Gardening Question of the Day for Friday, June 13, 2008
(Via Gardening Question of the Day (from The Old Farmer's Almanac))
What is the best way to remove a tree stump? (answer).
What is the best way to remove a tree stump? (answer).
From The Old Farmer's Almanac.
Garden Design For Curb Appeal
(Via Home and Family: Gardening Articles from EzineArticles.com)
Street-side landscape design, or "curb appeal" gardening, is becoming a bigger and bigger issue with many homeowners as they seek to maintain high property values. This easy guide will give you some of the simple methods of designing for curb appeal.
Street-side landscape design, or "curb appeal" gardening, is becoming a bigger and bigger issue with many homeowners as they seek to maintain high property values. This easy guide will give you some of the simple methods of designing for curb appeal.
Garden Weed Control - How Best to Deal With Oxalis
(Via Home and Family: Gardening Articles from EzineArticles.com)
There are uglier garden weeds than Wood Sorrel, (Oxalis) but not many as difficult to treat. Within a bed of ground cover plants for example, it can be disastrous.
There are uglier garden weeds than Wood Sorrel, (Oxalis) but not many as difficult to treat. Within a bed of ground cover plants for example, it can be disastrous.
How to Prepare Your Soil For a Truly Productive Garden
(Via Home and Family: Gardening Articles from EzineArticles.com)
Soil preparation is step one in getting your garden ready for cultivation and if possible should be done in the fall. This will give the soil time over the winter to enrich itself after you have dressed and tilled it. Excellent results can still be achieved if this timetable is not feasible, so this timing is not absolutely critical.
Soil preparation is step one in getting your garden ready for cultivation and if possible should be done in the fall. This will give the soil time over the winter to enrich itself after you have dressed and tilled it. Excellent results can still be achieved if this timetable is not feasible, so this timing is not absolutely critical.
Enhance Your Flower Garden With Garden Edging
(Via Home and Family: Gardening Articles from EzineArticles.com)
Garden edging is much like the frame of a painting. It can help set your garden apart, and enhance its beauty.
Garden edging is much like the frame of a painting. It can help set your garden apart, and enhance its beauty.
Are We Starving Ourselves to Death?
(Via Home and Family: Gardening Articles from EzineArticles.com)
Would you eat dead vegetables completely devoid of nutrients and vitamins? I do not think so, but it seems that the government wants us to.
Would you eat dead vegetables completely devoid of nutrients and vitamins? I do not think so, but it seems that the government wants us to.
Your Vegetable Garden Soil - Have You Looked at it Recently?
(Via Home and Family: Gardening Articles from EzineArticles.com)
Good vegetable garden soil is the foundation of successful gardening. Good healthy garden soil supports strong productive plants, it supplies abundant moisture, nutrients and support as plants grow.
Good vegetable garden soil is the foundation of successful gardening. Good healthy garden soil supports strong productive plants, it supplies abundant moisture, nutrients and support as plants grow.
The Drowning Of Iowa
(Via An Iowa Garden)
Iowa, or much of it, is under water. We've all heard of "One Hundred Year Floods". I had never before heard of a "Five Hundred Year Flood", which is what this is being called. If I were to drive a few blocks down the road to the bottom of our hill, I would drive into the maelstrom in the bottom picture above... and the real flood has not even begun! The Coralville dam, seen at the top on June 10th, is predicted to overflow by five feet of water (over the lower wing dam on the right). Our house is at the top of the wooded hill seen to the right of the dam, about a half mile away. The roads and bridges around us are already closing, the sandbags are breaching... and it's raining again. Pray for Iowa.
(pictures from the Iowa City Press-Citizen of June tenth, for which I thank them)
Press-Citizen
(pictures from the Iowa City Press-Citizen of June tenth, for which I thank them)
Press-Citizen
