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Train Tree Branches To Grow Where You Want Them
Many people associate pruning with changing the structure of your tree, to fit a different shape or style. However, this is not always the case. Altering the structure of the tree is known as “Tree Training”. This is a much better way to develop ...
How To Keep Your Patio Area Free From Weeds And Moss
No matter whether you have a new or old home, or whether you are a keen gardener, or not, it is almost certain that you have a paved area somewhere. Maybe you want to lay a paved area, or maybe you want to renovate an older area, but one of the most ...
Use Vines To Decorate Your Garden And Hide Eyesores In The Yard
A great way to decorate your garden is with the use of vines. They are very low maintenance and look good in most places. If you’ve got a fence, or separator that is really conspicuous in your green garden, then growing a vine over it can be a quic...
Vegetable Gardening Tips
With the costs of living rising all the time, it may be possible to save money and increase your family’s health at the same time by growing vegetables in your backyard. It’s a good idea to choose your favorite vegetables to grow and pla...
Backyard Gardening Tips
If you have a tiny yard and would like a simple, but well maintained garden, you only need two things - determination and know how. Here are some tips on how to keep your backyard garden looking spruced up and glamorous. 1. Deadheading Keep your b...
Try No Dig Gardening
The idea of no-dig gardening was developed by an Australian named Esther Deans. It was originally developed both as a labor saving idea and a method to rejuvenate badly depleted soil in a vegetable garden. The process involves starting with layers o...
Beautiful Gardens In Summer Require Preparations In Spring
There is plenty to be done in the garden, in preparation for the spring. In the previous article, we were working through a list of things to do. So many people forget, that in order to have beautiful lush gardens in summer, there is work to do at th...
How To Prepare Your Garden For The Spring And Summer
Here in South Africa, we are fast approaching winter. This means people in the northern hemisphere are enjoying Spring and heading in to Summer. Lucky you! I thought I would do an article on gardening preparations for spring, to help those of you, wh...
Gardening Advice
Gardening advice is not that hard to come by. In fact, you can get gardening advice from another gardener, in a gardening catalogue, gardening books, gardening magazines and even on the Internet. Although you will have variations with every plant...
How To Disguise Your Ugly Verges With Indigenous Flowers
If you want to extend your garden, as far as the verge, and it’s usually overgrown, here are some low maintenance tips. To screen the house from the road, you can plant a hedge of plumbago and honeysuckle. A mixture of wild Irises, bulbines, agapan...
How To Conserve Water In Your Garden
Often you don’t appreciate something, until it’s gone! That can really be true with water. Taken for granted when it is plentiful, its importance is truly appreciated in the garden, once it becomes scarce. If you find yourself in a drought, there...
How to Make Your Own Rooting Hormone
When starting a new plant from a leaf, or stem cutting, the cutting will be more likely to form roots and create a new plant, if a rooting hormone is used. While a commercial rooting hormone can be used, there are organic, homemade versions that work...
That Is Life
I thought you would like this look on the lighter side of life. God created the donkey and said to him, “You will be a donkey. You will work untiringly, from sunrise to sunset, every day, carrying burdens on your back. You will eat grass, you will ...
How To Keep Your Garden Patios Free Of Weeds
Whether you have a new home, or an older one and whether you are a keen gardener, or not, it is almost certain that you have a paved area somewhere. Maybe you want to lay a paved area, or maybe you want to renovate an older area, but one of the most ...
How To Prune Those Trees And Bushes
Most plants will remain healthier and stronger, if they are pruned occasionally. Trees will bear more fruit, if they are pruned and plants such as roses, will have more blossoms and not become ‘woody,’ if they are pruned correctly. Bushes...
How To Find The Right Plants For Your Garden
One of the most important rules of creating a garden, is to ensure that you have the right plants, for the right place. There are many plants that will suffer, if they aren’t growing in conditions that are suited to them and by planting in thes...
How To Water Your Plants Correctly
Plants consist of approximately 90% water and therefore it is essential, that they get enough water to survive. Gardening is all about balance and that applies to the amount of water your plants need, to stay healthy. Over watering can be as harmful ...
How To Prevent Waterlogging Your Plants
If you give your plants excess water, or have poor drainage, you will run the risk of water logging them. This will cause the leaves to go a yellow, or brown colour and they will usually drop off. When plants start getting waterlogged, the leaves at ...
21 Gardening Tips
My Dad died on Monday morning the 4th February. This was the end to a long illness and many trips down to Durban to visit him in hospital. Things are not back to normal yet, so rather than let my blog suffer, I have asked a few other garden experts t...
How To Test The Acidity Of Your Garden Soil
It is easy to test the pH of the soil in your garden with the use of a simple and inexpensive test kit. All you need to do with the test kit is take a sample of the soil and mix it with water and then compare the results in the sample to the colors [...
Use Seaweed As A Soil Conditioner
One of the best soil conditioners you can get for your garden is seaweed. What makes seaweed even better for the garden is the fact that it doesn’t need to cost you anything if you are prepared to collect it when it gets washed up on the beach,...
How To Make Gardening Easier With The Right Tools
The range of gardening tools that are available now, is quite outstanding. As gardening is one of the most popular hobbies, there is a huge demand for gardening tools, that can do a better job in the garden, while making that job easier to complete, ...
How To Use Mulch In The Garden
Soil is a main food supply for your plants, but sometimes plants need a little more help and that can be found in the form of fertilizer, or mulch. Mulch is great for plants, simply because you are turning something, that would normally be thrown out...
How To Select The Right Gardening Gloves
Your first contact with the garden, are your hands, unless of course you have invested wisely in garden tools, but even with tools, there is no getting around the fact that you are going to need to get your hands dirty and along with that, you can ex...
Improve Your Health By Gardening
While we are attending to the health of our plants, we too are improving our health both physically and mentally. Even the relatively light work of weeding the garden is good exercise and particularly with elderly people it is an opportunity to get o...
Safety In The Garden
We often overlook the possibility of danger that can lurk in the garden. Everything from rotten limbs on trees that can fall on top of us to slippery surfaces that are covered in moss can present dangers. There are certain times of the year when ther...
Transform Your Garden With Lighting
Garden Lighting is a great way to make use of your garden at night and to add an impressive display for outdoor living. Most garden lighting is very affordable these days and many of the products that are on the market can be installed quite easily b...
Care For Frost Damaged Plants
The appearance of wilting leaves, and leaves that have a water logged look can be a sign that your plant is suffering from frost damage. Another sign of frost damage can be the appearance of brown patches on the leaves. Other signs are shown when the...
Remember To Feed Your Plants
The best time to start feeding your garden is in spring. At this time of the year the ground is still moist from the winter and early spring rains. As the ground warms up with the hotter spring weather you get ideal growing conditions in your garden....
Make Composting The Garden An Easy Task
Isn’t it amazing, that all that waste food, that we can’t, or don’t want in the kitchen, is such a good food source, for the plants in our garden? What makes it better, is the fact that we can grow vegetables in our gardens, cook an...
