Creating a bed for a vegetable garden is back-breaking work, especially if turning over a large patch of grass is necessary. But there’s an easier way to create a bed for vegetables that requires time and planning, but very little labor.
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A season spent watching the yard is a good investment. Knowing where the sun shines during the spring and summer will help in garden placement planning. Watching the sun in the winter months can be misleading.…
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It’s always great to see your perennial flowers start blooming after a long winter. When flowers do not grow well, however, it can be difficult to determine why. If you have perennials that do not look healthy and are not blooming, below are two possible reasons.
Weeds
Weeds not only look unsightly, but they can harm your flowers. This is because when you water your perennials, the roots from the weeds steel this moisture from the perennial roots.…
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Every spring through many parts of the United States, tent caterpillars emerge from their protective nests and begin to feed. During boom years, these caterpillars can coat the ground below infested trees and strip their leaves bare, causing irreparable damage to any plants they wander into. You will need to take pest control measures to save your garden, but what can you do when there are thousands of them in your yard alone?…
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