Gardeners the world over will know that there is no set date for a gardening job, remember temperatures vary according to where you live, also each year is different, some warmer and some colder, although it is now becoming clear the trend is towards warmer, and garden jobs in February will depend on local conditions.
Have you a back garden that you ignore for all but two of the sunnier afternoons of the year, only to venture out to sit amongst out of control bushes and overgrown weeds? If so, this article is just for you as you learn the benefits of looking after your back garden. Trimming. Trees in
Taking care of a garden is an extremely rewarding pastime, and will bring a great deal of rewards. Regardless of whether it is made of vegetables or flowers, there’s undoubtedly some thing highly rewarding about caring for a plants in garden. This post has a lot of excellent assistance about gardening, and it’ll prove very
A garden is an amazing extension to home that not just gives you a better place to sit, read and relax but also help you remain close to the nature. Like humans, plants also need water to grow and survive; hence to maintain a garden for commercial purposes it is important to provide proper water
For anyone thinking of starting organic gardening adventure, correct and proper soil preparation is the foundation on which the organic garden is built. You cannot afford to get it wrong. Soil pH testing. Step one to prepare your organic garden’s soil is basically to test it to see what you have to work with. Use
When should you start preparing your rose garden for the onset of spring and summer? Well, if you live in an area where you can start seeing the promise of spring in late March or early April, then you’re an “early spring” rose gardener. However, if you live where March and April still brings icy
When planting potted perennial bushes and flowers it is important to first select a compatible location based on the type of garden plant you are planting. To determine this, either look at the plant’s tag or inquire with the nursery where you are purchasing the garden flower or bush to find out whether the plant
In favourable areas late winter can be almost spring-like, especially in a mild period, but don’t be lulled into sowing and planting outdoors too soon. If the weather turns cold, seeds will not germinate, and seedlings and plants may receive such a check to their growth that they do not do as well as those
New gardeners are so often put off gardening at the thought that it has to involve hours and hours of hard work in their garden. The popular idea of a low-maintenance garden is one of covering the space with decking and gravel, planted with a few grasses and pots of evergreens. When you consider the
Without water a house plant must die. This may take place in a single day in the case of a seeding in sandy soil, or it may take months if the plant has fleshy leaves. But in the end the result is always the same. Because of this obvious fact many gardener beginners give daily
Even the most dedicated maintenance cannot make a large tree suitable for a small garden, and there is a list of smaller garden trees that are ideally suited to such a calling. All of them are rated by the RHS as H4, or ‘hardy’ so will be suitable for most gardens, and all are quite
Winter has its ups and downs, whilst we’re treated with festive cheer and an excuse to eat all the food we can stomach, we must also suffer cold weather and darkened days. The flower garden too can produce a surprising number of blooms during the winter months, with everything from jasmine to aconites around to
