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Summer Flowers for Your Garden
Just as bulbs are the stars of a spring garden, annual plants are the stars of a midsummer garden. Gardeners prize annuals, because they produce many flowers. The flowers are brightly colored and make a beautiful display. Many of them are excellent for cu...
Spring Flowers for Your Garden
If you are going to have a flower garden, start with the flowers you like best. But there are other things to consider, too, in making your selections. It is wise for a beginning gardener to plant seeds that are easy to grow. Marigolds, zinnias, sweet aly...
Seed Starting: Growing Plants
Seed Starting: Growing Plants for Your GardenThere are some people who enjoy having to start out a garden from scratch. Here are some tips on how to start a garden through seeds. Prepare the following: Containers – you can use containers or flats yo...
Making Your Garden Part 3
Making Your Garden Part 3When the plants have bloomed and their leaves have died, bulbs go through a period of dormancy (rest) before their roots start to grow again in the fall. Some bulbs can be left in the ground to bloom year after year. Corms lo...
Making Your Garden Part 2
Making Your Garden Part 2Cover the seeds with light soil so that the little plants can push their way up easily. Plant more seeds in each row than the number of plants you expect to have in that row. Not all seeds germinate, or sprout. If you find you hav...
Making a Garden Part 1
Making Your Garden Part 1Making the garden is easy but dedication and hard-work are needed if you want to succeed in creating a productive garden. All you need to know are important pointers from which to work from. As you gain experience, you will be sur...
Planning Your Garden Part 2
Planning Your Garden Part 2: Considering the Height of the Plants Another thing to consider in deciding where to place the different kinds of flowers and vegetables is the height to which each plant will grow. Flowers show off well if they are arrang...
Planning Your Garden Part 1
 The success of a garden depends a great deal on the planning that is done beforehand. First map out your garden in detail by drawing it to scale. You can use a scale of ½ or ¼ inch to a foot. Your plan should show the plants you intend...
Lawn Mower Maintenance
 Chances are you own a rotary type lawn mower. If so, it will require regular maintenance to keep it in optimum working condition. Always use the manufacturer’s instruction manual that comes with the lawn mower when you purchase it and be sure ...
Growing Vegetables
As a rule, we choose to grow bush beans rather than pole beans. I cannot make up my mind whether or not this is from sheer laziness. In a city backyard the tall varieties might perhaps be a problem since it would be difficult to get poles. But these runni...
Types of Soil
Soil primarily had its beginning from rock together with animal and vegetable decay, if you can imagine long stretches or periods of time when great rock masses were crumbling and breaking up. Heat, water action, and friction were largely responsible for ...
Cultivating Vegetables
Before taking up the garden vegetables individually, I shall outline the general practice of cultivation, which applies to all.  The purposes of cultivation are three to get rid of weeds, and to stimulate growth by (1) letting air into the soil and f...
Home Vegetable Gardens
In deciding upon the site for the home vegetable garden it is well to dispose once and for all of the old idea that the garden "patch" must be an ugly spot in the home surroundings. If thoughtfully planned, carefully planted and thoroughly cared...
Landscape Gardening
Landscape gardening has often been likened to the painting of a picture. Your art-work teacher has doubtless told you that a good picture should have a point of chief interest, and the rest of the points simply go to make more beautiful the central idea, ...
Garden Pests
If we could garden without any interference from the pests which attack plants, then indeed gardening would be a simple matter. But all the time we must watch out for these little foes little in size, but tremendous in the havoc they make.  As human ...
Fighting Plant Pests
The devices and implements used for fighting plant enemies are of two sorts: (1) those used to afford mechanical protection to the plants;  (2) those used to apply insecticides and fungicides. Of the first the most useful is the covered fra...
How to Mow the Perfect Lawn
How often you mow your lawn will depend on a number of factors. Firstly how much time you have to devote to your lawn’s maintenance. How fast your lawn grows, and this in turn will depend on whether you fertilise it regularly and whether it recei...
Simple Lawnmower Maintenance Tips
Do you have trouble starting your lawnmower up in the spring? Before deciding to take your lawnmower in for repair, try these few simple suggestions. After completing them most of the time your lawnmower will fire up and run like a champ.Pull and clean th...