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  • The history of the gnome.  By : djjem
    Greeted by a garden gnome people often grimace in horror and mutter some displeasure while thinking how anyone could anyone have one of those in their back garden. But we’re also told ( from people in the know) that there are approaching four million of them in southern Germany and if you know where to look there’s quite a few in the US aswell.
  • Landscaping, An American Pass Time  By : James Calvin
    Landscaping has been a favorite American pass time for hundreds of years. Recently through the added exposure of popular TV shows, the interest in sprucing up one’s landscaping has become greater than ever. Today, many shows are introducing everyone to new and fun ways to enjoy landscaping. There are even dedicated television channels, such as the Home and Garden channel, that explore all things beautiful to improve one’s living space and take it from just functional to luxur...
  • How to Attract Birds to Your Backyard Paradise For Less Than $100  By : Matthew C. Keegan
    Like many Americans, you may find bird watching to be a fascinating hobby. At the same time, perhaps you wonder how you can attract regular visitors to your yard without busting the bank by purchasing expensive foliage, feeders, and food. Here are some tips toward helping you establish a backyard paradise that is certain to welcome birds without draining your wallet.
  • Japanese Gardens – Basic Design Questions That Should Be Addressed  By : Rose Smith
    Designing a Japanese garden is more than plunking down some plants and rocks. Here are several questions you need to address to help with the process of planning out your own garden design.
  • Getting Rid of Standing Water in Your Yard  By : Michael J. McGroarty
    Does your lawn look more like a swamp after it rains? You don't need to hire a costly landscaper to solve the problem for you. This article explains a simple method to rid your lawn of standing water for good.
  • Tips for Preparing a Planting Bed  By : Michael J. McGroarty
    Think you have to hire professionals to make your yard beautiful? This article shows you everything you need to know to create planting beds for landscaping that will make your home stand out from the neighbors'.
  • The Basic Principles Of Landscape Design  By : Steve Boulden
    These are the same principles of landscape design that professionals use written so do-it-yourselfers can use and understand them.
  • Unifying and Separating Landscaping Planting Beds  By : Steve Boulden
    Using neutral colored landscaping plants to create unity or separation in landscape and garden planting schemes.
  • How To Make Your Own Moss Landscape Rock and Garden Statues  By : Steve Boulden
    You can create a lot of atmosphere in shady and water gardens simply by adding the element of moss to the landscape. However, natural moss can take quite a while to grow. Here's how you can make your own moss covered landscape rocks and statues without the wait.
  • Hillside Landscaping-Proper Watering  By : Steve Boulden
    Eliminating dry spots and dead plants due to water runoff on hillside and sloped landscapes.
  • Low Cost Home Landscaping Tips  By : ron king
    Installing and maintaining landscaping around your home can be a costly undertaking. By heeding a few of these money-saving tips, you can hold down your costs and create a beautiful landscape that you can afford to maintain.
  • Do It Yourself Landscape Design - Where To Begin  By : Steve Boulden
    Here’s one answer to an all too common home landscaping question. How do I start my design? Where do I begin?
  • Landscape Design - Well Balanced Home Landscaping  By : Steve Boulden
    A sense of balance is necessary in creating a professional looking landscape design. Creating balance and unity is simple and can actually make designing easier but it is often overlooked. Use these guidelines to simplify your design and to ensure that your garden or landscape has a professional finished look.
  • Country Lawn Maintenance - 10 Tips to Know Before You Mow  By : Nola L. Kelsey
    Urbanites with résumés limited to plucking the occasional dandelion from their xeriscape and raising a hydroponic tomato in the condo alcove, should rightfully tremble when considering the daunting task of country lawn maintenance.
  • Is Landscape Fabric Even Necessary In Landscaping?  By : Steve Boulden
    There is a popular debate as to whether landscaping fabrics are necessary in landscaping or if they even work at all. Here’s one professionals view on the matter.
  • Pictures Of Landscaping - Using Other Peoples Ideas To Design Your Landscape.  By : Steve Boulden
    Most of us look to other peoples landscaping pictures for gathering ideas for our own landscape projects. However, most do it yourselfers search hopelessly and endlessly for an exact picture or design of their own yard. Here’s what you should really be looking for.
  • Things You Should Consider When Buying Your First Garden Leaf Blower  By : len
    A basic guide on things to consider when buying a garden leaf blower, no matter what the size of your garden.
  • Make A Good First Impression: Landscape Your Driveway  By : ron king
    As the entrance to your home, the driveway should not be neglected. It can either be a scar on the other landscaping around the home or it can add depth to the entire look of your home
  • Easy Landscaping and Curb Appeal for Florida Homes  By : Kael
    The idea that an appealing outside is your best offense for intriguing potential buyers is based on the simple concept that first impressions really count. The great thing about learning some key elements of landscaping is that you can apply them to a home that you are just settling into, as well as one you are about to sell. For those who are selling or buying real estate in Tampa Bay Florida, some extra curb appeal advice will go a long way.
  • Robotic Lawn Mowers Keep Burglars Away  By : klc
    Minimizing strangers around your house is just as important as locking your doors. Burglars look for clues to empty houses, an unkempt yard is one of them. Lawn care services often don’t know their hired help as well as they should. Ideally you need to make strangers think you are home when you aren’t, but how?
  • Can Robotic Lawnmowers Save the World or at Least You Money?  By : klc
    Global warming and the rising cost of gas are making us all look for alternatives. Technology continues to progress forward in an ever quickening pace to make our lives easier. Finally something to handle the most dreaded weekly chore, mowing the yard. These robotic lawn mowers are environmental
  • Are Robotic Lawn Mowers in Your Future?  By : klc
    Now that they they are fully autonomous, robotic lawn mowers are beginning to creep in to every day life.
  • Landscaping Tips- the Water Garden  By : Carlo Morelli
    There are a lot of new trends surfacing in gardening, and water gardening is one of the new interests.
  • Improvements in Robotic Lawn Mowers  By : klc
    Now that they they are fully autonomous, robotic lawn mowers are beginning to creep in to every day life.
  • How to Reduce Pollution Using a Robotic Lawn Mower  By : klc
    Robotic lawn mowers emit no pollution, are fully autonomous, and will dramatically reduce the need for watering and fertilizers while making your yard even more green and beautiful. Save the planet and save the sweat.
  • Landscaping Tips: Concrete Pond Construction  By : Carlo Morelli
    Good concrete pond construction means not taking shortcuts.
  • Are Robotic Lawn Mowers Safe?  By : klc
    Robotic lawn mowers move relatively slow, people and animals can easily move out of the way. Although it takes a lot longer to mow, if everyone used them there would be 72,000 fewer hospital visits this year.
  • Mulch is Mother Natures Blanket  By : James Ellison
    Know the reason for mulch, what kinds there are, how much and where to put it.One of the most important part of gardening is mulching. It keeps down weeds by blocking the light that allows weeds to germinate. Mulch will slow down the evaporation of moisture from the soil, which also will keep the soil from drying out and creating a crusty soil.

