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Planting Strawberries Strawberries will do best in soil that has been thoroughly prepared. If your future strawberry bed was plowed last year, you're ahead of the game.   |
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Planting Apple Trees Choose a site with full sun, moderate fertility, and good air circulation and water drainage. Apple trees will tolerate a wide range of soil conditions. While you can improve your soil with fertilizer and mulch, other factors will go a long way toward overcoming less-than-perfect soil. |
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Planting Groundcover Use low-growing perennial plants and shrubs as groundcovers to cover slopes and rough ground or to replace high-maintenance lawns. Choose plants that thrive in your particular soil and climate. |
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Oriental Poppy Sporting huge, cup-shaped blooms in early summer, the Oriental poppy is the most striking of the perennial poppies, and the delicate, papery flowers belie the plant's hardiness and durability. But you should still heed these tips. |
| National Gardening |
Buying Grapes Grapes are easy to grow. And two healthy vines are enough for most home growers. |
This Old House
Jerry Pavia |
Versatile Vines These fast-growing plants could be your best landscape investment this summer. |
| National Gardening |
Plugging and Sprigging a Lawn A how-to guide for planting warm-season grasses. |
This Old House
Thomas Baker |
Dividing Plants What to do when a perennial gets too big for its bed? Divide and conquer! |
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Perennials 101 Owing to a fairly recent revival of the casual "cottage garden" look, perennials are more popular with today's home gardeners than they ever have been. |
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Tools for Planting Using the right tools and the proper techniques will not only make planting less of a chore, but also a greater success. |
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Corn: Planting Variations If you like experimenting, there are some variations on the basic planting methods you may want to try. |
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Trench Planting Your Root Crops A quick way to improve soil for root crops... |
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Caring for Potatoes Caring for potatoes requires proper watering, cultivating and hilling. |
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Tools for Preparing the Garden Before a single plant even touches the ground in your garden, it would be wise to spend time preparing the soil. You'll have fewer weeds and diseases and better plant growth, flowering, and fruiting later. |
National Gardening
Lance Walheim |
How to Buy and Plant Trees Improve the health and longevity of your trees... |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
Bulb Planting Know-how You can avoid many bulb problems simply by planting and fertilizing correctly... |
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Charlie Nardozzi |
Fungi for Roots Mycorrhizae fungi help plants grow... |
This Old House
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Temporary Transplanting Tips How to keep displaced plants alive for up to a year. |
| National Gardening |
Planting Bearded Iris Here are a few things you can do to get your bearded iris off to a good start. |
| Garden Gate |
Summer Escape: Planting Beneath Shade Trees If you've ever tried to grow a garden under a tree, you know that your plants have to compete with the tree's roots for space, water and nutrients. Here are some tips that can make growing a garden under a tree easier. |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
Soil Common Sense Five simple home tests for basic soil problems, with proven remedies |
| National Gardening |
Corn Care Corn doesn't need any more attention than other garden vegetables, but it's a crop that can take up a fair amount of time if you plant a lot. Make it easier by combining tasks. |
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Dividing Perennials For one reason or another, most gardeners will need to divide their perennials at some point. Here are some guidelines. |
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Asparagus Essentials Information about the planning, preparation, planting, care and harvesting of asparagus. |
This Old House
September 2007
Roger Cook |
Fall Groundwork "This is prime time to prep your yard for the next growing season," says our landscape contractor. |
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Fruit Tree Site Selection Of primary importance when choosing a planting site for you fruit tree is that it receives as much sun as possible. |
| National Gardening |
Amazing Annual Vines If you've been growing common vines, like morning glory and sweet peas, consider trying something new this year. Here are a few suggestions. |
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Maintaining a Vegetable Garden Healthy, vigorous vegetable plants produce the most flavorful and bountiful harvests. Give your garden plants the moisture and nutrients they need, and keep them weeded and harvested for tasty and nutritious crops. |
| National Gardening |
Establishing a Wildflower Meadow A how-to guide for planting a wildflower meadow. |
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Growing Endive & Chicory In recent years gourmet European and Asian greens have gained popularity in this country. They add a spicy taste and an interesting texture to regular salads. |
National Gardening
June 2000
William Bryant Logan |
Helping Plants to Help Themselves Mycorrhizal fungi promote plant growth and reduce fertilizer dependence |
| National Gardening |
Cultivating Greens Weeds are green and while some, like lamb's quarters and purslane, can be eaten as greens, you really don't want them growing in among your salad crops. They steal moisture, fertilizer and sunlight. |
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Timing The Potato Planting Potatoes can be planted very early in the season -- almost as soon as the frost is out of the ground and you're able to work the soil. In the North, you can plant your first crop of early maturing potatoes in April, usually six to eight weeks before the last frost. |
This Old House
Lynn Ocone |
Putting Down Roots How to add a tree to your yard---the right way. |
| National Gardening |
Making a Raised-Bed Garden Raised beds are popular because they are relatively easy to build, plant, weed, and maintain. |
This Old House
Lynn Ocone |
Say Good-bye to Weeds Think it's an overstatement to call it the war against weeds? Here's what you're up against... |
| National Gardening |
Planting Peas You can plant peas in a number of different fashions. Check to see which one suits your garden best. |
This Old House
Ryan Robbins |
Flowering Bulbs Follow these tips for highly varied, low-maintenance flowering bulbs you can plant in the fall and enjoy every spring. For additional information check out the web sites at the end of the article. |
Popular Mechanics
September 5, 2008
Joseph Truini |
9 Steps to Planting a Tree (and Saving a Buck) There's never been a better time to grab a shovel and get planting. Here's what to do if you're transplanting a sapling tree from a nursery, as opposed to starting with seeds, in nine easy steps. |
| National Gardening |
Preparing Soil for Greens When it's early in the season and nearly time to plant a host of greens, put in a little time with your garden soil to prevent weed problems. |
National Gardening
Robert Kourik |
Gardening Fact or Fallacy? Though plants, soils and weather conditions are always evolving, it seems as if some gardening practices become embedded like fossils. |
This Old House
February 2, 2001
Warren Schultz |
Getting the Best Deal on Plants Your guide to buying plants for the upcoming growing season... |
National Gardening
Bonnie Lee Appleton |
Fall Tree Care The attention young trees need in Fall |
National Gardening
Patt Kasa |
Shop for Trees & Shrubs Years of experience have helped me hone my detective skills and I've developed an almost fool-proof method of choosing the healthiest specimens for my landscape. You can become a savvy shopper, too, by following these same guidelines. |
National Gardening
Jack Ruttle |
Worm Food Do right by worms, and they'll do right by your garden. Worms are almost unbelievably good at making soil perfect for plants... |
| National Gardening |
Working with Onion Transplants Onion transplants may need special care when first planted in the ground. Here are some techniques to keep in mind. |
Popular Mechanics
April 2009 |
Silva Cell Tech Makes for Safer Sidewalks and Healither Trees The roots of trees can push sidewalks out of position |
| This Old House |
Winter Plant Tip: Buy Ugly Dormant bare-root plants make for a wise cold-weather purchase. |
| National Gardening |
Soil Prep for Alliums Onions will grow in practically any kind of soil, but one that's rich in decayed organic matter and humus and drains well is best. |
National Gardening
Alain Charest |
Trumpet Vine Native American plant makes good, especially in the North. Many garden plants are described as blooming all summer long, but trumpet vine is one of the few to actually live up to this description. Its only requirements are a sunny exposure and a good pruning in winter. |
