How to Beat the Drought in Your Landscape
The hot, dry months are just about here, and the garden will need water. But in many localities, the summer demand for water taxes the supply, and water for the garden must be curtailed. What can you do? There are two solutions to the problem.... Read More...
Build Steps Safe to Use
Properly designed steps are safe and comfortable to use. If you must pull your foot back or reach p out to make contact with the step bel low, or if you have the sensation of pitching forward as you go down a flight of steps, the proportion... Read More...
Water Your Landscape the Right Way
Many a landscape grows well without benefit of irrigation but rare is the garden, lawn or landscape that does not respond gloriously to some extra watering. Then, too, extra watering is necessary because seldom does a summer pass without a dry spell that... Read More...
Grow Better Roses with Music?
Well, you have pruned, sprayed, mulched, watered and done everything else we could think of. Is there anything additional we could do to grow better roses? Perhaps. Have you tried music? Neither have I but by the time you read this I may be.... Read More...
Sprayers Lighten the Job of Pest Control
Spraying the landscape or garden is easier now, although it never was a difficult task. It’s easier because of the labor-saving features built into the new garden sprayers. Some of the standard models have been redesigned and there are new... Read More...
Forget Me Nots True or False
Forget-Me-Nots by any other name would not be so sweet to gardeners, nor would the other numerous little blue flowers affectionately given the same name by their admirers. It does seem strange that through the years, both here and abroad, so... Read More...
Foliar Feeding Getting It’s Roots
Supplying food to plants through their leaves is a practice that’s been found to be sound, practical and necessary or desirable under certain conditions. Lest the dirt gardener misunderstand and so disapprove of foliar feeding, it is not a substitute... Read More...
Gardenkeeping
The basic idea that gardens are to live in, rather than just to be decorative or to grow flowers in, has taken a long time to emerge. The garden of today is an extension of the home… an outdoor living room. With this change in use has come a change... Read More...
Lawn Labor Savers
Lawn care can require a lot of the average home owner’s time. There are two ways to reduce the amount of time spent on a lawn: (1) reduce lawn area by replanting with a ground cover or by paving part of it for a patio or similar structural development,... Read More...
Underground Lawn Sprinkler Systems
Maintaining a beautiful lawn during hot, dry summers along with the added restrictions on water use is a problem for many home owners across America. We have one of two choices. Either we water the lawn the best we can and try to save it, or... Read More...
