EQUIVALENT - Garden Guide
How to Care Garden Tractor Tires
Garden Tractor Tire DesignYou would have noted that the garden tractor have different diameters on the front and rear tires. The front tires are smaller and the rear ones are large. The tractors are front wheel driven and this...
Recycle Those Clippings
Alright. The mowing season will soon be upon us, and I know that you can't wait to break the old mower out, gas it up, check the oil, and get started. Before you do, let me ask you a question. Thinking of bagging those lawn...
Bouquets A Simple Gift that Says a Thousand Words
Bouquet is a French word with no English equivalent, for an arrangement of cut flowers.A bouquet is the most common form of gift-wrapping for a bunch of flowers. The individual flowers are separated, cut and preened of dead...
Getting The Most Out Of Your Hydroponics
Hydroponics is one of those subjects that few know muchm if anything about; is rife with misinformation and a minefield of useless products.Water temperature - Your nutrient solution should feel COLD at 21oC NOT WARM. 21...
About What We Call Bonsai Seeds
The question we will answer in this article is: Do bonsai seeds exist? The answer is NO. There is no such thing as bonsai seeds. However, tree seeds exist. Let me explain.You cannot plant a supposed bonsai seed and expect...
Starting With Cuttings
If you already have access to healthy plants that display desirable characteristics it is possible to clone new plants from them these plants will be genetically identical to their parent plant, provided the environmental...
What You Need To Get Yout Indoor Garden Started
Many people take great pleasure in their gardens, though they are usually situated outside. Some gardeners, however, take part in another form of gardening, and thats indoor gardening.Indoor gardening offers some perks that...
Another Kind of Energy or ComPost-Modernism
PERMACULTURE HAS ITS GENESIS in the visionary work of J. Russell Smith, J. Sholto Douglas, Robert Hart, and others less well known, who, two generations ago and more, realized the urgency of transforming the basis of...
Choosing Gardening Tools
There are many tools that are available to gardeners. Indeed the range can be quite confusing to the newcomer to the hobby who may be uncertain about which tools are needed to perform given tasks. Hand tools are very important...
An Edible Flower Garden
To most of us, the idea of eating flowers evokes the humorous image of someone biting into a rose, or chomping off the head of a daisy. Yet there was a time not so very long ago that flowers were an integral part of cooking....
Enriching the Land and Enriching Our Lives
In our previous article we talked about how important it is to keep our topsoil enriched, so that it has the vitality to maintain itself. We mentioned that erosion the manmade variety, not the natural type has become one...
How A Garden Designer Can Transform Your Garden
Many fine gardens evolve gradually through the loving attention of their owners with little or no outside help. But when it comes to creating a new garden, or taking over an existing one that has fallen on hard times or...
Cordless Electric Lawn Mower Review
IntroductionThis is a review of the Black and Decker (B&D) CMM1000 5 HP cordless electric lawn mower with a 19-inch cutting path. The mower has a mulching feature and came with a rear-mounted grass catcher. The author has used...
Use Of Garden Tractor For Small Areas
Decide Use of Garden Tractors Or Lawn TractorsWhen you have a small garden the question of using the garden tractor seems like a waste of money. When a smaller lawn tractor will do your work equally well, why spend more money...
Edible Flowers in Your Garden
Flowers can be an integral part of cooking. While most of us are aware that violets can be candied and nasturtiums can be eaten in salads, theres a bounty of flower varieties that are both edible and delicious.Satisfying Your...
Organic vs. Inorganic Fertilizer
Central to the science of agronomy is the topic of increasing crop yields and growing healthy plants that provide high nutritional value. While the debate will continue between organic and inorganic fertilizers one fact is...
Learning More About Gardening And Landscaping
If you are interested in possibly taking up gardening, you may have hesitated to actually dive into gardening because you simply are afraid that you do not have enough knowledge to be successful at gardening. In reality, there...
Fall is the Time to Get Your Garden Trees and Shrubs Ready for Winter: Here's What to Do
Tips for winter care of trees and shrubsWith the garden season drawing to a close, it's awfully tempting to forget about your plants. But you should continue to water all woody plants - especially newly planted trees and shrubs...
Top 5 Secrets to Growing Beautiful Carnivorous Plants
SECRET #1: Know thy plant.
This may seem like a no-brainer, but one that first-time growers overlook. There
are many types of carnivorous plants occurring on every continent in the world,
except Antarctica.If you were to...
8 Tips - Vegetable Gardening
1. While planning your vegetable garden, consider what and how much you will plant. In selecting a site or plot, consider the exposure to sunlight. It is important to consider also the different sunlight requirement for...