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Creating A Really Nice Backyard Garden

December 05, 2009 By: Joey Singer Category: Create & Plan..., Tips Tricks & Steps

For every home, a garden is not just an extension of one’s home, but a place to relax, unwind and soak up the nature. A beautifully contoured landscape, blooming flowers and just spending restful hours in the midst of beauty is what every homeowner yearns for. Gardening can definitely become a passion; when you get to pick your very own fresh vegetables and fruits. Although there are landscaping firms who can take care of your backyard just as well; but you could end up paying thousands of dollars just to recarpet a lawn and perhaps a little more to maintain it. It is especially important for the beginner gardener to choose the right types of plants, determine the spot in the backyard where the garden needs to be designed; select the right garden space, adopt appropriate techniques to take care of one’s plants in the backyard and much more. Pre-plan each and every step before setting up your backyard garden, so it becomes a fun filed adventure rather than a nightmarish ritual. (more…)

Word of the day: softwood

December 05, 2009 By: Garden Dictionary Category: Garden Dictionary

The wood produced by coniferous trees and shrubs such as pines or Douglas fir, used mostly for construction or lumber, not as firewood. See also hardwood; conifer.

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Home Grown Tomatoes in Limited Space :)

December 05, 2009 By: Brian Stephens Category: Gardens - Vegetable, How To Grow...

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Principles of greenhouse effect

December 05, 2009 By: Henry White Category: Buildings 4 Gardens

The emission of infrared radiation by the atmosphere results in the warming up of the surface of a planet. This process is called the greenhouse effect. In other words, certain gases in the atmosphere trap the solar energy so that the earth experiences a considerable rise in temperature. These gases include carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, nitrous oxide etc. and they are known as green house gases. The absence of these gases will make the heat escape back into the space which will make life on earth impossible. Green houses make use of this mechanism. (more…)