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Making a Water Garden Bring an exotic touch to your patio, deck, or yard by making a small water garden in a tub. |
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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. |
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Trickle Down Theory A quick guide to building a stone-lined, fit-anywhere, good-looking backyard pond. |
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Making a Water Garden in a Tub To the uninitiated, water gardens seem complicated, expensive, and fussy. But many of the principles of gardening in water are the same as those for gardening in soil. If you can grow a tomato, you can grow a water lily. |
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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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Soil Common Sense Five simple home tests for basic soil problems, with proven remedies |
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How to Build and Install Raised Garden Beds These controlled experiments in plant parenthood are so easy, in fact, that they're also well-suited to novices picking up a shovel for the first time. |
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Making a Raised-Bed Garden Raised beds are popular because they are relatively easy to build, plant, weed, and maintain. |
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Installing A Sump Pump If you have water problems in your basement, the simplest solution may be to install a sump pump. |
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Planting Peas You can plant peas in a number of different fashions. Check to see which one suits your garden best. |
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Build Your Own Wildlife Sanctuary A few easy steps can turn your backyard into a garden of earthly delights |
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Perfect Paths Stone, brick, gravel and even sawdust can turn a muddy trail into an inviting walkway. |
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Install a new lawn If your lawn suffers from acute soil compaction, rampant weed problems, heavy thatch or organic matter deficiencies, you may want to remove the existing weeds and grass and start anew. |
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April 2000
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On Goldfish Pond These colorful fish are an easy-to-care-for addition to any water garden |
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Establishing a Wildflower Meadow A how-to guide for planting a wildflower meadow. |
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Building Great Soil Soil is the most important factor in successful gardening. Here are tips on evaluating and improving your soil. |
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Getting Gardens Ready for Winter While gardeners in warmer climes (USDA zones 8 to 10) relish the cool air because it signals fall planting time, most gardeners across the country know it's time to wrap up the garden. |
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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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Planting and Care of Annual Flowers When it comes to cut flowers, it's hard to beat annuals for their sheer production and ease of growing. |
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Follow the Weekend Brick Road Building a great walk -- one brick at a time. |
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Plugging and Sprigging a Lawn A how-to guide for planting warm-season grasses. |
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Fall Garden Cleanup Q and A Here are some questions we've received about fall cleanup in the garden, along with the answers given by our regional horticulture staff. |
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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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Waterworks Installing an in-ground sprinkler system is a big job with a big payoff. |
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Planning a Vegetable Garden How to design and build a vegetable garden that really works |
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Summer Bulbs Consider these for summer color |
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Sunny Sedum Sedums, also called stonecrop, are versatile plants. They grow well in perennial borders, containers, and rock gardens. Their thick, fleshy leaves and colorful blossoms that makes them sought-after additions to any garden. And they are among the easiest of plants to propagate. |
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Meadows Come to Town Weary of the lawn routine? Wildscapes are an intriguing alternative |
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Backyard from Scratch 7 features that will transform a plain stretch of lawn into a lush landscape you'll really use and enjoy |
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May 2003
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Going For The Green How to replace your old lawn with luscious sod. |
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Improve Soil Fertility with Compost A little soil common sense will go a long way to helping you understand how to care for your garden. All soils are not the same; they differ in many ways, including texture, fertility, and pH. |
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Going to Pots Use containers to create a glorious garden anywhere |
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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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Growing Giant Tomatoes All about growing really humongous plants and tomatoes |
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Putting the Garden to Bed The short warm days and crisp nights of autumn trigger leaf color changes, and remind me it's time to clean up the garden. |
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June 2000
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Tomatoes in a Can Growing full-size tomatoes in containers saves space and protects plants from disease |
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Planting Grapes The fall before you plant, mark the location for your vines. Get rid of all weeds, especially perennial ones, as your vines can easily survive 30 years or more in the same location. |
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Hold the Dirt A retaining wall can hold back a hillside and turn steep slopes into living space --- if you pay attention to the basics. |
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Reining in Water Use Ground rules for creating a lush yard that doesn't squander the available supply of H2O. |
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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. |
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Green Pastures Not all lawns that are in bad shape need to be replaced. A well-executed restoration plan can bring all but the worst turf back to life. |
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Fall Groundwork "This is prime time to prep your yard for the next growing season," says our landscape contractor. |
| National Gardening |
Growing Onions As with most vegetables, you can start onions from seed in the garden. But many onions have relatively long growing seasons and onion seeds don't germinate quickly, so it's often better to start the crop another way. You can set out transplants, or you can plant "sets" (half-grown onions). |
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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. |
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Soil Fertility 101 Just as a good foundation is necessary to support a building, good soil is necessary to build a successful garden. All soil is not alike. It differs in texture, fertility, and balance. |
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Ten Steps to Giant Tomatoes If you want to join the ranks of supergrowers in your area, follow these 10 steps. |
