Feed your Flowers

Fertilizing your flowers is all about the food, much like yourself a well balanced fertilizer can make the difference in your sprouting flower garden this year.
 
Depending on how in depth you want to get, it is not all that necessary to go out and have your soil sampled and analyzed. I usually stick with a [...]

Your garden has been waiting…

Spring brings with it that time of year for home improvements, which can sometimes follow a much neglected winter. Indoors and out there is much to do, and on those warming summer days there is no better way to earn the relaxing summer days than enduring the spring cleaning your garden needs.
 
It is coming upon [...]

Question of the Week

How-To Get Rid of Poison Ivy Near Vegetables
 
Howard emailed me what would appear to be a very straight forward question: “What can I use to eliminate poison ivy near a vegetable garden?”. We all know that getting rid of poison ivy is never an easy task. Many weed killers do a decent job of eradicating [...]

Try Magazines for Good Ideas

If you’re struggling with trying to find the right decor for your garden you should check the wealth of great ideas, information and more that are available in today’s gardening magazines.  Chocked full of reviews, news, editorials and sample layouts they can provide a fast and affordable solution to your garden decor woes.  With all [...]

Pre-Season Treats

Pre-Season Hellebore 
The genus is native to much of Europe, from western Great Britain, Spain and Portugal, eastward across the Mediterranean region and central Europe into Romania and Ukraine, and along the north coast of Turkey into the Caucasus. The greatest concentration of species occurs in the Balkans. One atypical species (H. thibetanus) comes from western [...]

More Gardening Ideas

Problem #1:  Seeds have to be moist enough to germinate, dry enough   that the fungi don’t move in, in soil damp enough to keep them going, but with enough air spaces that oxygen can get to the seeds and the roots.
 
General solution: a well-drained potting soil, and plastic pots with good drainage holes.  Keep soil about as moist [...]

Here are some of the reasons that roses don’t bloom.

 
1. The rose plant is not getting enough sun. Roses need at least 6 hours of direct sun a day to perform well.
  2. The rose needs more water. Roses like at least an inch of water per week during the growing season.
  3. The plant has been given too much fertilizer, especially [...]

Floral Arrangements

Your neighborhood supermarket is chocked full of flowering blossoms and bulbs this season, and I’m a big fan of putting them in all types of uplifting seasonal displays.  They aren’t just easy to find and gorgeous; they’re inexpensive, too, and are arrangeable in lots of unique displays.  Stop by your neighborhood supermarket’s flower department and [...]

Gardening Tips!

A list of inexpensive garden decorations.

Johnny Jump Ups planted in small galvanized buckets looks so charming!
Plant half whiskey barrels tightly with strawberry plants.
Scarecrows are not only useful, they’re decorative.
Check your nearest dollar store for really cute and cheap garden decorations! They also have seeds sometimes 10 packets for $1.00.
Make a rustic trellis by nailing or [...]

Solar Powered Lighting

I always wanted to install lighting along my pathways and outside the hedges in my front yard.  The trouble was wiring all this stuff up so it’s manageable from a switch in the house.  Plus, I didn’t want to have all of them running at the same time since it can be so expensive in [...]

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