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1.	Bookmarks: 20	Tip-Top Trailing Plants For Containers Introducing the top three trailing plants for containers this season.- Bidens ferulifoliaWithin your containers, consider planting Bidens ferulifolia commonly known as the Tickseed or Apache beggar tick.Gardeners who require trailing colour for containers or hanging baskets often opt for this native of North America and Mexico. Tickseed stems are quite slender, these fine stems can be expected to trail and sprawl vigorously to around 60cm (24 inches) from a co...
2.	Bookmarks: 10	Implements And Their Uses It may seem to the reader that it is all very well to make a garden with a pencil, but that the work of transferring it to the soil must be quite another problem and one entailing so much work that he will leave it to the professional market gardener.
3.	Bookmarks: 13	Ideal Garden Tools For The Green Thumb Garden plants need good-quality soil, sufficient water and the sun's heat to attain their maximum growth while gardeners need their tools to make this happen. If you are new to gardening, you might be overwhelmed by the multitude of tools available in your local hardware.
4.	Bookmarks: 7	How to Coax Fresh Vegetables From the Garden All Winter Long With a little care gardeners in cold weather climates can extend their vegetable production far beyond the the normal growing season. This article presents a number of techniques to grow more vegetables, herbs, and flowers, further into the fall and winter than you may have thought possible.
5.	Bookmarks: 1	Growing The Greatest Flowers Around Most every gardener strives to grow the best, most stunning flowers around, but that goal is hard to get hold of. Whether you want to raise prize-winning blooms or just have a home garden filled with of beautiful flowers, there are some things you can do in order to ensure your garden is in the best shape possible.Soil chemistry countsThe chemical make-up of the soil is one of the biggest factors that contribute to the success or failure of your garden. If the soil in y...
6.	Bookmarks: 4	Gifts for the Gardener Is there a gardener you need to buy a gift for? Christmas is as great a reason as you can get to buy gifts for that special gardener. You don't have to look far to find great gifts for gardeners. Every year there seem to be new gadgets coming out and several on-line websites have wonderful gardening gifts. A couple of them are www.gardenscape.on.ca/ and www.behnkes.com. Both sites have an abundance of unique gifts for the gardener. Local hardware or home improvement stores will also have a...
7.	Bookmarks: 4	Get Some Garden Tools It is spring now, and for many people, that means getting out into the garden. I for one love getting into my garden and spending hour after hour preparing the soil and planting the seeds of my favorite vegetables, fruits and flowers. If you love to garden then you know a few things are absolutely essential. Having the right garden tools is one thing that no gardener, however amateur or experienced, can go without.I have loved being in my garden for as long as I can remem...
8.	Bookmarks: 1	Garden Soil Preparation for the Backyard Gardener Planting a backyard garden can be a fun and rewarding experience if you approach the planning and preparations aspect of gardening in the right way, but a lack of planning and preparation can cause your hard work in the hot summer months to yield...
9.	Bookmarks: 5	Gardening Your Personality: The Greens Of Growth Many gardeners are the nurturing type: just like Mother Nature. People say they have “green thumbs” because they can make anything grow. Is your personality the growth type? Are you the kind of person who wants to see others grow and develop? If so, you probably love to be around children and, though you are exhausted at the end of the day, you feel like it is all worth it if you have helped other people. So is there green in your garden?It seems to be a silly question: i...
10.	Bookmarks: 1	Gardening Tools. Nurturing Your Garden As in all types of work, the right tool will make your job infinitely easier, and this fact remains true for your garden as well. There are so many tools, both traditional and contemporary, that are a part of a gardener's arsenal.
11.	Bookmarks: 2	Gardening Magazines At Their Finest Various gardening magazines are available in the market. But would you like to know which stands out from the rest? Here are some gardening magazines that feature various information for anyone in love with his or her garden.COUNTRY GARDENS presents readers the eventful experiences of gardeners with their extraordinary gardens. It introduces wonderful new ways to enjoy garden sights and scents. It helps one to create an eye-pleasing, fragrance - filled country garden. ...
