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Grass Climate
Choose a grass type that thrives in your climate. The right type of grass, one that suits your needs and likes the local ... |
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Grass Seeding
Always buy "certified seed". This is identified by a blue tag saying certified. By spending a few extra cents up front, you ... |
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Green Homes Special Series: Part Three: Water-Friendly Landscapes
Our growing water supply challenge is evident with shrinking lakes, expanded drought zones and lower groundwater tables. And ... |
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Growing a Bamboo Garden
Bamboo provides a quick-growing evergreen screen and adds glorious character with delicate leaves and substantial culms or ... |
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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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Growing Peas
To plant or not to plant...the peas? When is the question. |
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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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Hardscaping the Backyard
Moving to the backyard, the hardscape material in the backyard changes. Natural flat field stones were used because of the ... |
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Heavily Harvested Herbs
Heavily harvested herb plants can look untidy. Consider interplanting herb beds with annual flowers to camouflage the trimmed ... |
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Helping Herbs
Herbs can help repel insects in the vegetable garden, and provide important habitat for beneficial insects. |
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Herb Gardening Basics
Over 15 million households in the United States grow herbs—in vegetable and perennials gardens, in containers, or on windowsills. |
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Herb Zones
Perennial herbs that are not hardy in your region can be overwintered indoors, then brought back outdoors in the spring. For ... |
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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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Houseplant Blights
When houseplants get sick and it's not insects, we may say they have blights. |
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Houseplant Bug Problems
Bugs have few natural indoor predators. It's here that their populations explode and cause real harm to our houseplants. |
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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 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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How to Fell a Tree
Whether it’s to clear land, stock up on firewood or prevent future damage to a home or property, felling a tree can be a fun, ... |
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How to Fix Brown and Bare Spots on Grass
Brown and bare spots of lawn can be brought back to life easily. |
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How to Force Buds to Open
Make spring come early by forcing branches on flowering trees. |
