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Worms farms are a great way to recycle your kitchen scraps and are excellent for small gardens, better than compost bins. The best worms for worms farms are tigers, blues and reds and they can be bought from your local nursery. Remember, they don’t survive in the garden, so when you are adding your vermicasts (the manure) to your garden, …

Jobs to do in Spring Fed your bulbs with a high potassium (potash) fertiliser, to encourage them to set flowers for next spring. Don’t cut their foliage off until it is brown and dead. If you do, then you won’t have flowers next year. Start incorporating compost and animal manure into your soil to improve its water holding capacity. Core …

What do you want the garage for? Perhaps you want to park the car in it or to store the lawn mower and a few garden tools. Maybe it will be used as the workshop you always wanted. A basic straight forward garage is not that expensive to build but as your requirements go up so does the cost of …

The Yard Butler HT-2EZ Garden Hose Truck is one of those products that you either love, or hate. First off, when compared to a plastic garden hose reel, the Yard Butler is definitely an improvement, but, if you do a lot of hose work in your garden, you may want to get something just another notch better. For light duty …

Gardening can be one of the most rewarding activities you will ever do. It can also be the most time consuming. It doesn’t matter if your garden is big or small, or if you plant it raised beds or in plant pots – you have to start with a plan. Now that you have an idea of how climate, space, …

Whether you’re a new or experienced gardener, there’s only one thing you should be concerned about: the health of your plants. Now, many of the factors to a plant’s health are within your control – but not all of them. There are some factors that you’ll have to work with, and not all of them are pleasant. The main factors …

Trellises are a great addition to any garden. They are both functional and beautiful. In addition, trellises help keep vines healthy by allowing them to grow above the ground, away from the moisture of the soil. Many varieties of creeping vegetables thrive well on trellises. The gardener, however, must ensure that a trellis is sturdy enough to support heavier vegetables …

Used to grow everything from grapes, to beans, to flowers, to purely ornamental vines, garden trellises expand your garden up off the ground and into the air. Garden trellises can be free standing or attached to a fence, wall or building. Although many plant supports are called trellises, a real trellis exists solely to support a vertically-growing plant and to …

Beneficial for urban gardeners who want to save space, the use of garden obelisks is an ideal way to grow vining crops in the vegetable garden. Plant a dozen pole beans around the base of an obelisk and watch the vines twine around it as they reach for the sky. Grow melons on taller garden obelisks, their perfectly shaped, unblemished …

“Leonard Messel” hardy magnolia in bloom. Magnolia trees conjure up images of genteel southern plantations and live oak draped with Spanish moss. Many northern gardeners aren’t aware of the several hardy varieties of magnolia that will grow and thrive as far north as USDA Zone 4. I wasn’t aware of this until I saw a potted magnolia seedling (pictured at …

The lilacs are blooming. All over the city their sweet fragrance permeates the air. Everywhere you look their delicate lilac-colored flowers light up individual lawn specimens or hedgerows of this hardy bush. The brief, two-week period that lilacs bloom every spring almost makes up for freezing winter weather. Almost. Lilacs are classified as Syringa vulgaris and are reliably hardy in …

Lily of the valley is one of the many sweet-scented, spring-blooming flowers. Its Latin name, convallaria majalis, is derived from the Latin convallis, “valley” and majalis, “May-flowering.” It’s the official birth flower for the month of May. I happened upon a patch of the less common pink ones (convallaria majalis Rosea) and stopped to take their picture. The gardener saw …

Morels are the elusive wild mushroom that appears in spring in woodlands from Maine, south to the northern areas of the deep south, west to northern Texas and Oklahoma, and north to Minnesota with a few outposts in the Dakotas. If you’ve never tasted a morel, it’s hard to understand the earnest obsession morel hunters have with finding these wild …

Bridal wreath, or spirea, is a spring flowering shrub that has been planted in cities all over the world. They grow well in almost any soil and once established, tolerate drought and neglect. Their delicate white flowers on graceful branches bloom dependably every spring. Plant spring blooming bridal wreath in partial shade. Prune lightly right after the flowers fade. They …

For most of recorded history, rhubarb was only used medicinally. Native to China, it is thought that Marco Polo brought rhubarb back from his travels there. Rheum rhabarbarum wasn’t used as a food source until the late 1700’s. Its first recorded mention is as a pie plant. Rhubarb was planted extensively by pioneers in the United States and descendants of …