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• when a tree needs pruning

  
  Prime Lawn Care — Authority: 125
  A tree may need tree pruning for a spread of reasons : to get rid of ill or storm-damaged branches to thin the crown to permit new expansion and better air circulation to reduce the height of a tree to get rid of obstructing lower branches to shape a tree for design purposes Once the decision has been made to prune, ...
  15 hours ago

• After the Frost: Time to Start Digging up the Dahlia Tubers

  
  heirloom gardener — Authority: 421
  This past weekend, we had our first frost, so I started to dig up the dahlia tubers for winter storage. I finished the tubers on Goldberry Hill and the Front Border (pictured), but still need to get the ones in the Cutting and Rose Gardens. For a full how-to, read my prior post, " How to Store Dahlia Tubers for ...
  3 days ago

• Rescuing My Old Apple Trees

  
  HappyFarming.com — Authority: 108
  I’m still struggling with my five old apple trees in my garden. If they are left alone they grow like crazy, sending up a massive number of shoots : They’ll quickly grow too big for my garden . Maybe if I only had one tree it would fit in the garden, but since they have always been pruned the limited area ...
  4 days ago

• A tale of gardening failure

  
  The Constant Gardener — Authority: 120
  My poor apple trees.I was raking up the leaves theyve so generously been scattering all over my chicken run, and to relieve the monotony (and the ache in my shoulders) decided to have a closer look at them - something I dont do nearly often enough.I found them etched with a sorry tale of years of callous neglect from ...
  4 days ago

• Gardening Supplies

  
  start-a-garden.com — Authority: 121
  Garden supplies are essential to the development of a good garden. They make gardening easy, and there are certain things that gardeners find indispensable. Here are some examples: Gloves: gloves help protect the hands from chapping or getting bruised while working in the garden. Typically, they are made of ...
  6 days ago

• General Pruning

  
  start-a-garden.com — Authority: 121
  Pruning your trees, shrubs and plants can be beneficial for almost all landscapes. Pruning is done primarily for the following reasons: 1. Promote flowering 2. Promote higher fruit yield 3. Improve the health of trees, shrubs and plants 4. Improve aesthetics / appearance 5. Control growth 6. Maintain a ...
  1 week ago

• Sacrificing Content for Relevance using SEO

  
  SEO Design Solutions — Authority: 124
  Sometimes you have to “make sacrifices” to keep your website lean, relevant and mean. Every time you add content to your website, the global term weights shift within that site which could either (a) steer the site off topic by diffusing the underlying structure of the sites semantic relevance or (b) improve or ...
  1 week ago

• Just about time to put the garden to bed for the winter

  
  As the Garden Grows — Authority: 106
  Join It’s hard to believe but November is here. It’s starting to get colder and the leaves are falling off the trees and my garden plants. It’s time to start putting the garden to bed for the winter. As far as gardening goes I dislike this time of year the most. Yes I still have some flowers blooming, ...
  1 week ago

• The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: Planting and Pruning Techniques

  
  Gardening Seeds Guide — Authority: 438
  Product DescriptionWith more than 130,000 copies sold since its original publication, the elegant and perennial garden care has proven to be one of the most useful tools a gardener can have. In this edition, expanded to more than 200 color photographs have been added, showing perennial border situations and providing ...
  2 weeks ago

• when a tree needs pruning

  
  Swimming Pool Contractors | Fiberglass Pools | Concrete Pools — Authority: 122
  A tree may need tree pruning for a spread of reasons : to get rid of sick or storm-damaged branches to thin the crown to allow new expansion and better air movement to reduce the height of a tree to get rid of obstructing lower branches to shape a tree for design purposes Once the choice has been made to prune, your ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pruning the Parks: Old Kasaan National Monument (1916-1955) – Moving the Totems Changed Everything

  
  National Parks Traveler — Authority: 569
  Old Kasaan National Monument was established on October 25, 1916 to preserve an abandoned Haida Indian village site in the Alaska panhandle. The Park Service moved historic totems to a different site, and Congress abolished the park in 1955. read more
  2 weeks ago

• TRUTH OR CURSE: "DESTROY THEM WHICH DESTROY THE EARTH": ON THE ALEX JONES VIDEO: "FALL OF THE REPUBLIC"

  
  REAL LIBERAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH — Authority: 128
  Truth or Curse: "Destroy Them Which Destroy the Earth" (Revelation 11:18): My Commentary on the New Alex Jones Video: "Fall of the Republic: The Presidency of Barack H. Obama" (full video and play lists below) And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, ...
  2 weeks ago

• How To Keep Your Garden Healthy In Winter

  
  Ideas for Outdoor Living — Authority: 113
  Winters’ arrival is just around the corner but this doesn’t mean that the Winter garden can be neglected. Getting your garden ready for the ravages that winter can bring is very important this time of year. Neglecting the proper chores and winter maintenance tasks in closing your garden properly is only a recipe ...
  3 weeks ago

• Getting a handle on handsaws

  
  The Hardware Aisle — Authority: 136
  Theres a rumor that all the engineers at Stanley Tools are named Stanley. Now I dont know if thats true or not, but whatever their names are, they are a very clever bunch.Here, fresh from the drawing board is the Stanley FatMax Xtreme Instant-Change Handsaw, one of the most ingeniously designed, versatile and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Inspiration from West Dean #3

  
  The Constant Gardener — Authority: 120
  If you thought training fruit was a simple matter of arranging the branches in a sort of fan-shape against a wall, think again. You can trim them into single stems - cordons - trimming off all the side shoots to encourage fruiting spurs from the main stem only. If youve heard of espaliers and fan-training, youve ...
  3 weeks ago

• What to Do This Week

  
  In the Garden — Authority: 133
  Perennials: Complete pruning of rambler roses. Plant bare-root roses. Continue lifting and dividing iris, lily of the valley and day lilies. Plant peonies until the end of the month. Cut established peonies down to just above ground level and dispose of the foliage. Annuals: Three ways to winter over geraniums: ...
  4 weeks ago

• Pruning the Parks: Castle Pinckney National Monument (1933-1956)

  
  National Parks Traveler — Authority: 569
  The Park Service acquired South Carolina’s Castle Pinckney National Monument in 1933, but was glad to see it abolished and transferred in the 1950s. Lacking a glorious past, and too expensive to restore, the old island fort now sits rotting in Charleston harbor. read more
  4 weeks ago

• Trim Trees Wisely

  
  The Earth Is Not a Trash Can — Authority: 124
  Yesterday I was at my commission sales contract job when I heard the sounds of a tree being butchered. I was unaware that there was a large tree in the area, as it sits on the Dolly Parton compound on 12South. At lunch the tree had become one large stick about 20 feet in the air. It had been stripped clean of ...
  6 weeks ago

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