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Vegetable Garden Rehab! - - Bob Alexander
My back hurts, my arms ache and I'm sunburned. With the soil warming up to temperatures favorable to seed sprouting, the farmer in all of us is ready to take hoe in hand and test the hortacultural waters. I'm planting a vegetable garden this year and it's hard work. Planting and weeding a... Submitted 2 years 266 days ago.

Happiness: A Gardener's Point of View - - Nenita Wells
The gardener has often wondered, What trees to plant in his garden bared. He pondered awhile and looked around. The answer, he finally found. You see, the day before last. A storm has visited the gardener's lot. Roaring wind and heavy rain, Wreaked havoc upon the plain. ... Submitted 2 years 288 days ago.

African Daisy – Excellent Bedding Plants For An Arid Climate Garden - - Jonathan Ya'akobi
African daisy is the name commonly used to describe a group of different bedding plants. All come from South Africa, sport a mass of daisy-like flowers (unsurprisingly!), and require similar conditions to grow successfully. Daisy flowers, typical of the Asteraceae botanical family, create a clear... Submitted 3 years 270 days ago.

Your Backyard Garden Needs Compost! - - Bob Alexander
It is winter in most parts of the country and it’s time to plan for your summer garden. The first step is to make natural mulch, called compost. It’s a little extra work to make it, rather than buying an inferior product ant the garden store. Besides giving you a distraction from the... Submitted 31 days 20 hours ago.

Ponds & Waterfalls - Layout & Excavation - - Doug Hoover
First of all: know what you want. If you need some ideas, visit the library or your local book store and browse through landscape books, garden and pond magazines. You can also search the web and read and study as much as possible. Layout is the most important phase of the entire project. I have... Submitted 1 year 11 days ago.

Autumn Notes - - Terri Atwell
I was raking leaves this afternoon and even though it is mid-November I realized that there were quite a few flowers still blooming. I cut the last two roses from the bush and picked some mums and brought them inside. I have alyssum, petunias, sedum and a huge-flowered sunflower remaining... Submitted 1 year 86 days ago.

No Green Thumb? Try Growing Window Sill Herbs! - - Bob Alexander
I have discovered that having a window sill herb garden is a wonderful way to begin my conversations on a cold winter's morning. A "Good morning Mr. Basil!" or a "How is everyone this morning?" makes both you and the plants feel alive. We old people hate to see our gardens wither and die in the... Submitted 1 year 88 days ago.

Three Steps in Learning to Like Turnip Greens! - - Bob Alexander
Turnip greens always remind me of my growing up days, when the pot in mom's kitchen was boiling and the smell of burnt rubber permeated the walls of the house. We kids would run outside to breathe cool fresh air and clear our sinuses. I hated turnip greens! Today though, my tastes have matured... Submitted 1 year 163 days ago.

Red Wigglers Are Such Worms! - - Bob Alexander
Red wiggler worms serve triple purposes. They produce great compost, make excellent fishing bait for bluegills and shellcrackers they make great pets. Most people think cats are aloof and wont come to you when called, but theyre down right gregarious compared to the worm. But you have to love... Submitted 1 year 217 days ago.

A Stroll in My Garden© - - Arlene Wright-Correll
The extremely hot weather here at Home Farm in Munfordville , KY this June does not do much for the garden except encourage the weeds to flourish. However, when I keep watering we get beautiful rewards such as I found today when I took a stroll through some of my gardens. The containers of lilies... Submitted 1 year 233 days ago.

Tips On Buying A String Strimmer! - - Bob Alexander
After my garden tiller broke down last year, I found the easiest way to keep weeds out of my tomatoes was to cut them down with a motor powered string trimmer. It worked and I only lost three plants by decapitation the whole summer! By nature I'm a lazy man and I really didn't want to have to... Submitted 1 year 260 days ago.

How To Plant An Onion! - - Bob Alexander
I dream of onions! A day without onions is like a day without sunshine. I may have messed up on the metaphor, but a great portion of our daily intake of food has some form of this tasty bulb or stalk hidden within its lists of ingredients; especially Mexican food. In the south the last gasps of... Submitted 1 year 338 days ago.

How and When to Prune Your Trees, Shrubs and Bushes - - Arlene Wright-Correll
I don't know about you, but our trees always seem to need trimming. The Bradford Pears along the drive are now about 13 years old and the bottom limbs are wide and treacherous for wide delivery trucks, the weeping cherry trees I planted in the wrong place 10 years ago constantly need pruning and... Submitted 1 year 351 days ago.

