Improve Your Home and Garden
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Even if you have a large vegetable or flower garden, you may be able to start your own winter vegetables in a cold frame. You will save money, raise superior plants, get plants that are directly acclimatized to your locality, and you can produce a far greater variety of plants. A great advantage of starting [...]
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Very few gardeners in the United States, other than Martha Stewart use the English method of cloche gardening. However, it is interesting to study the process and perhaps adapt some aspects of this gardening technique in our own home gardens. A cloche looks like a tall glass water bottle with the bottom cut out. The [...]
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Almost every yard has a spot that could use a ground cover for one reason or another. It’s a good idea to look over a comprehensive list of ground covers to help select just the right one. Ground covers are a practical addition to the yard and an important asset to the overall landscape theme. [...]
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October is a great time to work in your garden as leaves are dropping and that first frost hits. Getting lawns and flower beds ready for winter will make for a beautiful garden in the spring. Here is a list of things to do in your backyard in October. OCTOBER GARDEN TIPS: October Lawn Care [...]
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You spent your budget on hiring a landscaper to design and build a backyard pond for koi. It’s been a lifelong dream to be able to enjoy these jewels of the backyard and hand feed them on a nice summer day. Yet weeks after seeing your fishpond become a reality, you notice fish are starting [...]
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The Hibiscus plant is an interest one. Not only will some varieties add great beauty to your garden, but some varieties also extra bang for the buck by offering other benefits as well. It is said that the flowers from the hibiscus offers certain health benefits. There are Islanders in the South Pacific that drink [...]
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Several years ago, as I anxiously awaited the running of the Belmont and the destiny of War Emblem, the Triple Crown contender, it was not the fastest horse that ultimately captured my imagination but the slow and sure lifestyle of the Eastern box turtle. I caught a glimpse of the Eastern Box female in my [...]
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Hardy chrysanthemums are among the most popular and important garden flowers because of the long, colorful show they put on in late summer and fall. By choosing carefully from the hundreds of varieties, the gardener can have mums blooming from mid-August to heavy frost. They can be grown in containers if fed and watered carefully. [...]
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When my oldest son, Andy, was about three years old, I remember offering him the choice of one or two cookies for a snack. Being the clever and precocious child that he was, he said he wanted three cookies. I told him that wasn’t an option. As a grown man now–a healthy, slim adult, gratefully–he [...]
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September is a great time to work in your garden. Getting lawns and flower beds ready for winter will make for a beautiful garden in the spring. And the weather is usually cooperative as well. Here is a list of things to do in your backyard in September. Lawn Finish planting or reseeding lawns [...]
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Your home is your domain, and you want to be able to relax in and around your house. The weather is nice and you decide to barbecue or have coffee on the patio, only to find you are being eaten alive by mosquitos. Mosquitos are most active in the early evening and early morning. Mosquitos [...]
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Many people who have brought their first blooming orchid home from the garden shop secretly nurse a dream of having their very own greenhouse someday. They envision a greenhouse filled to the brim with beautiful, thriving orchids that provide countless hours of happiness on cold winter days. Greenhouses come in all sizes, shapes, elaborate and [...]
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Fish Pond with water plants and decking Here are some tips for caring for your pond now that it’s summer… Be mindful of how and what you are feeding your fish. We’ve had a lot of customers with green water lately. Many of their problems can be traced to the type of food they’re using [...]
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“In order for sustainability to work, it has to work for everyone.” In the wake of corporate greed and unethical business practice, these words from green building visionary Terry Black are a much-needed breath of fresh air. Black’s company Green Way Supply, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, has been building sustainable homes for three years, but the company [...]
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Its late summer and your container garden is not looking very good. The summer heat has taken its toll and some of the plants have stopped flowering. You could pull all of the plants out and replant the entire flower pot or you can rejuvenate the container garden using only a few new plants and leaving [...]
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But before you go racing to the phone to call the lawyer on TV, know these facts! Like humans, animals can be victims of direct asbestos exposure or second-hand exposure when an individual who works around asbestos brings the toxic dust into their home on their clothes. In the 1970’s, a connection was found between [...]
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In this bumpy economy, many people have turned to home remodeling and improvements rather than moving. Combining the practicality of a greenhouse and the charm of a sunroom, home conservatories are becoming a popular choice for homeowners seeking to update and improve their living space. History of Conservatories Conservatories were born when northern European explorers [...]
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Lawn To prevent grub damage in your lawn, apply insecticides containing halofenozide or imidacloprid. Or, wait until August to apply curative controls if there is a problem. Do not try to control crabgrass in your lawn after mid-July with post-emergence herbicide. It is often too large to control well. Live with it until it dies [...]
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Creating a garden that attracts birds is a relatively simple task. It consists of supplying them with three basic elements: food, cover, and water. Most homeowners start with, and sometimes end with, putting out a bird feeder with cheap bird seed. Then they wonder why only a few species of birds show up, why the [...]
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