12.	Bookmarks: 1	Gardening Is Not An Easy Task But Home Gardening Tips Helps You Gardening is not an easy task; you have to fight against many outside forces, such as forecast, insects, disease, and weeds. Even the most exercised of gardeners will seek out gardening advice once in a while. Who wouldn't when there are so many forces that could take a garden out' There is a lot of general gardening advice on the market which goes for any plant, but if you look a small harder you will find definite advice for that one plant that is the only one giving you trouble.
13.	Bookmarks: 3	Gardening By The Yard Tips You have always been envious of your neighbors' spruced up garden by the yard. Flowers and lush shrubs abound in their tiny nook of paradise. You ask yourself why you never get to have that kind of garden. And, you usually dismiss such wondering with lines like I don't have a green thumb! or I can't afford a gardener or a professional landscaper, which are both lame alibis.If you want your yard to look regal with a simple but well-maintained garden, you only need two ...
14.	Bookmarks: 0	Fun and Food in Home Grown Vegetable Gardening Growing vegetables in your garden can save you money. During harvest time, your own produce becomes part of your meals. Home gardeners feel deep satisfaction in preparing salad or seasoning the casserole with freshly picked plants from their own vegetable gardens. Their feeling of the taste is incomparable.
15.	Bookmarks: 3	Find Peace And Happiness Through Gardening Gardening is a wonderful and relaxing hobby enjoyed by many all over the world. People who enjoy gardening often feel a deep-rooted sense of calm and tranquility, and they also forge a stronger connection with nature.There are many types and forms of gardening. Organic gardening is a unique method of gardening and allows the gardener to really bond with Mother Nature. Organic gardening really gets down to the basics of growing fruits and vegetables, using only what Mother...
16.	Bookmarks: 3	Earthworms In The Garden / Earthworm Facts Notice the lowly earthworm, squirming away, going about its everyday business. Simple creatures you may think but they have quite a important use in the garden. Did you know the earthworms are nature's first gardeners? They don't exist just for kids to eat and fishermen to use as bait :)Some Basic Earthworm FactsEarthworms are present in almost every type of soil but the healthier the soil the greater the numbers. A healthy soil permits lots of air and moisture, bot...
17.	Bookmarks: 3	Do You Have All Of Your Garden Supplies? The garden season is close to beginning. If you have made a list it’s a good start. Here are some kid friendly garden supplies that should be on every kid gardener’s list.Garden pruners are like scissors. They are needed to cut branches back and even harvest fruit and produce. There are different sizes from the smallest to larger branch pruners often called shears. A sturdy strong set of garden pruners is best. You also might want to consider the grip. Have the kids c...
18.	Bookmarks: 2	Container Gardening Tips For New Gardeners With more and more people living in apartments and condominiums, and moving into neighborhoods where back yards are smaller than driveways, container gardening is becoming increasingly popular. But many people are afraid that it is difficult of expensive. Amy Stevens explains how easy and inexpensive it can really be.
19.	Bookmarks: 2	Chooks – The Organic Gardener’s All-Rounder Keeping chooks is a must for organic gardeners. The gardening benefits are numerous, they can make fun pets and keep you entertained with their antics. You’ll find tips in this article to make it easy to have and look after your feathered friends.
20.	Bookmarks: 1	Caring For Your Plant Bulbs Bulbs are generally the easiest of all plants to care for, and this makes bulbs one of the most popular among gardeners.
21.	Bookmarks: 3	Buying Seeds For Your Garden On The Net Many people like the challenge of raising plants and flowers from seeds. While it can be easier to stop by the local gardening center and purchase plants that are already growing, many gardeners truly enjoy the prospect and challenge of raising plants and vegetables for their gardens from seeds.Perhaps you are a person who is interested in growing flowers and vegetables for your own garden spaces from seeds. If that is the case, you may be wondering what resources are ava...
22.	Bookmarks: 6	A Better Weekend Gardening Experience It's vital to start the process of having a hassle-free garden. This article gives you that first step and helps achieve some sound understanding of what you face as a weekend gardener. Our goal is to create a garden that practically takes care of itself.Unlike my neighbor, Fred.Fred never found a way to escape the prison of responsibilities and hard, never-ending work required by a high-maintenance garden.If you want to avoid Fred's fate, you need to start by mak...
