If you’ve noticed a grayish, silky mess ballooning out over the tips of tree branches this month, you’re not imagining…
If your basil plant suddenly looks like it’s trying to become a different species entirely — tall, sparse, with weird…
Walk out to the garden this week and your zucchini or yellow squash leaves might look like someone came through…
If your bearded irises bloomed less enthusiastically this spring than they did a couple years ago, or if the clump…
As our teachers told us in school, houseplants play an important role in freshening air in our home. Humans and animals breathe in oxygen and let out carbon dioxide; plants absorb it and process it back into the oxygen. Another benefit of having houseplants is it can clean toxins in the air and make your…
We all know what a healthy lawn looks like; it is beautifully green, shiny and luxuriant in spite of lawn mowing and the usual activity it endures on a daily basis. This look requires quite a bit of work and time investment because you’ll have to provide all of the nutrients and minerals that your…
A trellis can be a great addition to your garden. They are used to give support to climbing plants, vegetables and flowers, and can be a very attractive feature. Sweet peas love to climb, and look wonderful – a mass of flowers, rainbow bright – trailing on a trellis. Tomatoes, vines, and many plants can…
What is a wheelbarrow for anyway? Wheelbarrows are an old traditional tool for garden work. The typical usage is to load up with various materials to move with less trouble than lifting them up by hand. This can be for removal and placing. This has always been a great tool to have in your garden…
Everyone wants to own a very beautiful and healthy lawn. But to get such a lawn like this, you don’t need to put in as much effort as you might think. Just follow these useful tips on lawn care and maintenance to have your lawn manicured beautifully all year round. Cutting It’s important to have…
While modern greenery and shrubbery maintenance are industries rife with modern cutting tools, there are always classic tools that will always get the job done. Among the most useful of these tools is the billhook. While it is often misunderstood as a knife or hatchet, it is actually a unique tool in a class of…
