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How to Start a Flower Garden
Plant a flower garden to bring color into your landscape. Select annuals and perennials that bloom throughout summer for maximum impact.Stick with
When to Add Manure to Vegetable Garden
Vegetables are herbaceous plants that produce fruit, seeds, roots, tubers or leaves as parts of a crop. Compost can enhance vegetable crop health by
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Grubs are larvae from various types of beetles that cause havoc beneath lawns and vegetable gardens, disrupting root systems and stopping plants from
How to Plant a Cut Flower Garden
Cut flower gardens add beauty and support wildlife habitat in one. Flowers like zinnias, poppies, and sunflowers provide pollen and nectar for
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An indoor cut flower garden is a simple and effective way to bring fresh blooms indoors. By employing succession planting, and mixing annuals and
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Soil is more than a mere bed of dirt; it provides essential nutrients to vegetable plants through its texture (sand, silt and clay) and pH balance -
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Repetition is key when designing an exquisite flower garden, just as location is for real estate purchases. Repetition makes the space seem
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Preparing a garden bed to plant vegetables is vitally important. Doing so ensures that they will grow successfully and be easy to weed over