23.	Bookmarks: 2	All About Riding Lawn Mowers Most riding lawn mowers are machines fun to ride and extremely cool to look at. However, they are just a dream for many gardeners who can not afford one of these powerful gardening equipment. A riding mower can be a practical time saving machine for professionals as well as for beginner or amateur landscapers. If you are on of those homeowners, lucky to maintain a large yard, it can be a good idea to invest in a riding mower.Basics of lawn mowersWe will explain first ...
24.	Bookmarks: 3	Green Thumbs. Who Grow Gardens And Cultivate Communities Green Thumbs. Who Grow Gardens And Cultivate Communities. Cash Rewards For Gardeners Who Help Others, Beautify Neighborhoods
25.	Bookmarks: 3	The Secret To Healthier Plants? Let’s Ask My Grandfather. Farmers and gardeners of a few decades ago knew a thing or two about healthier plants and soils. This is what I learned from one of them.
26.	Bookmarks: 1	Why You Need A Compost Tumbler For Your Garden If you’re looking to turn your garbage into gardener’s gold and do it in a hurry, then you should try a compost tumbler. If you have a compost bin then you know how great it is to add compost to your flower beds and vegetable garden. But making compost takes time and it’s usually in short supply. A compost tumbler is a great time saver when making compost.Some gardeners believe that compost is better than fertilizer because it doesn’t just feed your plants, it also improv...
27.	Bookmarks: 3	The Organic Gardener It’s not always easy to be an organic gardener. Even committed organic gardeners sometimes long to spray herbicide on goutweed or pesky poison ivy. When Japanese beetles or rose chafers arrive in throngs just before your garden party, you may suffer an urge for the good old days — the time before you understood that spraying an insecticide would kill beneficial bugs along with the bad, aggravating your pest problems. But there are also problems that are more easily addressed ...
28.	Bookmarks: 1	Wind Chimes - An Unexpected Pleasure What could be more soothing to a gardener's soul then the sudden sound of wind chimes softly catching the breeze on a summer day? I always have to stop whatever I'm doing in the garden and just listen to the wind chimes which seem to be telling me, all is well with my world.Undoubtedly, one of the first set of wind chimes were made from plain sticks and/or strings of small sea shells. Then wind chimes graduated to those made from the hollow stalks of bamboo, which result...
29.	Bookmarks: 2	Why Rose Gardening Is So Addictive For many of us, the act of gardening brings us closer to nature by getting us outdoors and allowing us the opportunity to tend and grow objects that in the absence of our assistance would not be able to survive, let alone thrive. There is a special connection between the growers of roses and their plants, however, which seems to go even beyond the basic instincts of the traditional gardener.The first reason that roses can be such an addictive plant is the roots it has in ...
30.	Bookmarks: 0	Why Every Gardener Needs A Garden Shed One of my all-time favorite hobbies is having a garden each year. I think my love for gardening started when I was a little girl spending summers with my grandmother and helping her take care of her large vegetable and flower gardens. I love the feeling of getting dirt in my fingernails and of seeing healthy vegetables and beautiful flowers grow from the tinest seeds. My grandmother taught me a lot about life and about gardening during those summers. One of the main things I ...
31.	Bookmarks: 0	Using Popular Rose Varieties In Your Garden When many people think of gardening, their thoughts turn first to roses, and there is no wonder. Roses are among the most popular, and certainly most beautiful, types of flowers there are. In addition, roses are a huge part of both the gardening hobby and the professional flower business. There are even rose and flowers shows were master gardeners proudly show off their lovely creations to an awestruck crowd.Whether your ultimate goal is to take the big prize at the next ...
