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Gardening in Big Flowerpots
Fill large flowerpots with a glorious assortment of annuals for a colorful, easy to maintain container garden. |
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Gardening Made Easy
A few simple strategies to make your garden less labor intensive. |
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Gardening With Kids: Theme Gardens
Planning a garden around a theme, such as a fairyland or outer space, allows kids to create a growing space that means ... |
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Gardening with Perennials: Choosing Plants
A few ideas to keep in mind when you're planning your gardens and choosing plants. |
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Gardening with Perennials: Designing with Color
The great thing about flowers is that you really can't go wrong with them. Even if a perennial bed doesn't turn out exactly ... |
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Gardening with Perennials: Gardens with Style
Choosing a garden style is a little like getting dressed. |
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Gardening with Perennials: Getting Started
Whether you're a new gardener planning your first perennial bed, or an experienced gardener hoping to improve your existing ... |
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Growing Biennials
Biennials are started from seed the first year then they flower and die the second year. There are many exceptions to this ... |
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Hanging Plants
Consider planting flowers in hanging baskets if your garden space is limited. |
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Hardening Off
Before placing young plants in the garden they should be hardened off. Plants taken directly from the house to the garden ... |
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High-Nitrogen Fertilizer
Nitrogen encourages leafy growth, often at the expense of flowers and fruit. Don't use high-nitrogen fertilizers on tomatoes, ... |
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House Plant Insects
nsects can live in house plant soil. The most common of these is the fungus gnat. The adult lays eggs that produce small white ... |
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How Gardens Grow
One of the joys of summer is making time to read technical journals and publications that pile up on the floor that have been ... |
 
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How to Build a Flower Box
Western red cedar was used to construct this window flower box project in one day. The naturally weather- and insect-resistant ... |
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How to Build Window Boxes
Whether you live in an apartment in the city or in a cottage by the beach, a window box makes a lovely planter for flowers. |
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Indiana University Greenhouse Tour
Bob interviews Don Burton from Indiana University as he tours a 1955 state-of-the-art greenhouse. He then tours a modern ... |
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Insect Check
Want to check for surface feeding insects? Cut out both ends of a coffee can, screw it into the suspected area of infestation, ... |
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Invite Birds to Your Garden
Ideally, bird plantings should be a blend of trees, shrubs, vines and flowers that provide food over a long period. |
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Landscape Design
Bob meets with landscape architects Rick & Nancy Lamb to discuss the existing landscape. In addition, arborist Charley ... |
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Landscape Design
Bob talks with landscape architect Clara Bachelor about the condition of the yard and the final landscape design. |
