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How To Be Your Own Landscape Designer

Summary: Anyone can be their own landscape designer, no matter how small a plot, from small backyard to a country estate. Anyone willing to familiarize themselves some knowledge and general design principles can act as their own landscaping designer. Question: How difficult is it for us to design our own landscape plan, do we need […]

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Making a Sample Landscaping Plan

A practical landscape design planting plan will payoff many times over when the time arrives for the actual planting. Location of trees, shrubs, garden paths and flower borders can be changed in a few seconds on paper.

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Assigning the Five Basic Landscaping Areas

After landscape designer has placed the existing objects on a plan, designing the landscaping plan can begin and the first step is to decide on the size and location of the five basic areas.

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Wheelbarrows And Garden Carts – A Comparison Review

There are many different types of wheelbarrows and garden carts to pick from today. There have been many innovations in design and materials used to construct these garden tools. Let’s look at the advantages and disadvantages of some of them, because choosing the right one to fit your needs makes all the difference! Check out […]

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Garden Carts and Wheelbarrows

Summary: A garden cart or wheelbarrow is a workhorse garden tool which many gardeners, DIY landscapers and homeowners “love” as a back and time saver for their work outdoors. Take the time to choose wisely and select the one best suited for your needs. Question: My husband needs a wheelbarrow or some type of garden […]

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Short or Long Day Plants = Photosperiodism

Summary: The day length plays a part in plants flowering and fall into various groups depending on the day length, or photoperiod needed for flowering. Do you know if tuberous begonias are short or long day plants? Question: What do they mean when people talk of short day plants and long day plants? Are they […]

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Process of Photosynthesis

The sun, beaming down on green leaves, starts plant manufacturing systems into action, providing them with the power to derive carbon dioxide from air, and water from soil, and to turn these substances into sugar and starch, which is their food. This manufacturing process is called photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is carried on only when plant tissues […]

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Applying Fertilizer – Making Applications Effective

Summary: When applying fertilizer many items must be considered – fertilizer brands, fertilizer prices, liquid, organic, NPK ratio, lawn, vegetables, flower and plants – But the first question is – when you apply fertilizer will it be effective? Question: We are looking for the best fertilizer for grass, but we also want to fertilize our […]

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Cold Frame Gardening

Cold frame gardening and a hotbed is big in the month of March. This is the time when seeds and cuttings are started for the garden’s plant supplies and extend your gardening season. Utilizing Space Efficiently In order to utilize cold frame space efficiently, sowing and transplanting operations must be planned to fit your particular […]

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Lawn Thatch

What Is Thatching In Lawns Thatch is simply dead vegetation like grass clipping that build up as a layer on the soil surface. A healthy soil usually contains a small thatch layer, excess can be detrimental, however, a healthy soil also will produce large populations of organisms which feed and consume the thatch. Kentucky bluegrass, […]

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