Plant Gardens 101

Regular lawn maintenance means removing weeds from your lawn. At the first sign of weeds, many homeowners run to the local home and garden center to purchase caustic chemicals. When it comes to lawn care, this can be a major mistake. Eliminating weeds can be accomplished by knowing what kind of weeds you have and how they behave.

Weeds Have Unique Personalities

Before you load up your sprayer and hit your lawn with a blast of Roundup, consider this: weeds, just like other plants, have their own characteristics. They typically grow differently, flourish in a variety of conditions and can be quite resilient. If you understand that, you may want to hold off treatment until you discover exactly what types of weeds you’re dealing with. (more…)

There are several watering methods that have proven to be effective in the home plot. In this term, we will focus on one that emphasizes conservation and yet will promote opulent and stanch lump, no material what varieties of plants you grow.

The Deep Watering sense has proven to stop water and persuade plants to form strong, active search systems.

It’s basically very unfussy - you water excluding regularly, say once every 1 to 2 weeks, while each time you dampen more truly. (more…)

How do you start gardening is quite a common question.
The answer is simply to have a go. It is like most things, if you don’t try you will never succeed.

1. But you have to be born with green fingers?
It is inevitable that some people will be better than others. That goes for most things in life. You can have enjoyment picking out a tune on a piano without having to play a Beethoven concerto. The same is true of gardening.

2. I like to plant and create but all I seem to do is weed and deadhead.
This is a common complaint but the weeding and deadheading, in other words maintenance can be so relaxing. Once planted, a garden needs time to mature and it needs some tender loving care to attain the best results. Don’t make it hard work and tackle large areas all at one go and mix up the jobs. Working like a Trojan weeding the whole garden in a day can be very tiring and although you will see the fruits of your labour it can produce a mental barrier for the next time. Take it slowly and it might surprise you how your mind drifts off onto other things. It is called relaxing your mind. You begin to work out many things that are subconsciously worrying you. (more…)

A substance in the leaves and bark of some plants that protects against insects and fungi.