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Gardening – Where To Start – Choosing The Right Seeds For Your Garden
Nov 25th
Seed selection can make or break your garden. If you select the wrong seeds you can end up with a very pitiful looking garden. What goes into choosing the right seeds?
If you are saving your seeds from you own plants you have a little more control over what plants the seeds come from. You will want to select plants that are hardy & contain a good number of blooms. Choosing seeds from a plant that is a little puny looking but with one or two very lovely blooms is not likely going to give you a plant that is hardy More >
A Gardeners Nightmare
Nov 20th
Some people are blessed with green fingers. Others are blessed with a talent for murdering plants in cold blood, no matter how hard they attempt to nurture & tend. I fall into the second category, as if you had not already guessed.
You would think that, being a person of some limited capability with regard to gardening, I would live in a place consisting mostly of concrete with the occasional indestructible tree defying all my attempts at slaughter. Instead, I live in a garden which stretches the entire length of my house & is at least four times the width.
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Safe Gardening
Nov 15th
With summertime activities getting into swing, many people are spending time outside planting, weeding, & tending to their gardens. Even though gardening is a chore for some & a hobby for others, it also gives an intense workout, using all of the body’s major muscle groups. It is important to prepare joints & muscles prior to gardening to protect your back from all the bending, twisting, reaching & pulling it entails. Like any exercise, gardening requires proper warm-up & technique to avoid injury. The simplest warm-up is walking. Do you follow? This should be followed by some flexibility exercises. Right. More >
Gardening For Beginners
Nov 10th
Deciding on the type of garden you wish to grow will depend on a number of factors. You will need to take all sorts of issues in to consideration when deciding on the nature of your garden. For instance, how much room do you have to create your garden? If you live in a house with a large yard & plenty of room to devote to your plants, the type of garden you grow will be very different from the garden of some one who lives in an apartment with only a window box or small balcony for their plants.
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Enjoy the Life of Gardening – A Relaxing Sense Of Accomplishment!
Nov 5th
Everyone in your family, including your children, will enjoy planting a vegetable garden. Even when you include your children, you can still have a very delightful garden in which virtually everyone can enjoy spending time together. Of course, you may want to add some pumpkins, watermelons or sunflowers to your garden since these are things that your children will really enjoy.
Grow A Pizza Garden
There are a lot of ways in which you can go about planting an organic garden, filled with wonderful tasting vegetables. One way that you can do this is by planting a theme garden. For instance, you More >
Gardening My Parent’s Way
Nov 1st
My parent’s house is my most favorite place in the world. This is what’s funny about that… My parents frustrate me very badly & I do not really get along with them very well. However – their yard is very relaxing to me & I think of it as an oasis from my busy life. My parents do not have a professional landscaper & do the work themselves, which is amazing to me since their yard looks like it came straight out of one of those landscape magazines.
My parents live in the middle of a big city on a quiet More >
Four Easy Steps to Successful Gardening
Oct 27th
All successful gardens thrive & produce abundantly using these basic four steps: planning, preparation, planting & maintenance.
Whether these four steps are done simply or in a complicated procedure, it is totally up to the gardener. Very large gardens with numerous plots all growing something different & tiny gardens that only harvest simple cuts of plants, both require the same steps for the gardener to follow.
Planning
First thing you will want to do is plan where to place your garden, looking specifically for the available sunlight exposure.
Then, you should find out exactly how much sun & water your plants will need to More >
Gardening Made Easy
Oct 22nd
When starting out with gardening, you should start small. Start with a small plant bed of about 25 or 30 square feet which is perfect for about 30 plants. You can attempt out your green thumb & expand & increase your plantings should you enjoy it.
Choosing a suitable site is the next thing to do. The gardening site must get at least six hours of sunlight. You should keep away from large trees that will away nutrients & water from your plants. Also, keep at least three feet from any fence or building. You may also want to select More >
Enjoy the Fine Art of Gardening
Oct 17th
Gardening is an activity that can be enjoyed by your entire family, even your children. Even so, your garden can still be a very delightful place in which to spend time. If you would like to plant a vegetable garden, you may have to make some alterations to allow your children will especially enjoy planting such things as pumpkins, watermelons & sunflowers.
Creating While Gardening
There are many ways in which you can plant vegetables in your garden, but the best way to do this is through organic gardening. Here you can grow such things as a theme garden. For instance, you More >
Gardening Is Good For Your Health
Oct 12th
When you start out gardening it can be very overwhelming. There is a lot of different things to be done in a garden & choosing the right garden tools for each job can be a challenge. Make sure that whatever tools you buy for gardening, whether they are cordless tools or not, are easy to use. You should also take particular care if you are prone to back aches & pains. Bending over all the time in the garden can make these worse. You want to purchase tools that can help you stand straight when you work. Make sure your More >