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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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Charlie Nardozzi |
Soil Common Sense Five simple home tests for basic soil problems, with proven remedies |
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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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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. |
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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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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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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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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
Michael MacCaskey |
Summer Bulbs Consider these for summer color |
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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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Naturalizing with Tulips Species tulips and hybrids of Tulipa fosteriana, T. greigii, and T. kaufmanniana are ideal candidates for naturalizing, as they spread rapidly by seed, stolons, and bulblets. |
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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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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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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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. |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
Minerals for Soil How to use rock-based fertilizers and amendments to increase the vitality of your soil |
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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. |
National Gardening
Robert E. Gough |
The Mighty Lingonberry Why, where, how to grow lingonberries. |
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Robert Smaus |
The Water Garden The serene beauty of a water garden offers opportunities for all kinds of reflections... |
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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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Naturalizing with Spring Bulbs Naturalized plantings are easy to create and easy to maintain. Though it takes a few years for the bulbs to multiply and make their full impact, in the meantime you can enjoy the sight of these harbingers of spring. |
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Kasha & David Furman |
Chinese Tree Peonies A guide for planting and cultivating Chinese tree peonies. |
National Gardening
Charlie Nardozzi |
Soil Testing If you've heard it once, you've heard it a hundred times: every garden should have its soil tested. |
National Gardening
June 2000
William Bryant Logan |
Helping Plants to Help Themselves Mycorrhizal fungi promote plant growth and reduce fertilizer dependence |
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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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Charlie Nardozzi |
Bulb Planting Know-how You can avoid many bulb problems simply by planting and fertilizing correctly... |
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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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Caring for Potatoes Caring for potatoes requires proper watering, cultivating and hilling. |
National Gardening
Warren Schultz |
Building Great Soil Soil is the most important factor in successful gardening. Here are tips on evaluating and improving your soil. |
National Gardening
Lance Walheim |
How to Buy and Plant Trees Improve the health and longevity of your trees... |
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Karen Dardick |
Reblooming Irises New varieties of these hardy perennials bloom two to five times a year... |
This Old House
Marjorie E. Gage |
Reining in Water Use Ground rules for creating a lush yard that doesn't squander the available supply of H2O. |
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. |
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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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Getting Started with Container Gardening Here's a look at some of the benefits of container gardening and choosing the right containers for your plants. |
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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. |
This Old House
Roger Cook |
Smart Sprinkling When the skies are cloudless and the days are hot and long, you can help your lawn and garden survive by watering wisely |
National Gardening
Jane von Trapp |
Entry Garden Make-Over A front entrance garden has to be functional and inviting, but where do you begin? |
National Gardening
Patt Kasa |
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. |
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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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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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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Skip Richter |
Turn Leaves into Gold These golden leaves can be turned into "black gold" for the garden. They make great soil-enriching compost or a protective mulch. |
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Carrie Chalmers |
Organic Matters Balance green with brown to maximize the benefits of soil amendments... |
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Lee Reich |
Blueberry Prescription A timeless favorite for the garden and the kitchen... |
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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. |
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... |
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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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Bulbs 101 In addition to their charm and beauty, the large and diverse group of plants known as bulbs have a lot going for them: They come in neat little packages, are just about 100 percent guaranteed to bloom the first year they are planted, and are surprisingly pest- and disease-free. |
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Container Gardening 101 Today's condominium owners and apartment dwellers do not have to forsake gardening. In fact, they can create their own garden hideaway in small spaces. |
