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How to Limit Yard and Garden Watering

How to Limit Yard and Garden Watering Tips to reduce summer watering and still keep plants alive! Mulch around plants with shredded bark mulch, aged compost mix or aged manure mix. If you can't mulch large areas, spread a good layer of straw (not hay as it generally houses weed seeds). Hoeing the ground around the plants brings moisture closer to the grounds surface for the plants. Plant perennials closer together to shade the ground. Use soaker hoses where needed instead of overhead watering. When watering with a garden hose, water only the ground around the base of the plant - not the...

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4 Tips for a Beautiful Summer Garden

4 Tips for a Beautiful Summer Garden With summer just around the corner, it's time to start thinking about how to make your garden beautiful. Here are some tips to help you achieve the perfect garden this summer: Make sure to water your plants regularly and use a good quality fertilizer. Remove any weeds or dead plants to make room for healthy new growth. Consider adding some colorful perennials or small growing shrubs with interesting foliage to add interest to your garden. Plant perennials closer together for soil shading to prevent moisture loss. With these easy to do tips, your garden...

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how to Garden with Physical and Other Limitations

How to Garden with Physical and Other Limitations While Steve and I don't have actual physical limitations, as we age it has become a bit more tiring to keep bent over or squatting for any length of time. Steve does have some arthritis in his back and hands so it can be quite daunting for him. I found this enclosed (as we have deer) raised bed garden for us. (email me if you want the link to the company) It is wonderful and Steve has taken over the plantings. As you can see, we also have artichokes, rhubarb and potatoes in grow bags in the front. But, now let's talk about how to make...

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9 Ground Cover Plants To Keep Weed Growth Down

9 Ground Covering Plants To Help Keep Weed Growth Down For normal garden and landscape areas, these 9 groundcover plants will do the job of helping to keep weed growth down. They are spreaders or light creepers which are not invasive, so easy to keep tamed within your desired areas. Meet our 9 ground covers to help with weeds. Each is growing in small pots and can be planted now. Creeping Phlox - Once creeping phlox blooms in spring, the evergreen foliage begins growing and spreading. Burgundy Glow Ajuga - Spring to early summer spikey flowers make ajuga interesting. Otherwise it spreads...

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11 Plants to Help Keep Deer From Eating Your Tender Plants

11 Plants to Help Keep Deer From Eating Your Tender Plants! I think I should probably call this garden blog post, '11 Plants to Help Keep Deer From Eating Your Beets! You may relate to this story. It's our first summer in our downsized home. For the first time ever, Steve and I have a little raised bed garden. He has done such an amazing job on planting the seeds and everything was growing beautifully until...IT happened! We came home last Thursday evening to find that someone had pulled up all our beet plants. There were a few stragglers hanging in the deer netting and some withering on the...

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