KEEPS - Garden Guide
How to Build Fences
A fence can be useful for several things like privacy, weather barrier, and containment for children or just for decoration. Your imagination is the only thing thats limit the design. You can get some good ideas when you are...
Use of Straw Bales for Construction Purposes
Straw bale is a large package of raw or finished straws tightly bound with twine or wire and frequently wrapped. Straw bale is considered to be a waste product but it can be used for many purposes. Straw bale is durable, hence...
Quickly Grow a Natural Privacy Screen or Sound Barrier
The Perfect Fast-Growing Evergreen Screen
This week we are featuring an evergreen that is not only fast growing, beautiful and low-maintenance, but supplies the ideal privacy screen - 'Thuja 'Steeplechase.' 'Steeplechase' is a...
How To Build A Compost Bin
For those of you with pesky neighbors who don't appreciate big piles of yard waste rotting in plain sight, there is the compost bin. The compost bin keeps your compost neat and tidy. Choosing the right type of bin for you is...
The Secret of Rooting Cuttings
The secret of rooting cuttings can be summed up in two words.Timing and technique.When you do your cuttings is every bit as important as how you do them. So if you do the right thing, at the right time of the year, your...
How to Grow Garlic in Your Home Garden Successfully
Greetings fellow Gardeners!The following tutorial refers to garlic growing specifically, but can easily be used for most onion crops as well.The following information is for general garlic growing that I have used for my own...
New Crape Myrtle Trees Flourish in Both Northern and Southern Climates
If you really want to give the gift of color this holiday season, skip the clothing and jewelry and instead consider a crape myrtle tree for your home and garden. These fast growing trees are very ornamental, with clusters of...
Have Green In Your Yard All Year With The Ever Green Evergreen
For landscape artists, green is the ideal background. It supplies tranquility and is cool in the eye. By staring at a green landscape, the eyes relax and are soothed.Because ever green shrubs are in constant foliage all year...
Getting Rid Of That Black Mold Around Shrubs And Ivy
Have you ever seen that sooty, gray stuff on the leaves of your shrubs or ivy? That's mold. It's another variety of the same stuff you find on your bathroom tiles or in parts of your house that have water damage.Usually, we...
One Man Went To Mow...But Just How Do You Mow A Meadow?
This may not be the burning question on everyone's lips, but have you ever wondered how the grass in large open meadows and parks gets cut?You may be surprised to hear that there is a "magic formula" for ensuring these areas...
Thinning Out and Watering Your Vegetable Seedlings
Thinning OutBegin to thin out the seedlings as early as possible; not only will this allow the remainder the extra space to develop properly, it will also stop those which are not required taking up the nutrients needed to feed...
Tips For Growing Beautiful Roses
Growing roses isn't difficult. It just takes some tender loving care.Plant roses in a location which gets full sunlight.Roses should be pruned in the spring. Cut out dead and damaged branches. Always sharpen the hand shears and...
The Advantage of Aluminum Railings
Aluminum railings offer many benefits over other materials that are used for railings. You will find that there are many different ways that aluminum can be used for railings and that aluminum can be mixed with other...
How to Grow Organic Tomatoes
There are many rewards for tackling the back yard pass time of growing tomatoes:
working our hands in the dirt is a form of meditation,
it carries on traditions of our ancestors,
and it slows our world down enough to enjoy...
Water Farm Hydroponics Use Massive Reservoirs Connecting Multiple Growing Units
Water farm hydroponics is definitely the best facility large business owners could use for extensive soilless cultures. Hydroponic systems all function on the same basis with the only mention that according to plant growing...
Backyard Problem Solver - Inexpensive Hints & Tips
Whether you are a renter or a home owner on a limited budget, there are many inexpensive ways for you to become your own backyard problem solver. The best potential backyard problem solving approach is preventative...
Abatement With DDT Concept Needs Second Look
As you are probably aware DDT was banned in many countries. But DDT kills mosquitoes and in places like Africa where the death rate of children is 5 to one perhaps a little DDT in the water is not such a bad idea as it keeps...
Tomato Plants and Black Fungus Disease
Question: How do you deal with black fungus disease? It seems this nasty disease keeps on killing my tomatoesAnswer:My grandfather grew tomatoes in Poland, where black fungus was
just as much of a problem as it is for you....
How Greenhouses Work
Greenhouses work by the differing transparency of glass to solar and thermal radiation. Glass is transparent to most of the wavelengths of solar radiation, but is thick to the much longer (thermal infrared) wavelengths released...
Types and Uses Of Landscape Mulch
As you drive around the Heartland, you see that most landscape beds are covered with some sort of mulch. Although many people consider decorative gravels as mulch, I would like to define landscape mulch as an organic material...