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Spring Planting Tips: Part 2
If your soil is heavy clay, I highly suggest that your raise the planting bed at least 8” with good rich topsoil. If you can't do that for some reason, install the plant so that at least 2” or more of the root ball is above the existing grade and mound the soil over the root ball.
Lawn and Garden -
Hydroponic Gardening - Getting Great Results with Your Hydroponic Vegetables!
Did you ever wish to have the type of garden which would produce delicious vegetables, fruits, and flowers throughout the whole year? Did you even know that was possible? Well it is - if you do hydroponic gardening! And you can create a hydroponic garden in your own home.
Lawn Care Business -
Advertising A Lawn Care Business
Advice on the best way to advertise my new lawn care business.
Lawn Care Resources -
Website: Clean Air Gardening
Clean Air Gardening Features environmentally friendly lawn and garden supplies including manual reel mowers, compost bins, container garden planters, garden tools and more.
Lawn Care Service -
How To Hire Someone To Care For Your Lawn
Lawn care is a very important aspect of home maintenance. Lawns need to be regularly mowed, weeded, edged, controlled for pests, and fertilized to ensure a beautiful compliment to your home. Often the amount of time needed to properly care for a lawn can be extensive. With today's busy schedules, people often don't have the time to care for their yard properly. Using a lawn care service is an inexpensive way to keep the yard looking nice without taking up all your free time.
Lawn Care Tips -
How To Start A New Lawn
There are occasions when a lawn is just so bad that nothing short of starting over is going to help. This brief guide will tell you what you need to do to start a new lawn. It assumes that you have a bad, existing lawn.
Lawn Equipment -
Do I Buy A Mulching Lawn Mower Or Collect The Grass
When buying a new lawn mower, you need to decide up front if you plan to mulch or collect the grass clippings trimmed off by your lawn mower.
Lawn Fertilizers -
Control Crabgrass Using Halts
Crabgrass is an annual grass that grows out of control during the heat of the summer. Crabgrass is typically a problem around the warmer areas of the yard next to curbs, sidewalks and driveways. There are a few best practices for controlling crabgrass, one of which is using a pre-emergent herbicide called Halts.
Organic Lawn Care -
Organic Lawn Care
Most homeowners, especially those with pets and kids, are worried about the safety of the products they use on their lawns. Chemical pesticides, fertilizers, and herbicides might make your lawn more attractive, but they have negative effects on your family's health and the environment at large. Because of the hazards from commercial lawn care products, most gardeners turn to organic methods. You too can implement organic lawn maintenance in your own home.
Pests and Insects -
How To Get Rid Of Garden Ants & Bugs
Insects are incredibly adaptable creatures and have evolved to live successfully in most environments on earth, including deserts and even the Antarctic. Insects are generally regarded as bad creatures but they are extremely useful to humans, pollinating our crops as well as flowers in meadows, forests, deserts and other areas. Insects are vital to the immense cycle of life, furnishing food for other creatures and breaking down natural materials to chemicals and nutrients for recycling into new life
Landscaping -
Switching From Conventional to Natural Organic Lawn Care
The first step in switching from conventional to natural organic lawn care is to assess the quality of the existing lawn. If an existing lawn contains few weeds and consists of desirable turfgrass species, natural organic methods and cultural practices can maintain a satisfactory lawn. However, if a lawn has excessive weeds and/or consists of undesirable turfgrass species, it is best to kill the entire lawn and start over. After this decision has been made, the next step is to assess soil quality.
Lawn and Garden -
Weed Control Facts: Winning the Battle of the Weeds
You've spent countless hours planting your lawn and garden, only to find that the weeds are growing better than your lawn and flowers. But you can win the battle of the weeds. This article explains how you can achieve victory over the weeds.
Lawn Care Business -
How To Price a Lawn
There is an interesting video on lawncare-business.com which demonstrates a way to "price a lawn" or estimate the price for mowing a lawn. If you are thinking about or already have a lawn care service business, you'll want to check this out.
Lawn Care Resources -
Website: Clean Air Gardening
Clean Air Gardening Features environmentally friendly lawn and garden supplies including manual reel mowers, compost bins, container garden planters, garden tools and more.
Lawn Care Service -
Should I Hire a Professional Lawn Care Service?
Considering hiring a professional lawn care company to maintain your lawn? There are many different companies available to maintain your lawn and each company may offer slightly different services and at different prices. The following are answers to some commonly asked questions when considering hiring a professional lawn care company.
Lawn Care Tips -
Tips For Transplanting Trees
Early spring is a great time for transplanting trees and shrubs, but you must do so before they wake up. Transplanting a plant is a very traumatic experience for the plant if it is awake. It’s like doing surgery on a person while they are awake. Dormancy starts in the fall as soon as you experience a good hard freeze, and the plants remain dormant until the weather warms up in the spring. This is when you should transplant, while the plants are dormant.
Lawn Equipment -
Protect Your Lawn With The Proper Lawn Care Equipment
As any homeowner will tell you, the upkeep of the perfect lawn can be a meticulous and time-consuming job requiring many hours of dedication and around-the-year care. For some, who do not have the time or skills needed to maintain a healthy lawn, professional lawn care services are appropriate and worth the money.
Lawn Fertilizers -
Weed Control Facts: Winning the Battle of the Weeds
You've spent countless hours planting your lawn and garden, only to find that the weeds are growing better than your lawn and flowers. But you can win the battle of the weeds. This article explains how you can achieve victory over the weeds.
Organic Lawn Care -
Switching From Conventional to Natural Organic Lawn Care
The first step in switching from conventional to natural organic lawn care is to assess the quality of the existing lawn. If an existing lawn contains few weeds and consists of desirable turfgrass species, natural organic methods and cultural practices can maintain a satisfactory lawn. However, if a lawn has excessive weeds and/or consists of undesirable turfgrass species, it is best to kill the entire lawn and start over. After this decision has been made, the next step is to assess soil quality.
Pests and Insects -
How To Get Rid Of Garden Ants & Bugs
Insects are incredibly adaptable creatures and have evolved to live successfully in most environments on earth, including deserts and even the Antarctic. Insects are generally regarded as bad creatures but they are extremely useful to humans, pollinating our crops as well as flowers in meadows, forests, deserts and other areas. Insects are vital to the immense cycle of life, furnishing food for other creatures and breaking down natural materials to chemicals and nutrients for recycling into new life