Dymondia margaretae – An excellent Ground Cover Plant for a Mediterranean Climate Garden - - Jonathan Ya'akobi
A decent ground cover plant is always worth considering. Dymondia margaretae is especially suited to gardens in Mediterranean and other dry climate regions, by virtue of its drought hardiness and ease of maintenance. In fact once established, it is one of those rare creatures - a plant requiring... Submitted 2 years 12 days ago.

America Loves Seed Catalogs! - - Bob Alexander
Seed catalogs that began arriving just after Christmas, tells me that the season is about to change. Marvelous scenes of warmer and sunnier days fill the pages of these vegetable wish books that come in the mail. Gardeners all over America await their arrival with an expectancy that borders... Submitted 2 years 13 days ago.

Nandina domestica and Duranta erecta – A Fabulous combination for a Mediterranean Garden - - Jonathan Ya'akobi
Although not Mediterranean in origin, both Nandina, or Heavenly Bamboo, and Duranta are commonly planted in Mediterranean climate gardens. Their cultural requirements, though not identical, are similar enough that they can be grown in many locations. Nandina is hardy to any cold that a... Submitted 2 years 47 days ago.

Water Conserving Gardening – The Golden Rule for Saving Water in the Garden - - Jonathan Ya'akobi
The water crisis that is hitting so many parts of the world, from Australia to the Middle East, is threatening to put a halt to gardening in dry climates. Water conserving gardening is a complicated process involving questions of design, professional irrigation, as well as a good store of... Submitted 2 years 54 days ago.

Are Your Garden Bugs Bugging You? - - David Soper
Fall is the time to refocus attention on the insect population living in your garden. Most of us can recognize the major villains, i.e., slugs, Japanese beetles, earwigs and the like. However, several entomologists with whom I talked recommend buying an illustrated guide to insects. They really... Submitted 2 years 54 days ago.

Growing Thyme - Carol Miller
Thyme has a long history as both a kitchen and decorative plant. It can be grown in a balcony box, in the garden, or in a pot on the kitchen windowsill. Thyme--the health-giving herb In ancient times, Thyme was known as a health and life-giving herb. It was used medicinally for such widely... Submitted 2 years 152 days ago.

How To Make Compost Cheaply! - - Bob Alexander
Knowing how to make compost cheaply is a crucial element in the success of any horticultural adventure. For many, the thought of actually constructing or even buying a compost bin is a daunting challenge. For those of us who know little about gardening, but have a small plot of ground where... Submitted 2 years 182 days ago.

Ingenuity at Work - Nancy Daniels
I am married to a wonderful man who can solve mechanical, electrical and gadget problems easily. Knowing exactly what is needed to fix this or that, clean the tape residue off a jar, mend plastic pieces that are broken, weld, solder, or glue, this man understands solvents as well as infinity.... Submitted 2 years 187 days ago.

My Plants and I Had Coffee Together - Ronyae
Who would have ever imagined giving houseplants coffee? I'm sure anyone short of being a genius wouldn't. A genius probably wouldn't have imagined it either. And although my friend is very short of being a genius, she was one the moment she showed me that sprinkling coffee grinds in a houseplant... Submitted 2 years 244 days ago.

Spring Garden Care:Pruning Landscape and Fruit Trees in Mediterranean Climate Home Gardens - - Jonathan Ya'akobi
Deciduous trees should be pruned in their dormant season, which in Mediterranean and similar mild winter climates, means towards the end of winter. They should not be pruned in the spring as pruning causes the sap that is rising in the plant to "bleed" thereby depleting the tree of valuable... Submitted 2 years 306 days ago.

Home Garden Care in the Spring: Aphid Control Guidelines for the Home Gardener - - Jonathan Ya'akobi
Spring is the season when a host of pest organisms come to life and feed massively on our garden plants. Foremost amongst them are species of tiny flying insects, known commonly as aphids, which while not generally fatal, cause a lot of visual damage to a wide range of plants. The initial... Submitted 2 years 313 days ago.

Organic Vegetable Gardening: Deep Beds and Double Digging - John Shelton
Deep Bed Gardening The How and Why for Increased Yields in Your Organic Garden! I have always had a limited amount of space in which to garden... well except for when I summered at my grandparents farm in Lone Hickory, North Carolina; but I was eight years old then. There was plenty of space... Submitted 2 years 316 days ago.