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Don't rest on your laurels now that you've got everything planted. Your crops need more from you than the occasional watering in order to thrive.

Landscape stone is a beautiful way to accent a garden bed, but weeds can be a problem.

Weeding is one of the most detested of all gardening chores, but it doesn't have to be. Weeding can be made much simpler by implementing a few work saving methods.

Weeds are plants growing where a landscaper does not want them. Lawn weeds can be removed before they grow by using a pre-emergent weed killer.

Mulch may look like dirt, but it has many unknown and unrecognized properties.

Got weeds? Who doesn't! Follow these simple weed control tips beginning early in the spring to control weeds in your flower garden all season long.

Landscape fabric yields excellent results when we carefully analyze and then prepare project sites. Checklists are important and useful before planting and/or mulching.

Exotic trees may look beautiful in the landscape, but some have a dark side: They may be exotic invasives that are harmful to the ecosystem.

Almost everyone can grow tasty, healthy vegetables on their own at home. Now you can enjoy the health benefits and the savings by starting your own garden.

First: clear the ground for your flower bed. Quick how-to guide on weed removal by hand or with a sod cutter, smothering weeds organically, or using herbicide.

Perennial, persistant weeds make clearing a new vegetable garden very hard, frustrating work. This method gives you weed free soil, as well as vegetables, within a year.

Our desire to have a lush, thick lawn is often short-lived once dandelions emerge in early May, dotting the once-green landscape with nickel-sized yellow flowers.

Now you can save money and grow healthful organic vegetables right in your own backyard.

The Tree of Heaven, while it may be a heavenly plant in China, is not so angelic in areas outside its native range. It is an exotic invasive that is hard to control.

Wild bird watching and feeding is a fascinating hobby but beneath all the flurry and colorful activity an important partnership with nature is playing out.

Desert vegetable garden pests come in all sizes and shapes, from microscopic, to many legged and small, to two- and four-legged and large.

Avoiding chemical products and working with nature, instead of against it, can result in a lush green carpet that's healthier for people, pets, and the environment.

Go Green. Cut down on your paper waste by reusing old newspapers.

Landscape fabric (geotextiles) for weed and erosion control may make landscape maintenance easier. Using landscape fabric properly with projects is vital for success.

The thought of all that back-breaking digging puts many people off growing their own vegetables. The no dig system of gardening offers an alternative, but does it work?

Creating a beautiful and fruitful garden can be easy by utilizing the gardening techniques of mulch and compost.

Organic gardeners can plant wildflower meadows as a low maintenance lawn alternative. However, wildflowers need a modicum of care to improve blooming and prevent weeds.

Corn (Zea mays) has long been a staple of the American diet and a traditional part of summer fare. Gardeners can experiment with new hybrids--or rely on old standbys.

Don't you have better things to do than weed the garden? More simple steps to controlling weeds in the flower garden all season long -- with minimal work.

Use Gardening Basics for Dummies as a reference to learn how to plant a garden from scratch or redesign an old landscape plan. Home gardening for beginners.

If you like garlic, the period between September and November is the best time to plant.

Anyone who has forsaken spinach because they've only eaten it from cans--or because of recent contamination scares--should consider growing it themselves.

Blueberry bushes offer three seasons' charm and healthful fruit benefits. With some care, they can be incorporated into the home gardening landscape.

Green gardens make use of native plants, eco-friendly pots and potting soil, rain barrels, and more.

Complete the perfect greenhouse with these 5 greenhouse flooring ideas.

Designing a garden in the Capitol City and other hot summer climates can prove challenging. Read on for tips that will help to produce a landscape that thrives.

Spreading organic mulch on your flower garden keeps plants and soil healthy. Mulch naturally prevents weeds, keeps soil cool and moist, and supplies organic matter.

Advice on how to control weeds and grow your own vegetables all year round without the with natural fertilizers and organic methods.

Organic gardening and conventional vegetable gardening differ in pest control and fertility: organic gardening utilizes organic weed killer and organic fertilizer.

Organic mulches are beneficial and earth friendly.

Flower gardeners know perennial flowers respond to basic care with better blooms and vigorous growth. Follow these summer care tips for your best perennial garden ever!

Insect poisons made from flowers, crushed fossils, and extracts from certain fruits are being used to kill or repel insect pests.

Recycled Christmas trees are finding many uses in community recycling programs ranging from mulch to sand dunes to fish habitats.

If you practice weed prevention in the organic garden, you'll never miss your chemical herbicides.

Solving science problems and mysteries provided students with real world applications of the inquiry based learning. They learn to investigate the same way as scientists.

Whether you went on vacation and came home to weeds or you have been battling weeds in your garden all season, follow this guide to summer weed control now.

Sometimes runoff water from impervious surfaces will concentrate and cause erosion problems. Rain gardens harvest this water, filter pollutants, and prevent erosion.

Helen Mills, vice-president of Green Gardeners, says that when you are inside at night and you hear a rustling outside, you may think it is the leaves in the wind.

A quick guide to flower care during the hot summer months -- and tips on how to enjoy your flower garden more, too.

Home grown tomatoes taste fantastic and are easy to grow in pots or a spare patch of garden bed. Follow these steps for sweet, juicy fruits you can truly call your own.

A number of criteria must be met before food can be labeled organic. This article presents an overview of what it takes to win that coveted designation.

Spreading weeds such as Convolvulus arvensis can take over the garden in a matter of weeks if not dealt with quickly. Here's how to get rid of it forever!