ERASE - Garden Guide
Ten Tips to Boost Your Home's Curb Appeal
Do your flowerbeds and pots look like weed beds? Does the paint on your house look faded? Are your shrubs hiding your front door? If so, it may be time to boost your homes curb appeal. Try these ten tips to help you...
How To Prevent Damping Off
Damping off is the single term used to describe underground, soil line, or crown rots of seedlings due to unknown causes.The term actually covers several soil borne diseases of plants and seed borne fungi.The fungi which cause...
How to Plan an Herb Garden
An herb garden can bring a person a lot of pleasure because there's so many things that can be done with herbs such as herbal crafts, herbal teas and herbal seasonings. On top of this, you get to care and tend for the plants...
Rare And Exotic Garden Perennials For Landscape Planting
The term, 'perennial plant', means simply that the plant returns following severe freezes, to grow again the next year. Trees are cold hardy tested perennials by nature, some trees that are evergreens and do not go dormant, but...
Tools for Raking and Cultivating
With its short rigid tines a bow rake is excellent for leveling a bed after digging it up with a shovel or garden fork. Bow rakes will also remove stones and debris from the soil.Just as its name implies a leaf rate is used...
Cedar Adirondack Chairs
The smell of spring is in the air! We are all starting to get that all warm and fuzzy feeling inside. We are awaiting the arrival of summer with child-like anticipation. Soon we will be celebrating family reunions, neighborhood...
Gardening Without Plastic
Plastic is a non organic substance which adds nothing to the soil. Plastics cause a lot of trouble if you try to grow crops were they have been buried. In fact some believe that plastics can interfere with plant growth. I...
A Beautiful Garden Is A Work Of Heart
There is immense satisfaction in creating your own garden plan -- the satisfaction derived from relaxing or entertaining in the garden as well as the satisfaction that comes from a job well done. The effort that you expend in...
Simplicity With Fountains In Garden Design
Simplicity has always been the basis of good design, and adding a garden fountain is no exception. Besides, good garden design is nearly as easy as it is simple! Its when you complicate things that issues arise. You have only...
Tools for Planting and Cultivating
Shovels come in small, large, round, or square, scooped or flat. You'll have to have one to dig up soil and move it around. Choose a light weight one that has a comfortable hand grip. A small bladed shovel is easier and less...