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Drip Irrigation A Simple But Essential Maintenance Task Before the Onset of the Irrigation Season - - Jonathan Ya'akobi
The life span of dripper lines is usually up to 10-15 years, as mineral deposits in the water eventually make the line inoperable. However, neglecting to wash out the system periodically will significantly reduce their operable life span. I've seen drippers block up after 3 or 4 years when this... Submitted 2 years 334 days ago.

A Gardening Experience - The planting of the Donald Wyman Lilac Shrubs As A Privacy Boarder - - Bob & Gail Hinz
Spring was in the air today here in Maine - and it's only March 7 th ! We can only hope this trend continues and spring will make it's arrival early. This week we'll be talking about lilacs. We had a learning experience with lilacs last year when Bob and I decided to use lilacs as a privacy wall... Submitted 2 years 340 days ago.

Garden Treats begin with Heirloom Seeds - - Walter Rhett
Saturday is the day Southern Perlo shares the old ways, preserving the best of the past while looking to the future. Here, winter is past, spring in South Carolina is near. Its feel is in the air, announced in the changing quality of light. The music this morning is the shouting joy of the... Submitted 2 years 340 days ago.

Landscape Garden Design: Using Santolina in a Mediterranean Style Garden - - Jonathan Ya'akobi
Santolina as a Mediterranean native, is virtually a "must" plant for a dry, Mediterranean-style garden. It is a sub-shrub or woody perennial, growing to about 70cm (2ft) in height and a meter (1ft) in width. The best-known species is Santolina chamaecyparissus, or Lavender Cotton, with its grey... Submitted 2 years 341 days ago.

Garden Power Tools How to Use Petrol Strimmers Safely and Ergonomically - - Jonathan Ya'akobi
Unless you have a very small backyard with a tiny lawn, a petrol strimmer is infinitely more efficient and even cost-effective in the end than an electric garden tool. For maintaining the edges on a large lawn, whacking the tough weeds around the yard, or for heavy-duty tasks in general, an... Submitted 2 years 355 days ago.

Gladiolus Flower Bulbs - - Kathy Case
In the genus gladiolus there is about two hundred and fifty species. They are in the Iridaceae or iris family. The majority of gladioli are native to southern Africa. Most gladiolas are hybrids. The flower stems of gladiolus can have at least seventeen flower blooms, all facing the same... Submitted 3 years 33 days ago.

Planting Roses in a Mild Winter Climate: The Benefit of Planting Roses Bare-Root - - Jonathan Ya'akobi
Roses, if they are grown in containers, can be planted at any time in a mild winter climate. Planting in the winter however, allows the gardener to choose and plant bare-root specimens. The principle benefit being that one can see and examine the roots, something that cannot be done with pot... Submitted 3 years 39 days ago.

Helping Your Garden Birds Through the Winter - - Arlene Wright-Correll
In many parts of our nation winter has all ready set in. In our part of the country in zone 6 I think it finally has arrived on the very calendar day marked for winter arrival. In our part of Kentucky I can never figure out whether we live in the South Central part or the South West part of the... Submitted 3 years 47 days ago.

How to Grow Holly - - Arlene Wright-Correll
Tis the season to be jolly and it tis the season I seem to notice holly even though it is around me all year long. I think the reason I do not notice it is because it usually is part of many gardeners or home owners landscape that has so many other plants, shrubs and flowers blooming at other... Submitted 3 years 47 days ago.

Birdhouses and Bird Baths Attract Birds to Your Garden - - Arlene Wright-Correll
We all know the benefits of birds in our gardens and how they eat the bad bugs, plus we also know that they eat some of our berries and I personally know that they help to clean out the plums in my plum trees that are now almost 2 stories high and I don't go up on ladders any longer in my old age... Submitted 3 years 57 days ago.

Ground Cover Plants for Replacing Lawns in Dry Mediterranean Climate Gardens - - Jonathan Ya'akobi
In temperate-Mediterranean climates, where annual rainfall reaches about 450mm, (18in) lawns need at least 700mm of additional irrigation through the hot, dry summer. That is, 700 liters per square meter per year. In drier climates, where annual precipitation does not exceed 250mm, (10in) this... Submitted 3 years 60 days ago.

How to Grow Camellias - - Arlene Wright-Correll
I only had seen Camellias in the old black and white movie when I was a kid. You know the one I mean with the dying Greta Garbo and the handsome Robert Taylor. It was her favorite flower. So in 1987 I was surprised to see that Camellias came in colors, other than white, when I moved into a... Submitted 3 years 63 days ago.

