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Planting Bulbs This Weekend? Ten Q&A Tips for Guaranteed Success

It’s that rare, magnificent autumn day, and you want to take full advantage of it by planting all of your spring-flowering bulbs, today. The following ten tips will guarantee the…

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A Lifetime of Endless Summers: Special Hydrangea Care Tips for Northerners

There are few northern gardeners who haven’t at least once wished that they could grow the lovely florist’s hydrangeas in their gardens, the kind with the enormous globular mopheads of…

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Vermicompost – Composting With Worms

Composting with worms can be a way to produce bigger, better vegetables in your own garden or a way to make a little money on the side. It is relatively…

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A Look at Garden Mulch Options: The Pros and Cons of Different Types of Mulch

Applying mulch is an essential gardening step. Of all the various garden mulch options, which one is the best? Learn about the different types of mulch available for everyday gardening,…

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Types of Yard Drainage Systems for Clay Yard Drainage Problems

Here are a few types of yard drainage solutions for clay yard drainage problems in flooding yards, including a French drain yard drainage system and installing a rock bed underneath…

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How to Choose the Best Garden Soil for Your Home Garden?

Everybody loves to have a beautiful home garden filled with flowers or vegetables. But to have some good indications and plantation around your garden, you need to have the best…

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Permaculture: A System for Sustainable Living

Why battle against the Earth to force it to produce products that naturally wouldn’t flourish? As a different approach, permaculture mimics natural ecosystems to maximize food production as well as…

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A Case for a Messy Garden

There are many things that can be said for my vegetable garden; however, neat is not one of them. I prescribe to what can be described as the “messy garden”…

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What You Need to Know to Become an Urban Farmer

Whether you have a tiny yard or no outdoor space at all, you can become an urban farmer. Growing your own produce saves money, beautifies your space and reduces your…

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Top 3 Tips to Prepare Garden Soil for Outdoor Home Area

Do you like the company of plants more than humans? If yes, you have a thing for gardening. Gardeners have a unique relationship with the plants. They nurture them with…

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