    Earthworms love organic mulch, they eat the organic matter and produce castings. When they move around in the soil the tunnels they make aerates the soil and improves the texture. Other organisms do the same. All the work they do makes a nutrient-rich substance that our plants need.

    This process is actually decomposition, which adds valuable organic humus to the soil.

    Simple steps to mulching:

    1. Distribute the mulch material to a depth of at least 3 to 5 inches. The more coarse the material, the more you add.

    2. Place the mulch between and around the plants, but allow the immediate area around the base of the stems of annuals and perennials to be free of it.

    3. Moisten the mulch.

    When mulching trees and shrubs, keep the mulch approximately 5 - 10 inches from the base of the tree. Over time mulch on trunks, even with organic matter too close to the trunk of the plant, will cause many problems down the road.

    The wood mulch keeps the soil cool and maintains an even soil temperature. If bark chips and sawdust are used they may delete nitrogen from the soil when they decompose, so add some nitrogen to the soil first before and then after laying down such mulches.

    Look at organic wastes like shredded tree barks or light pruning, seasoned sawdust, wood shavings, peanut shells, cocoa bean hulls, rice husks, ground corn cobs, grass clippings, unused vegetable waste and seaweed.

    Black Plastic Sheets
    If organic methods are not your style then take a look at black plastic sheets that are used for mulching the soil. It affords excellent weed control and moisture conservation, if done properly.

    Lay the plastic mulch on top of the soil or beds beforehand, then cut x-shaped slits in the plastic and then just fold back underneath the flaps to plant. When performing this method make sure not to completely fill the hole in the plastic with the plant even when mature.

    Place holes or slits on the sides around the plastic to allow the passage of water and air for the benefit of the roots. The extra slits are crucial when using plastic to allow excess moisture to drain and prevent water-logging, which can happen on wet days.

    Compost
    When we speak of mulching we often mean using a layer of organic material on the surface of the soil, from dried lawn clippings to strips of newspapers. As time goes by this organic material decomposes because of the various agents present in the soil and will yield the all-important humus matter.

    If you plan on using animal manure, which is a nutrient-rich mulch, it should be combined with other material like lawn clippings or straw. Make sure this mixture is well rotted and then it will provide much needed nitrogen to the soil.

    Compost mixed with a rough mulch (called living mulch) is an excellent pick for mulching your soil or beds. Compost is the best form of mulch.

    Mulch-mowing Method
    Mulch-mowing is a simple method of using fallen leaves. A good sharp mulch blade on a lawn mower will be the best mulcher you can find. It will cut the grass blades and leaves into tiny pieces and at the same time, using the shredded leaves, produce a rougher textured mulch to cover the soil.

    Use this method every week to get the maximum benefit of the mulch on the ground. This will keep the chore easier to handle every week and provide a fresh supply of mulch to start decomposing and forming new organic matter to feed the soil and keep moisture.

    With mulch-mowing it keeps fewer leaves on the street that clog the drain system and from causing other hazards for the community.

    Whatever you do, mulch is a critical part of gardening and lawn maintenance. You never know when there will be a lack of rain or too much of it, a freeze comes along, lack of nutrients needed for the plant. If you mulch properly then you are prepared for the unexpected. Back to the basics.
  • Mower Maintenance for a Perfect Lawn  By : smgenie
    Taking care of your lawn does not have to be that hard with the right lawn mower. Be sure to consider your landscape when purchasing your first lawn mower.
  • Do Your Own Landscaping Design  By : ctb
    More and more people are turning to landscaping their gardens, not just planting a tree here and a shrub there but looking at their garden as they would look at the inside of their home. More thought as to the overall look and appeal and how plants can compliment each other.

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