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Improving the View From the Curb An attractive front yard improves the look of your home and makes visitors feel welcome... |
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Fall Groundwork "This is prime time to prep your yard for the next growing season," says our landscape contractor. |
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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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Mulching Trees and Shrubs Why mulch? Because it helps minimize weeds, conserve moisture, moderate soil temperature, and make your yard look good. |
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Rain Makers Choosing and using lawn and garden sprinklers. |
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Simple Lawn Care Routine Streamline your lawn-care routine for better turf with less work |
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Planning a Low-Maintenance Landscape Landscapes that require minimum time and money to maintain require thoughtful planning and installation. So invest early in planning and structures, and you'll pay (and work) less later. |
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Gardening Fact or Fallacy? Though plants, soils and weather conditions are always evolving, it seems as if some gardening practices become embedded like fossils. |
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Succulents: Ideal Plants for Summer Succulents thrive where most plants would shrivel. Here's how their ability to go days without water makes them ideal garden staples for the sweltering days of summer. |
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Grass to Go Want a fantastic lawn? Sod it. Here's what you need to know to get the job done right. |
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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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Green Grounds Sustainable landscaping can save commercial properties money and help the environment. |
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Meadows Come to Town Weary of the lawn routine? Wildscapes are an intriguing alternative |
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A Lawn in a Day It's lawn-planting time. Should you lay sod or sow seed? Sod has the edge |
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Green Acres How to break your lawn's addition to synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides. |
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Splendor in the Grass With showy plumes and leaves that rustle and sway, ornamental grasses can add surprising texture to your yard. Also, here is a step by step guide to split an overgrown grass plant. |
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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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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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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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Improving Clay Soil If your garden has heavy clay soil, you know what a challenge it can pose to plants, not to mention gardeners. Heavy clay drains slowly, meaning it stays saturated longer after rain or irrigation. |
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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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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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Why Porous Pavement Is Right for Your Yard Now Porous pavement allows rainwater to seep beneath the surface, into a gravelly, open-graded aggregate, where it's distributed to the soil for plants to drink. |
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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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The Smartest Irrigation Controller You Can Buy The Eve smart controller aims to make irrigation both easier and smarter, and my sprinklers could use a boost of both. |
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Cultivating the Garden A little work now will save you tons of time and trouble later in the season. |
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Putting Down Roots How to add a tree to your yard---the right way. |
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Composting Q and A Starting a Compost Pile... Critters in Compost...Foul-Smelling Compost Pile... Adding Compost to a Perennial Garden... Speeding Decomposition... Planting Directly in Compost... Compost Quantity...Compost vs. Mulch... Materials to Compost... Sawdust in Compost Pile... |
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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. |
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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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Summer Bulbs Consider these for summer color |
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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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Going For The Green How to replace your old lawn with luscious sod. |
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5 Steps to Grow & Build a Perfect Lawn -- With Free Time to Spare Each spring, millions of homeowners spend too much of their cherished weekends trying to maintain a lush, green lawn. But sun and rain also bring lawn-choking weeds and voracious bugs. Here are five tips to keep you lawn healthy. |
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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. |
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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. |
This Old House
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Curbside Gardening Between the Sidewalk and Street Gardeners are planting hellstrips in city neighborhoods from Boston to the Twin Cities, swapping grass for borders packed with low-maintenance perennials, shrubs, and small trees. |
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Planting in Pots Container gardens are a movable feast for the senses. Here's how to assemble and care for knockout combinations |
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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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Preventing Rose Diseases It's no surprise that roses are among the most popular ornamental garden plants: they're beautiful, fragrant, and easy to grow in most climates. |
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Soil Common Sense Five simple home tests for basic soil problems, with proven remedies |
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Caring for Potatoes Caring for potatoes requires proper watering, cultivating and hilling. |
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Planting Bearded Iris Here are a few things you can do to get your bearded iris off to a good start. |
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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. |