How to Plant a Halloween Herb Garden - - Arlene Wright-Correll
Though Halloween is past as is Thanksgiving and Christmas is looming large on the horizon I got to think about herb gardens I have seen in my travels. Right now it is too cold in my area of Zone 6 to deal with any garden, no less an herb garden. However, memories of ones I have seen or... Submitted 3 years 63 days ago.

Artificial Grass is not an Alternative to a Real Lawn - - Jonathan Ya'akobi
Installing artificial grass is an option that many homeowners are considering today, given the difficulties involved in successful lawn maintenance. Nowhere is this trend more prominent than in Mediterranean and other dry climates, because of the excessive water use that growing a lawn involves.... Submitted 3 years 67 days ago.

The Many Benefits of Pumpkins - - Arlene Wright-Correll
Now that Thanksgiving is over with and Christmas is looming on the horizon we start to think about our Christmas baking. Not only for our big family meals, but for those wonderful little cookies and tea breads we distribute to our friends and neighbors. Many organic gardeners use a lot of... Submitted 3 years 74 days ago.

How to Grow a Cherimoya Tree - - Arlene Wright-Correll
When I lived in Brisbane , Australia , one of the fruit crops of Queensland was the Cherimoya or often referred to as a Custard Apple. Since I happen to personally like hard apples, this fruit did not really appeal to me because it is creamy and soft, but it did had an extremely tropical... Submitted 3 years 86 days ago.

How to Grow Carambola or Star Fruit Trees - - Arlene Wright-Correll
This deciduous tree is a native of Ceylon and the Moluccas and it grown commercially in the warm areas of Florida and California . However it can be grown in the gardens of zones 8 to 11. If you live in zones 8 and 9 you may need to provide it with some shelter in the winter. It is a medium... Submitted 3 years 86 days ago.

How to Grow an Avocado Tree - - Arlene Wright-Correll
Avocados were not part of our daily diet in Brooklyn , N.Y. when I was a kid. However, when I grew up and started to travel I enjoyed eating these lovely fruits and occasionally had them in our daily diet so the kids could try to grow an avocado tree from the pit as a school project. Avocados... Submitted 3 years 86 days ago.

How to Grow Kiwi Fruit - - Arlene Wright-Correll
Our family enjoys kiwi fruit either in salads or just to eat all by itself so in 1994 we decided to plant some at our Bed & Breakfast in Tennessee . We had a cleared space and a long, wide raised planter with trellises built into it thus making it an ideal place for kiwi growing. Our grandson... Submitted 3 years 86 days ago.

Why A Garden Mulch Is Better Than A Pre-Emergent Weed Killer For Preventing Winter Weeds - - Jonathan Ya'akobi
As the winter in Mediterranean climates is also the rainy season, weeds can germinate and cover wider areas so rampantly, that the gardener is usually interested in preventing weeds or at least keeping them down before they spread, develop, and really start to cause problems. In large-scale... Submitted 3 years 88 days ago.

Did You Know Yucca is an Herb? - - Arlene Wright-Correll
Our late son, Fred, happened to like the look of the Yucca plant and especially when the plant blooms so he planted two of them at Home Farm and now that it has been 8 years since Fred unexpectedly passed away the Yucca plants are still here and have replicated themselves until we now have about... Submitted 3 years 98 days ago.

Plant Some Lambs Ear to Attract Hummingbirds - - Arlene Wright-Correll
I love the look of Lambs Ear and this hardy perennial does real well in hot dry summers which we seem to be getting more of here is zone 6 as evidenced by 2007 and 2008 seasons which are attributed to global warming. Besides having masses of velvety textured leaves that look and stay fresh... Submitted 3 years 98 days ago.

You Better Know Your Chestnuts - - Arlene Wright-Correll
When I was a kid growing up in Brooklyn , N.Y. my parents looked forward to the late fall and early winter when the hot Chestnut peddler came around with his two wheeled push cart that had some way to keep the chestnuts hot. I think it was a charcoal brazier, but whatever he used also created... Submitted 3 years 98 days ago.

How to Keep the Good Bugs in Your Garden - - Arlene Wright-Correll
All of us who garden and who are eco-conscious try to figure out ways to eliminate the "bad" bugs in our gardens. Those slugs and bugs who not only eat up our flowers and veggies, but just give us the "creepy crawlers" when we see them! Gone are the days of DDT and many other chemicals we used... Submitted 3 years 104 days ago.

Early Fall Tree Care - - Arlene Wright-Correll
The mornings are darker when I awake and the evening comes earlier as I notice the shortening of the days and start to think about fall gardening care and the last of the summer heat has allowed me to get out into the garden to do the much needed weeding in my Mediterranean herb beds. However... Submitted 3 years 105 days ago.