Importance of Testing Your Soil

Have you thought about testing your soil or getting it tested? This testing is not as difficult as you might think.

Since most plants have specific soil preferences — for example, azaleas prefer slightly acidic, while others such as geraniums prefer less acid — a PH test can save you money by helping you know which plants will do best in your garden.

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Do you know how plants grow?

. . .How the different parts of a plant work together to make the plant grow? I can almost see your reaction!!! However, we sometimes forget that plants are composed of many parts and that if one of those parts is not healthy, the plant will not survive. Read the rest of this entry »

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Tips To Help You Solve Soil Problems

Soil problems occur when your soil’s ph level is either too high or too low, when the nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium is incorrectly balanced or when you have improper soil drainage. Read the rest of this entry »

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When caring for indoor/house plants, there are just a few things you must consider: watering, feeding, lighting, temperature, humidiy, and repotting.

If you follow these tips, you will find the job easy. Read the rest of this entry »

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Organic lawn care is an easy-to-follow systematic approach to a beautiful lawn. You may think that without the use of insecticides and pesticides one would have difficulty growing lush grass.  Not so.

Insecticides and pesticides destroys the ecosystem in the soil: the worms, microorganisms and macroorganisms that live in the soil and keep it alive and healthy.  The result is that the soil becomes  depleted, the grass is not getting full nourishment, so it becomes prey to bugs.

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Deep root watering your plants in your garden

can save you time, water, and money. But most importantly, it promotes lush and vigorous growth

Deep Root Watering your plants can be easily done and should be practiced for many reasons:

1. Deep root watering promotes lush and vigorous growth, no matter what varieties of plants your grow.

2. Deep root watering saves water.

3. In depth watering encourages . . .

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So many gardeners are under the impression that flowering bulbs are planted only in the fall, but there is a vast variety of bulbs which are summer flowering bulbs . These bulbs are planted in the spring to produce beautiful exotic flowers in July and August — just when the garden needs a jolt of fresh color the most. (View a list of summer flowering bulbs at http://a1gardening-landscapingsupplies.com/Spring-Bulbs.html)

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