Solar Powered Landscape Lighting - Your Best Backyard Lighting Option
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Summer is coming and you are going to want to spend as much time outside as possible. Maybe you might be throwing a big Fourth of July party or perhaps you are planning smaller parties over the course of the warmer months. Your home and your yard must be appealing to your guests in order [...]
Don’t Let Your Plants Droop, Save Them With Irrigation Today
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Summer may seem really far away, but if you look a little closer, past the grey skies you may notice that in the garden some green is slowly appearing. Could it possibly be spring? To be honest it is hard to tell with the current climate being so sporadic but there are shoots and little [...]
How To Grow And Care For A Heather Plant
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Heather plants are hardy, colorful,low-growing perennial shrubs native to the heaths, moors, and woodlands or Europe and Asia Minor.Well suited to marginal pastures, heathers are low-maintenance plants that can thrive in acidic soil with little fertilizer in and near-drought conditions.
The evergreen plants provide year-round displays of color from flowers and leaves. Depending on the [...]
Make Money from Your Garden with a CSA
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First, what is community supported agriculture? The simplest way to explain this might be to consider CSA as ’subscription farming’. In other words, a group of people agree to pay the gardener for a season’s worth of fresh produce, often paying in advance for the season. The gardener then grows the veggies for the group.
So [...]
How To Start Your Own Community Supported Agriculture Market Garden
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If you are a gardener, there’s a great way generate some additional income; start a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) market garden! This article will explain the how to start making money from your garden with a CSA.
The Community Supported Agriculture model
If you have heard of CSA, you are probably aware that it is a [...]
Inexpensive Landscape Lighting with Tiki Torches
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The weather is finally easing its way to warm and that always means one thing for me; more time spent in the garden department at our local hardware store. Last year around this time I was looking into new fencing and decorative containers for flowers. This year I find myself thinking about the next evolutions [...]
Choosing the Perfect Contemporary Garden Furniture
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Creating an elegant, contemporary garden, patio or porch can be a bit intimidating. What type of materials should you look for? What materials stand the test of time? Dressing your outdoor living area up for warm weather shouldn’t be a stressful ordeal. Take your time and enjoy shopping around. Chances are you already have something [...]
Choosing a Solar Garden Fountain
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Solar garden fountains are very easy to set up and are convenient as they do not need wiring from a power source. Instead photovoltaic cells in the solar power panels, either built into the the fountain or placed separately, collect energy from the sun during the day to power the fountain’s pump.
Choosing a Solar Garden [...]
Tips On Using Powered Garden Tools
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Some people enjoy the sweat and the work out from using manual garden tools while others prefer the ease of usage and speed conferred by powered garden tools. The size of your garden will determine the type of tools you need. There is no point getting big powered tools for a small lawn. Powered tools [...]
Turning to Organic Gardening
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Organic gardening is a chemical free and earth friendly method of gardening. Organic gardening and conventional gardening differ on how they control pests and nourish the soil. Conventional gardening uses chemical pesticides and chemical fertilizers while organic gardens use organic means of enriching the soil and organic weed killers and fertilizers.
Organic gardens follow natural [...]