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Water Features Can Transform Your Boring Backyard

How do you take a boring backyard and transform it into something special? Add a water feature. Water features can transform the ordinary into something incredible as well as hide road noise creating a peaceful ...

Benefits of Growing Your Garden Organically

Find out about the many advantages of producing organic vegetables in your own home garden. Vegetables that you pick fresh from your garden retain their flavor and nutrition. Work with nature to give you nutrient rich soil that will produce beautiful vegetables to enjoy all year long.

Hardscaping Idea

Hardscaping consists of elements like pathways, decks and driveways that do not include plants or trees. Basically, they can dictate the design of your yard and how you decide to use your outdoor space. You can set the whole tone of your area by what you include such as a tranquil Zen environment wi

Planting Raspberries - Tips to Plant Raspberries in Your Garden

One day, while watering my planter box of raspberries, I reflected on all the deliciousness these shrubs have brought me. Not only do they provide wonderfully tasty fruit (especially when eaten freshly picked and warmed by the sun), but they are easy to care for. Here is some advice learned over thr

Something Is Killing My Vegetable Plants

Vegetable gardens require planning and hard work. Planting, weeding, fertilizing and harvesting make a vegetable patch more labor intensive -- and ultimately more rewarding -- than a well-kept flower garden. Unlike a flower garden that can be restored with a flat of annuals when the neighborhood hoo

Plants and its growth rate in an aquaponics system

How to Aquaponics? Aquaponics system is not only great for leafy green vegetables. It's possible to just grow about anything: root crops and even seeds. Usually you can use a mixture of seedl

5 Tips For Happy Rose Bush Care

Choosing a rose bush to grow and planting it in a site in your garden is only one step towards being successful at rose bush care. In order for your rose bush to stay alive and remain healthy, it should be fed, watered, pruned, and mulched carefully and regularly. In caring for roses, you can antici

How to Fertilize a Pindo Palm

The Pindo palm, also known as Butia capitata, is a very popular tree in the state of Florida. It has a thick gray trunk and fronds that are blue-gray and are curved coming out of the top of the tree. Pindo palms, as all plants, can benefit from appropriate fertilization.

How to Create a Simple Healing Garden

Most medicinal plants are so easy to grow they are considered weeds where they are native. But if we only knew what bounty lies at our feet and along our roadsides! It’s also easy to create a space for many of these small helper plants, even if all you have to offer them is an apartment balco

Organic Fertilizer or Synthetic Fertilizer - Which is Right For Me?

You are not alone if you stand, staring at the fertilizer bags every Spring wondering what the difference is.All the bags show a lush lawn that creates envy.There are a few basic differences between organic/natural fertilizer and synthetic fertilizer to keep in mind.

Simple Upgrades to Improve the Value of Your Home

Few people are aware of this idea, but doing minor upgrades around the home can add a substantial amount to the market value of a home. There seems to be an equitable balance for people ...

Powerful Pointers in Growing Orchids Indoors

There are many speculations about growing orchids indoors. Others may say that it is challenging and that they have failed miserably. Still, many would say that it is a breeze and anyone can do it. The truth is, there are a lot of places in your home that these flowers may bloom. You would be pleasa

Top 7 Plants for Texture in Garden Design

Texture, in garden design, generally refers to the surface quality of the plant. This is a feature, taking in conjunction with color and the overall form or shape of the plant, used to create interest and balance in garden design. Plant textures run the gamut from delicate and fine to coarse and bol

Where Aphids Are Usually Found?

Aphids are the most common insects found on trees, shrubs, and garden ornamental plants. Over 350 different aphid species occur in the state but most can feed on only a few species of plants. Aphids ...

Organic Gardening - Heirloom Tomatoes

Growing tomatoes that have the quality taste you will enjoy. Heirloom Tomatoes are a great choice to grow when you are looking for that special tomato. There are many varieties to choose from and they all have there own personal quality.

Materials for Raised Vegetable Garden Beds

To determine the best materials to use in creating your raised vegetable garden beds we need to consider things like location, weather, and design. If your sole purpose is to grow vegetables, then using timber for your garden bed frame is enough. If your reason to build one is not just for vegetable

Garden Plants for Crafting

Globe thistle is one of many flowers that can be used to make craft items such as potpourri or fire starters.Jordan Siemens/Photodisc/Getty ImagesMany garden plants are useful for making crafts. Allow your plants to grow naturally, or force them into the required shapes by bending and...