawn West of AllAboutLawns.com to help you beat out the weeds:Preemptive strikeThere’s no better way to fight them than if they’re not there yet. If you know that...

Choosing & Using Spreaders

No matter what kind of lawn products you use, their performance depends in large measure on the quality of the spreader that you use to apply them. A poor-quality spreader often leaves missed streaks or patches in the lawn where the material is either not applied, or is applied at the wrong rate....

Cutting Comments

With spring's bloom just weeks away, take a look at your shrubs and consider pruning them. To encourage strong growth, cut away dead, damaged or spindly branches. And if you want to reshape the plant, do it now rather than when foliage starts masking the underlying branch structure. Even if a...

Wintertime Green Thumb

Do you miss the great taste of fresh-from-the-garden spices and veggies? Then start a little mini-garden in your kitchen by planting some fresh herbs and vegetables. It's really pretty easy. All you need are some planters, soil, seeds and light. In well-lit areas, you can grow parsley, chives,...

Repotting Can Cure Your Winter Blues

If you're eager to get your hands back into the soil, now's a great time to get your fingernails dirty! Mid winter is perfect for repotting your indoor plants since many plants need to be transplanted into larger containers every two to three years. Here are a few signs that tell you that it's...

Holiday Lights Done Right

If you're starting to put up holiday lights it's time to remember which are for indoor or outdoor use. Afterall, it is important to know which is which. Read the box to find out how many strands can be linked together (before you start blowing the mini-fuses in the plugs). For outdoor...

How to Preserve Your Christmas Tree

Some people believe that Christmas just isn’t Christmas without a real Christmas tree. In any case, there are some steps you can take to make sure your tree stays healthy and well-preserved throughout the holiday season. • Prepare For Your Tree: Make sure you have a stand that can hold at least one...

Forcing Bulbs for Winter Color

You can add color to your indoor garden during the drab days of winter by forcing bulbs into bloom. Forcing causes bulbs to flower before they normally would outdoors. Start the process in autumn. Buy the best-quality bulbs you can find. When you pick out bulbs, examine them thoroughly. You...

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Recent Blog Posts

Tips For Planting Your Garden

Starting a Hydroponic Garden: Tips for Beginners

Shear Madness

Ring Around The Roses

Build an Indoor Window Planter

Don't Just Ditch the Tree

Protecting Indoor Plants This Winter

Have a Tree-mendous (and SAFE) Holiday

Fallproof Your Roof

The Joy of Bulbs and Tubers

Fall Garden Clean Up is Spring Preparation

Build a Vine-Covered Archway to your Yard

Saving Summer's Bloom

Killer Bee Attacks and Facts

Get Ready, Get Set, Plant!

Your Tomatoes Need Some Support

Mid-Summer Classics

Tips For Spring Weed Killing

Choosing & Using Spreaders

Cutting Comments

Wintertime Green Thumb

Repotting Can Cure Your Winter Blues

Holiday Lights Done Right

How to Preserve Your Christmas Tree

Forcing Bulbs for Winter Color