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Perennial Gardens That Stay Healthy All Year Round
By: Holly Stevens | 30/09/2006 | Gardening
Learn how to ensure that your perennial garden will stay healthy season after season

Choosing a Greenhouse
By: Philip Swindells | 19/03/2006 | Gardening
A greenhouse is great asset for a gardener, but choosing the best structure requires careful attention. It is also important to select a suitable heating system and ensure that there is adequate ventilation.

Organic Gardening - A Growing Trend
By: Judith Schwader | 10/04/2006 | Gardening
In the past decade and a half, organic products have achieved almost mainstream status. Where organic produce was a specialty item in a few upscale grocery stores in the early 1990s, today's supermarkets commonly offer organically produced items.

Organic Gardening - The Pros And Cons
By: Judith Schwader | 16/04/2006 | Gardening
Picture three ripe red tomatoes arranged on a wooden cutting board awaiting your pleasure.

Savvy Gardeners Use Mulch To Make Garden Work Easier
By: Judith Schwader | 20/04/2006 | Gardening
Mulch provides many benefits to plants and soil: insulation, shade, moisture retention, weed reduction, and soil building. But when mulch is applied at the wrong time or in the wrong form, it can do more harm than good.

Annuals- Tender, Hardy and Half-Hardy
By: Sandra Dinkins-wilson | 26/04/2006 | Gardening
But to start with annuals, you may wish to know a bit about the basics. This begins with knowing the difference between tender, hardy and half-hardy plants. Just what do these mean...

How To Use Rain Barrels To Make Your Garden Survive In Droughts
By: Bercle George | 06/12/2007 | Gardening
Gardeners who have sufficient water supply are lucky to grow plants in their area. There are various areas that belong to the drought zones where gardening and watering laws are so constrictive to the growth of the plants.

How To Improve Garden Soil Naturally
By: Judith Schwader | 04/05/2006 | Gardening
For garden soil to remain healthy and support thriving plants, the gardener needs to add plentiful doses of organic material. Here are some low-cost, low-labor ways to feed your garden's soil.

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Push Reel Mowers, Real Benefits
By: Jeffrey Richard | 08/09/2008
I remember as a young child, trying to mow our small front yard with a reel push mower. I remember my dad made it look so easy but as a kid, I couldn't wait for the day I could get a mower with a motor! Well, guess what, now I...

Installing Lawn Sprinkler the Easy Way
By: Robert | 06/09/2008
This article illustrates how to install the lawn sprinkler the easy way. It also highlights some of the relevant useful tips.

Twelve Top Tips to Fruit Tree Planting Success
By: Julian Bosdari | 06/09/2008
Autumn is nearly here and with it comes the season for planting fruit trees. Bare root fruit trees are best; they have been field grown and tend to be larger, healthier and stronger than container grown trees and there is no risk of their being pot-bound. Here are twelve easy to follow tips that will help ensure your fruit trees establish, grow away well and crop heavily.

Fun and Safe Pool Floatation Devices for Children
By: Gunter Walderon | 06/09/2008
Each and every child is unique. If you are a pool owner with children you will know just what I am talking about. Almost all kids enjoy playing in the water with their floaties, but not every child likes the same kind.

The Best Season for Garden Design
By: Georg Rosenbrock | 05/09/2008
Garden Designs can take a long time to do. It is best to time your garden design well in advance of spring. This provides you with enough time to finalize the design and to accomplish any hard landscaping. Having a prepared garden plan has many great advantages

10 Weed Prevention Tips
By: Carrie Wykeham | 05/09/2008
Weeds are a gardener's nightmare and can really spoil your enjoyment of you garden. A gardener's dream is to have a lush, green lawn and neat, colourful borders all free from weeds. It is said that prevention is better than cure, and this is certainly true for weeds. Let weeds...

Composting - is it Just a Load of Rubbish?
By: Steve Cownley | 05/09/2008
Everything you always wanted to know about Composting - But didn't know who to ask. Why should you compost and what are the benefits and I try and dispel some of those myths about compost and its smells.

What is a Weed? Know Your Enemy
By: Carrie Wykeham | 05/09/2008
A weed is not a specific type of plant, it is simply an unwanted plant or a plant that is growing where it is not wanted. Once upon a time, this weed was a wanted plant and may have been introduced to the locality for a particular use - to...

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