Gardening Information

By using the simple technique of bundling ornamental grasses before cutting them back, spring cleaning ornamental grasses won’t mean getting a mess of grass blades all over your garden. Here are 3 easy steps for cutting back ornamental grasses easily.

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Give yourself an advantage when dividing your perennial flowers by watering them well before you lift them out of the ground. Most perennial flowers will need to be divided to remain vigorous and continue blooming season after season. Division of perennials is an easily mastered gardening technique that is good for the plants and your garden.

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The basics of good garden design can be used effectively in container gardens.

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Moss looks wonderful in the garden, especially on rocks and rock walls. It gives any garden a sense of age and weight. Getting moss to grow on rocks or on the ground in your garden simply requires you give the moss the growing conditions it needs and have some patience while it gets established.

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Making over a garden can become necessary when the garden becomes overgrown or when site conditions, like lighting, change. Sometimes gardeners simply want to try creating a new garden. Here is some advice for taking a look at where you are with your garden plans and reassessing what you can do to capitalize on what you have.

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Tomato bounty growing in a Massachusetts vegetable garden.

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Once solution to using color in the garden is to limit yourself to pastels. Pastels are always well behaved and work well with each other.

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Perhaps the easiest way to regain control of your garden is to limit the colors you use in it. This is a display garden, so the impact of all this color is intentional, but if this were someone’s home border, exuberance quickly changes to over stimulation.

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You’ve had your garden soil tested and you’ve been told it’s acidic. Now what?

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Garlic is very easy to grow in the home garden. There are hundreds of garlic varieties and the only way you are gong to get to taste them is if you grow them yourself. Read on to learn what types of garlic to grow and how to grow and store your garlic.

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