32.	Bookmarks: 2	Tips For The Rose Gardener Rose gardens are probably the most popular type of garden in the world, ranging from Marie Antoinette’s famous gardens before the French revolution to a few shrubs tucked in a tiny backyard. With their wonderful scents and lovely blossoms, it is no wonder these surprisingly sturdy plants are so popular. After all, no other flowers are used as frequently as roses to symbolize love and friendship. If you’d like to grow beautiful roses in your yard, try a few of these simple ros...
33.	Bookmarks: 5	The Art of Japanese Bonsai The Japanese refined and developed Bonsai techniques and evolved the art form it is today. For the Japanese, bonsai represents a fusion of strong ancient beliefs with the Eastern philosophies of the harmony between man, the soul and nature.
34.	Bookmarks: 0	Taking Care Of Perennials In Your Garden For a very long time, perennials have been one of the more popular varieties of flowering plants. One of the biggest advantages of planting perennials in your garden is that they come back every year. Perennials are popular with both beginning gardeners and experienced gardeners because of the rewards reaped for planting them and being able to have beautiful flowers for multiple seasons.Another benefit of planting perennials is that they are often easy plants to maintain....
35.	Bookmarks: 4	Summer Gardening Tips Gardeners eagerly look forward to summer when they can enjoy the fruits of all their hard work. But along with summer comes humidity and the problems it creates. This article explores that downfall and provides valuable tips on maintaining a beautiful garden.
36.	Bookmarks: 0	Small Leaf Shredder - The New Must Own Gardening Tool With the current and ever growing pressure on landfill sites in the United States it has become every gardeners responsibility to make best use of the garden waste they produce. Critical to this effort is finding a way to turn common garden refuse such as grass leaves and twigs into usable compost material, and in recent years this has become a much simpler task with the development of the small leaf shredder.
37.	Bookmarks: 3	Selecting The Perfect Garden Tools For Your Yard As winter days grow longer, the gardener in all of us longs to be out digging in the dirt. After many cold months of sitting in warm kitchens and happily dreaming of flower and vegetable gardens, it is a wonderful feeling to finally get outside in the sun and feel the earth beneath your fingertips. If you have never before known the satisfaction of working the soil and nurturing plants, there is no time like the present to start enjoying everything that gardening has to offer...
38.	Bookmarks: 1	Secrets to Growing Tomatoes in Containers Growing tomatoes in containers offers a fun and flexible alternative for home gardeners. Through my years of experience doing container gardening, I've discovered some tricks for increasing my success.
39.	Bookmarks: 2	Reliable Lawn Mowers For Healthy Gardens Learn how lawn mowers are able to save time when mowing around your beautiful garden. Which model would fit better into your garden? Well, this is an easy question to answer. First of all, any gardener must know what’s the purpose or the principal aim of their gardens. It is highly recommended to purchase a truly and reliable lawn mower, such as John Deere or Toro, because they have been awarded many times already as manufacturer of the year. Thus, choose the best products to...
40.	Bookmarks: 1	Priceless Potting Tables Potting table is the place where the garden pots, manures, other mixes, temporary storage for garden supplies are kept. In other words, potting table is a work bench.This is the table where the gardener plans the gardening activities
41.	Bookmarks: 2	Planting Annual Flowers In The Garden Popular with new and more experienced gardeners alike, annuals are some of the most beautiful, lively, and interesting of all flowers. The massive diversity of annuals, their wide range of colors and styles, and their ease of care make annuals an in-demand choice for gardens everywhere.Do you know what makes and annual plant truly an annual? For an annual to really be an annual, the plant must finish its entire life phase in one planting season. The seeds germinate, the f...
42.	Bookmarks: 2	Organic Gardening In The 21st Century Over the course of the past decade, a significant number of men and women from different parts of the world have taken up gardening. In this regard, these people have found themselves interested both in creating magnificent flower gardens as well as in cultivating thriving vegetable gardens.A majority of gardeners still rely on what might be considered mainstream methods when it comes to the care and maintenance of either their flower or vegetable gardens. In other word...
43.	Bookmarks: 2	Making Short Work of Slugs and Snails Most gardeners have a passionate dislike for slugs and snails on account of the devastation they can wreak to young plants. Find out the various methods you can use to control them, from midnight slug hunts to all out warfare.