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How to Add Charm to Your Garden© - - Arlene Wright-Correll
Should you wish to have a manicured, pristine garden and landscaping around your home then stop reading right now! This article is for those who want to add charm, personality, eclectic, artistic and personal touches to their organic gardens. As an artist I love those things that one can mix into... Submitted 3 years 149 days ago.

Welcoming Autumn with Garden Goodies© - - Arlene Wright-Correll
As the days cool off and the evenings start to get even cooler the relief from this summer's heat is welcomed. Here and there we start to see some trees in our zone 6 get a leaf or two or more turn. Our tomatoes are finished and we have cleaned out some of the big planters. Our window boxes are... Submitted 3 years 152 days ago.

A Smart Gardener Starts Small© - - Arlene Wright-Correll
With the cost of produce escalating higher and higher and healthy cooking and eating awareness setting into the main stream of our lives, more and more people are considering starting their own organic vegetable gardens. There is no need to create a large garden or to even consider a large... Submitted 3 years 152 days ago.

How to Know What Tree to Plant© - - Arlene Wright-Correll
At the end of every Louis L'Amour novel he asked his readers to plant one tree a year. His premise was that it only takes about 30 minutes to cut down a tree and it takes years for one to grow. He realized that millions of trees are cut each year and many are not being replaced. Today, the... Submitted 3 years 153 days ago.

Lets Bring Back the Victory Garden© - - Arlene Wright-Correll
Lets bring back victory gardens. As our government brings us again towards incredible inflation, as we again fight a war that has not been a real war, in the sense of patriotism, since Pearl Harbor and as gas prices drive Americans budget into the ground on all quarters, I say again, "Lets bring... Submitted 3 years 153 days ago.

Lawn Irrigation – How Much And How Often Do You Need To Water? - - Jonathan Ya'akobi
There are many factors contributing to the success or otherwise of a lawn. A main cause leading to failure is a compacted soil, which lacks oxygen in the root zone, and does not allow for the adequate infiltration of water. Other vital factors include a correct mowing regime, a suitable feeding... Submitted 3 years 158 days ago.

Make Your Own Spring Garden Calendar© - - Arlene Wright-Correll
As a pilot would not take off without a check list neither should a garden start without a calendar check list. In the early spring once the April showers go then rake up your lawn and get it ready for re-seeding any brown patches or areas that need replacement. Rake out any stray twigs or... Submitted 3 years 159 days ago.

Zeroscaping or Xeriscaping Landscaping© - - Arlene Wright-Correll
Prior to retiring, for many years I had to go out to the western states for my business and especially to Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada. As these states and their cities started to grow and tract housing and developments were shooting up all over the place, the landscaping needs of these... Submitted 3 years 159 days ago.

How to Grow Garlic for Home or Profit© - - Arlene Wright-Correll
The only time I ever grew garlic nothing happened. The following year I was interviewing a local artist for my newspaper column and he and his wife grew giant cloves of garlic that they sold to the locals in their area. After I wrote the article about him I decided to do some research to find out... Submitted 3 years 159 days ago.

How to Build a Rock Garden© - - Arlene Wright-Correll
When you want to fill up a bad space in your garden or have a water conservancy problem or are never home to maintain a garden, but still want color, consider building a rock garden. One time we had a real rocky slope in a very shady wooded area at our Bed and Breakfast in Tennessee which sloped... Submitted 3 years 159 days ago.

Kids Love to Grow Peanuts© - - Arlene Wright-Correll
I know peanuts are very cheap to buy so why bother growing them? Well if you have a kid or two and want to teach them gardening and happen to live in a zone that peanuts grow, then that is your answer. Kids really are inquisitive and love to learn things. Those times spent with them on this type... Submitted 3 years 159 days ago.

Looking For Unusual Herbs? © - - Arlene Wright-Correll
I have a dear friend from South America who turned me on to things to do with my French Marigolds which are considered an herb in South America. She once served me a drink with the little yellow flowers in it and it was delicious and she cooks many dishes with the leaves which give them a... Submitted 3 years 159 days ago.

Meet The Walter Family and Their Giant Vegetables. © - - Arlene Wright-Correll
All photos courtesy of Ernie Martin. I get a lot of gardening email and in March of 2008 I received about 7 emails complete with incredible photos from a fellow in Cresco, Iowa named Ernie Martin. Some of the email photos showed 23 inch tomatoes and his mom and dad cutting giant and I do... Submitted 3 years 160 days ago.

