Growing Salad as a Cover Crop

Growing Your Own Garden offers more than a bounty of fresh vegetables. If you feel like you just don’t have the time or space – Here are 7 great reasons to find a way to grow your own food.

A life without trees is indeed a “dead” life. Green – the color of growth and prosperity – definitely stands for lush and lively trees. However, it needs some amount of care, love and maintenance. Contact a professional tree surgeon to help you have a healthier landscape.

Installing a stone retaining wall on your property can improve the functionality of your yard, enhance your property’s value and curb appeal, and distinguish your landscape from the others in your neighborhood. There is a wide range of stone materials and construction techniques to choose from when designing one for your property, so be sure to consider the location, purpose, and style that best fits your landscape’s needs. Each retaining wall is unique, but here are the two basic methods that are used.

Container gardening is an agricultural activity that allows you to grow various plant species in different types of containers for food or aesthetics. Choosing the right container can however be difficult because…

Spring planting is in full swing. Prepare and plant properly now and reap the rewards in summer.

For our own good, we need to protect this agriculturally important species. As natural pollinators, honey bees are a crucial link in food crop production, responsible for as much as eighty percent of the output. With the decline of bumblebees and other native pollinators, this link has become even more important. Without Honey Bees to fill in the gap we would experience significant crop failures and food shortages.

This is the year you can grow the best garden ever, and you can start today! I know that that may seem a bit of a boast, but I can assure you that it is very doable.

The flavor and unique characteristics from heirloom varieties of organic Burpee’s Matchless Tomatoes grown from seeds continue to make them a popular choice for home gardeners today as in the past. Choosing varieties of heirlooms to suit individual growing conditions will create the best results.

If you are blighted with an overgrown lawn and garden and wish to have it transformed into a pleasing and beautiful space, you might want to look at the outside lawn care services. There is a range of advantages for using a professional landscape gardener who are mindful of how to care for the lawn to get the very best from it.

The first recorded use of thyme actually occurred in ancient Egypt, when thyme added its unique scent to the embalming bandages. The Romans depended on thyme to lend its unique scent to cheese and liqueurs. During the middle ages, thyme was placed in pillow and used as a sleeping aid. Supposedly, this practice would also ward off nightmares.

The life experiences that developed my skills and values that I use today are a core part of my lawn care business. You will see how my early experiences fit into the concepts of excellence, creativity, and industry that I utilize in my lawn care business.

Selectively pruning your Hollies and Boxwoods with basic hand tools is easier than shearing with gas tools, plus it’s better for the overall health of the plants. Here are a few basics every gardener should know about selective pruning as it relates to Hollies and Boxwoods.