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Adding Vines to the Garden Design with Purpose

By: Feature Writer Lorraine Syratt

Vines add beauty to the garden design, give the gardener fast coverage for privacy and quickly envelop a bare fence. more...

Mix Your Own Potting Soil for Container Plants

By: Feature Writer Michael Vyskocil

Not all potting soils are created equal. There are many good reasons to have just the right ingredients for the health of your container plants. more...

How to Kill Crab Grass for a Beautiful Lawn

By: Candice Gillingwater

Every homeowner should take steps to kill crab grass in order to maintain a beautiful lawn. Herbicides are a simple way to kill the weed and prevent its recurrence. more...

How to Grow Trees and Shrubs from Seed.

By: David Haigh

Raising trees and shrubs from seed is an investment in the future which requires patience and often involves using special treatments to aid germination. more...

Creating Compost for Gardens and Yards

By: Feature Writer Michael Vyskocil

Yards and gardens produce bags of grass clippings, mounds of leaves and buckets of spent flower blooms. Turn this organic garbage into a usable product for the landscape. more...

How to Prepare a Garden for Winter

By: Bailey Shoemaker Richards

Properly winterizing a garden will prepare it for cold weather and snow, and lessen the amount of repairing and replanting that needs to be done in the spring. more...

10 Reasons to Use Mulch in the Landscape

By: Richard Freeland

Landscape plants are expensive, and gardeners will do most anything to assure their plants survive. Placing and maintaining mulch around plant roots is cheap insurance. more...

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