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• June Gardening Tips

  
  start-a-garden.com — Authority: 121
  These are just a few gardening tips for you to consider here in late June. Many people seem to think that just because all the plants have been put into their places for the summer and your perennials are blooming, or past bloom, there is no more work to be done. The garden is full of multi-colored flowers, so there ...
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• Loads of folks opt to put in wooden swing sets

  
  Pinchisgringos.com — Authority: 460
  A lot of folks opt to set up wooden swing sets in their backyards. It’s vital that whatever kind of wooden swing set you choose be installed safely. There are numerous different things that go into the security of a wooden swing set like placement, safety inspections, and assembly. The advised age range for wood ...
  3 days ago

• What to Do This Week

  
  In the Garden — Authority: 132
  Perennials: Continue planting bulbs. Mulch loosely with leaves or straw. Protect from squirrel foraging with plastic fruit boxes, screening or soak them in a deer repellent. A scattering of mothballs might help, too. It is too soon to mulch beds, but collect fallen oak leaves and pine needles to use later, after the ...
  3 days ago

• Beat the Heat: Watering Tips for the Garden and Yard

  
  DIY Network - Home Improvement How-To & Projects : DIY Network — Authority: 158
  July tends to be warm or hot in most areas of the US. Our last few days have been warmer than normal and the next few promise to be the same. The heat and lack of rain can be hard on plants. Here are a few tips to save on watering and watering time [...]
  3 days ago

• Preparing Your Garden Beds for Winter

  
  Green Baby Guide — Authority: 125
  It’s the beginning of November, and my tomato plants are still churning out tomatoes. The beans bit the dust weeks ago. Aphids attacked the carrots, so out they went!  Once everything gets ripped from the ground, how do you get your garden beds ready for winter? Here are some tips I learned from The Vegetable ...
  4 days ago

• Thumbs Up to Raking!

  
  Garden Coach Providing Free Garden Help | GardenHelp.org — Authority: 118
  I’ve been pretty impressed with the number of rakes I’ve seen around the neighborhood this year. On a typical 30 minute dog walk this weekend, I passed several homeowners doing fall clean up. And, not one of them was using a petrol-hungry, pollution spewing blower to clean up fallen leaves. Instead, families and ...
  6 days ago

• Mulch: Mother Nature’s Blanket

  
  Ideas for Outdoor Living — Authority: 110
  Mulching is one of the most important parts of gardening. Here we are going to talk about the reasons for mulching, what kinds of mulches there are, and how much and where to put it. Reasons: 1. It keeps down weeds by blocking the light that allows weeds to germinate. 2. Mulch will slow down the evaporation ...
  1 week ago

• Planting Bare Roots

  
  start-a-garden.com — Authority: 121
  Bare root plants are easy to handle. They are usually dormant perennials, shrubs, or trees that have been harvested from the field, have had the soil washed from their roots and then have been stored in refrigeration for later shipment. “Bare rooting” a plant is a safe, proven, and much used means of storing and ...
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• Plan your perennial garden now

  
  DIY Network - Home Improvement How-To & Projects : DIY Network — Authority: 158
  Whether you are just re-vamping an older garden or starting a new garden, now is the time to start planning your perennial garden.It may seem rather early but you will need to evaluate the plants you have or need to purchase and fix the garden bed properly.The most important step in a garden is the [...]
  1 week ago

• Garden Coach on Removing Grass with Little Effort by Sheet Mulching

  
  Garden Coach Providing Free Garden Help | GardenHelp.org — Authority: 118
  When I meet with a new garden coaching client, I always come armed with information on caring for lawns lawns in sustainable ways. However, these days I find myself pulling that information out of my client packets and exchanging it for information on how to remove lawns. Reducing lawns in favor of lower maintenance, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Growing Our Own – November’s To Do List

  
  VegBox Recipes Blog — Authority: 108
  gardeners gold The leaves are blazing orange, yellow and red and falling in arm-fulls. This is gardeners’ gold, so get gathering! This month’s article explains the basics of mulch and leaf mold, as well as talking you through the usual list of what to harvest, what to sow and how to look after your ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rainy Days & Rusty Trucks

  
  Random Abstractons & Homestead Journal — Authority: 112
  Id planned to buy a load of mulch Friday to cover the muddy path that develops each winter between our front door and the wood shed, and another that forms between the back door and the collection of sheds behind the house.I found a good source of cheap mulch at a local lumber processing plant (I cant bring myself to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Do-It-Yourself: Fungus From Mulch Can Damage Vinyl Siding

  
  loans-blog — Authority: 145
  Q The vinyl siding on our house has many small black spots that we understand are caused by a fungus in mulch. How can we remove these ugly spots? — M. Haaser Source: Do-It-Yourself: Fungus From Mulch Can Damage Vinyl Siding
  2 weeks ago

• Rubber Mulch Playground Flooring

  
  Quadtechint.com — Authority: 438
  I am working as a Principal in a kindergarten, the most important thing for a kid studying in a kindergarten is playing. I really admire and feel very happy when these kids play in the play ground and this makes me to remember my childhood days. But i feel very sad to see the children crying when they get hurt due to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mulch and Feed your Gardens for Free

  
  Gardening Seeds Guide — Authority: 441
  In the throwaway society today, there is absolutely no need to go out and buy material of fertilizer for your garden, unless the particular aesthetic appearance, "The Look", or is padding.   Did you know that there are a number of mulching materials that you can get around your own community, they are free, and some ...
  2 weeks ago

• Re: [nndl] backyard salvage & garden

  
  Northloop Neighborhoods - Community News & Directory — Authority: 464
  - To respond privately, use the "Reply" command. To post to the list "Forward" to nndl [at] 14gram [dot] com - kate amerson wrote: > if anyone is gardening/landscaping- I just bought some nice plants > (buford holly & American beautyberry) & organic compost from the new > folks in town (at ...
  2 weeks ago

• Easy Composting

  
  The GreenMan — Authority: 116
  Composting is a simple, natural process. There is no need to purchase special activators or fertilizers to make the materials in your compost pile or bin break down. Compost just happens! Here are some basic strategies for making compost "happen" for you:Slow and Easy CompostingBuild your compost pile anytime of ...
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• Cemetery goes under; two other companies file bankruptcy

  
  Richmond BizSense — Authority: 512
  Three businesses have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the past few days: a cemetery outside Petersburg, a business that ran two gas stations and an excavation company in Chesterfield.
  2 weeks ago

• Get Your Yard Ready for Winter

  
  The Home Know-It-All — Authority: 106
  This past weekend, my ambitious parents carefully planted 11, yes 11, arborvitae in their yard, their last big landscaping feat before winter rolls around. Now theyre busy getting the rest of their lawn and garden ready for winter before the first major frost hits. Are you in the same boat? Heres what you need to do: ...
  3 weeks ago

• mulch or rake leaves

  
  DIY Network - Home Improvement How-To & Projects : DIY Network — Authority: 158
  I’m in zone 5 – the winters can be nasty at timesIs it better to mulch leaves and cover the lawn or remove them?ThanksIf you have a lot of leaves, its better to remove them. Or mulch them and bag and put in flower beds or compost. Individual leaves (or even shredded leaves) matted into [...]
  3 weeks ago

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