BIOLOGICAL - Garden Guide
How to Build a Pond: Basic Considerations
Those of you familiar with my writing are accustomed to raves and rants about doing things in cooperation with nature rather than fighting against her; many years of trying it both ways have convinced me that the natural way is...
Preparing Your Pond For Warmer Weather
Spring is on the here and your sleeping pond is ready to awaken. Help your pond or water garden make a healthy and stress-free transition back to life with these helpful tips:Early Spring:
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Looking for a Pump for Your Pond?
Spring will be here soon, and many of you will either be looking for a pump for your pond, or be looking to replace a non-functional pump.The pump is one of the most important features of a pond, because without a pump, there...
Don't Treat Your Soil Like Dirt
Why use organic fertilizers? To start answering this question, a brief description of healthy soil is necessary. A healthy soil is a teaming environment of microorganisms. These tiny creatures decompose organic material so that...
Professional Pond Kits Provide Comprehensive Solution For Water Garden Projects
Two essential components of a professional water garden include a skimmer and a high-end waterfall filter. A pond skimmer helps to keep debris, such as leaves and twigs, off the surface of the pond. This is extremely important...
Don't Treat Your Soil Like Dirt
Why use organic fertilizers? To start answering this question, a brief description of healthy soil is necessary. A healthy soil is a teaming environment of microorganisms. These tiny creatures decompose organic material so that...
Easy Pond And Water Garden Construction
Todays successful water garden usually is designed as an ecosystem that uses a balance between fish, plants and bacteria keeping the water clear. The type of pond Im talking about is self-contained (not fed by a spring or...
Before Creating a Koi Pond
Koi ponds require a lot of time and maintenance. If you are not ready to invest time into your koi pond, then you should most definitely not invest the money into one. Koi do function as beautiful garden decorations, in a...
How to Identify and Control Pests and Diseases in your Garden
A number of pests and diseases are going to occur in your garden but there are ways to keep these to a minimum.Choose good quality plants avoiding soft bulbs, lanky bedding plants and unhealthy or disease-ridden shrubs and...
Setting Up A Goldfish Pond
Goldfish ponds are a beautiful addition to any garden and a stunning focal point. Goldfish ponds have been admired in Asia for centuries, especially in China and Japan. Today, you will find goldfish ponds all over the world,...
Looking for a Pump for Your Pond?
Spring will be here soon, and many of you will either be looking for a pump for your pond, or be looking to replace a non-functional pump.The pump is one of the most important features of a pond, because without a pump, there...
Preparing the Water for Your Koi Pond
When you have Koi in your garden pond the water must remain in a shady area. You will have to check the waters pH levels regularly. Any acidic content in the water can be damaging for the Koi fish in your pond.Koi ponds...
How to Build a Pond: Basic Considerations
Those of you familiar with my writing are accustomed to raves and rants about doing things in cooperation with nature rather than fighting against her; many years of trying it both ways have convinced me that the natural way is...
Tips On How To Choose The Best Pond Pump
It frequently comes as a surprise to the budding pond enthusiast but the simple fact about owning a pond is that pond maintenance is not as simple as many people at first imagine it to be. Below we take a closer look at how to...
Got Grubs? Managing Lawn Pests Organically
Innovative biologists and chemists have made it much easier to control the pests in your garden and there are now a dozen safe ways to control damaging insects.First of all you need to identify what kind of insects you have or...
Autumn Is The Best Time For Successful Compost Piles
Early autumn is the best season for successful composting piles. To start, here are some points on how to build a compost pile:* lay sheets of plastic on the ground.
* place a 6-inch layer of leaves or grass clippings on the...
Soil Basics - Creating Fertile, Healthy Soil
Have you ever looked at the soil in your garden and considered it as anything more than soil? If not you should because there is a lot more there than meets the eye. It performs many functions that you may not be aware of and...
History Of Apple Trees
Apple trees were the most popularly grown fruit tree in colonial America and practically every settlement farm and backyard gardener planted this easily grown fruit tree, or easier, the seed of the apple could be planted to...
Pests And Pest Control
There are lots of pests in this world, and at some point everyone will find themselves battling a pest. Pest can invade our garden, our home, buildings; the list goes on and on. Pests can be bugs, plants or animals. Just the...
Japanese Koi Pond/Water Garden
There are a lot of people that will tell you not to put Japanese Koi and plants together. Pet stores and internet articles suggest that koi will destroy any plants you put in your pond. I have been keeping Japanese Koi in my...