Bats in Your Garden© - - Arlene Wright-Correll
I was a kid in Brooklyn who was raised up on Saturday afternoon movies that had an uncommon amount of movies which featured some of the famous actors and actresses of those days dealing with zombies, werewolves and vampires. Vampires meant bats and bats to me and the rest of the tenement kids... Submitted 3 years 160 days ago.

Biodiversity is Essential for a Healthy Garden© - - Arlene Wright-Correll
In Mother Nature's scheme of things the good and bad balance and all things basically take care of itself until the human hand is put into the cycle. We Americans are so beleaguered with cleanliness and fighting dirt and grime that we take it over into our gardens and lawns. The minute a weed or... Submitted 3 years 160 days ago.

Creeping Phlox the Great Ground Cover© - - Arlene Wright-Correll
Our neighbor up the road had a 10 foot by 20 foot bare slope that went from the end of his lawn down to the drainage culvert the town had put in at the end of the highway. He had this on one side of his drive way and about 4 seasons ago I saw he had planted about 12 or 16 light lavender plants... Submitted 3 years 160 days ago.

How to Attract Purple Martins to Your Garden© - - Arlene Wright-Correll
I live in an area of Kentucky that has a large and expanding Amish population and as I travel around I see more and more purple martin birdhouses in their yards and gardens. Mostly these are made from gourds painted white and now many of them are man-made white plastic ones resembling gourds. The... Submitted 3 years 160 days ago.

Growing Chrysanthemums for Profit© - - Arlene Wright-Correll
I remember an old boss of mine saying we would be lucky if we got our seed money back. He basically was raised on a farm and that was an old saying from his farming days. We certainly would like to get "our seed money back" from just about any endeavor we do whether it be in business or in a... Submitted 3 years 160 days ago.

I Love Bok Choy© - - Arlene Wright-Correll
Years ago when I was a kid growing up in Brooklyn we did not go out to eat in many restaurants, but we did get Chinese take out food often. There was something about those little white cardboard boxes with their metal handles that added a certain smell that mingled in with all the good fragrances... Submitted 3 years 160 days ago.

What is a Biennial Plant? © - - Arlene Wright-Correll
A Biennial plant is a plant when the seeds are sown usually produces foliage, roots, and leaves and stems the first season and the second season will produce flowers and set seeds giving you a plant that then seems like a perennial thereafter. A good example of this is the wonderful flowering... Submitted 3 years 160 days ago.

June 17 is Eat Your Vegetables Day© - - Arlene Wright-Correll
June is National Fruit Month and right smack dab in the middle of the month on every June 17th is National Eat Your Vegetables Day! We are encouraged to be healthy and by eating 5 different colored vegetables and fruits daily, especially fresh ones, we can be healthy. We all know those... Submitted 3 years 162 days ago.

Dealing With the Japanese Beetle© - - Arlene Wright-Correll
When I was a kid growing up during World War Two the only jitterbug I knew of was the kind the young people of that era danced or were called jitterbugs. It wasn't until I become a gardener that I learned that jitterbugs, in the gardening world, were really known as Japanese Beetles. Each year we... Submitted 3 years 162 days ago.

Why Not Grow Some Chinese Cabbage? © - - Arlene Wright-Correll
For years I really hated cabbage. I did not like the smell or taste of it until I discovered that my family had been cooking the heck out of it. Once I realized what could really be done with cabbage I had no problem with adding it to my cooking arsenal. Along the way I discovered Chinese cabbage... Submitted 3 years 162 days ago.

How to Correctly Prune Clematis© - - Arlene Wright-Correll
My three Jackmanii Clematis are blooming all over the place and they are beautiful right now and will continue to be for many, many weeks throughout the summer. There is really nothing more spectacular than Clematis. They grow up to 20 feet high (depending on the type you plant) and bloom for a... Submitted 3 years 162 days ago.

The Art of Weeding© - - Arlene Wright-Correll
Remember the theme song from the TV series "Monk"? It's called "It's a Jungle Out There" and I think that many times it refers to my gardens. Most of the growing activity is not anything I planted. Many of the things growing in abundance are weeds, especially perennial weeds. Productive weeding... Submitted 3 years 162 days ago.