Garden and Yard

The History of the Chelsea Clock Company

2010-08-23T10:52:00.002-05:00

The beautiful Chelsea Clocks have been around for a long time and with a fascinating history. You can collect them as antiques or buy new Chelsea clocks or barometers. They make a beautiful addition to any home or office.

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How to Double the Size of Your Garden with Vertical Gardening

2010-07-28T21:51:00.003-05:00

Do you wish you had more room for a bigger garden. You can double the size of your garden and grow more vegetables with what is called a vertical gardening. With a vertical garden using a trellis, you can actually double the size of your garden without digging up more of your yard.

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Brighten Up Your Yard with Ornamental Grass

2010-04-19T20:13:00.002-05:00

Ornamental grass can add amazing color and movement to your yard. Some ornamental grasses have flowers and others have colorful leaves or tassel’s that wave in the breeze. You can choose from grass that is steel blue, silver, white, yellow, orange, bright red and chartreuse in color.

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How to Plant and Care for a Peach Tree

2010-03-14T21:29:00.003-05:00

Peaches might be the best tasting fruit and everyone waits all year for peach season. Growing your own peach tree is not hard. Look down almost any street and you can see peach trees. A Peach tree can make a beautiful addition to your yard.

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How to Keep Woodpeckers From Damaging Your House

2010-03-05T16:30:00.003-06:00

Have you ever been jarred awake at 6 AM with what sounded like someone had a jackhammer on your roof. Woodpeckers drumming and hammering away at the metal vent pipes on your roof can be quite an alarm clock. There are numerous ideas you can try to stop the woodpeckers from damaging your house.

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Fall Garden Cleanup Tips

2009-09-30T11:42:00.004-05:00

The summer garden season is coming to an end. There are numerous things you can do to clean your garden and get the garden ready for next year. What you do in your garden this fall can help the garden next year.

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How to help your garden after a hailstorm

2009-07-04T08:09:00.002-05:00

You plant your garden in May, and by June it is looking perfect. The first blooms are on the peppers and tomatoes already. The nice afternoon showers are watering your garden and then it happens. An intense hailstorm hits and you get home and look at the hail piled in your garden like snow. Now what do you do?

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Container gardening in a nutshell

2009-05-05T20:38:00.000-05:00

You love growing herbs and vegetables and you love to eat freshly picked vegetables that you have grown yourself. But you don’t have a backyard, you might just have a nice patio or balcony and you still want to grow some vegetables.

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How to get rid of bindweed

2009-04-25T19:31:00.000-05:00

This is one weed that can kill your flowers and vegetables. Bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis) also known as wild morning glory grows as a vine and will climb up your plants and strangle them. Bindweed starts in a small clump by itself and in a short time it will start growing in vines along the ground and up anything it encounters.

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How to save a dying tree

2009-04-25T19:24:00.000-05:00

The long and dry winter is coming to an end and you start looking around the yard. You’re noticing that some of the trees aren’t looking so well. Evergreens especially can start to look brown and start dropping their needles.
The summer is hot and there is a drought and your trees look it. You could root-feed your trees.

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Natural ways to get rid of garden bugs and weeds

2009-04-25T19:12:00.000-05:00

There are good pests and there are bad pests in your garden. Some years it just seems like it’s a never-ending battle, you get rid of one bug and then over there something is eating all your green beans. Then you have the weeds that are actually choking the life out of your beautiful garden. There are a number of natural organic ways to control these pests.

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How to get rid of wasps and yellow jackets

2009-04-25T19:02:00.000-05:00

Now that summer is almost here you’re thinking about finally being able to sit outside and enjoy the nice weather and yard. Sounds great until you start remembering some of last summer’s problems, like the times the yellow jackets wouldn’t leave you alone.

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Tomato growing tips

2009-04-25T18:56:00.000-05:00

Tomatoes are not hard to grow, though there are some things you need to do and watch out for. Usually the hardest thing for me about growing tomatoes is choosing which varieties I want each year since there are so many. Here are some tips for growing tomatoes.

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Landscaping ideas for your front yard

2009-04-25T18:40:00.000-05:00

There always seems to be a part of your yard you either can’t get grass to grow, keep green, keep from burning or do anything with. The grass along the cement like a sidewalk or driveway is hot and is always drier than the rest of the lawn. There are many ways to make the areas along your sidewalk and driveway look nice.

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How to make compost

2009-04-25T18:36:00.000-05:00

Making your own compost is easy, fun and very useful. You don’t have to have a vegetable garden to make compost since compost is very helpful for all of your flowers as well.
Composting also makes you feel like you’re doing something helpful for the dirt and the planet since much of what you put in the compost would end up in the trash anyway, your vegetables and flowers will be much better with your own compost around them.

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Gardening for small spaces

2009-04-25T18:16:00.000-05:00

Gardening is fun, healthy and can save money by growing your own food. Reading all the garden magazines in the early spring can be frustrating with all the pictures of huge areas people have to garden as if we all have that much space. Most of us do not have much space at all and some only have a patio. Here are a couple of ideas for small areas where you can garden.

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How to start your own vegetable garden

2009-04-25T18:06:00.000-05:00

It’s never too early to start thinking about your new garden. Even before the ground begins to thaw and become workable you can start planning your vegetable garden. Read through seed catalogs about the different vegetables and get an idea of which plants you might want. Here are some tips to starting your vegetable garden.

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How to start plants from seed

2009-04-25T16:57:00.000-05:00

When you buy seeds in packets there are going to be a lot of seeds, don’t feel you have to plant them all or you’ll have so many plants you will be asking every friend, relative and neighbor if they want some.

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How to attract butterflies, humming birds and birds to your garden

2009-04-25T16:28:00.000-05:00

Have you ever noticed how butterflies in your yard seem to fly around certain flowers, and sometimes those aren’t the flowers in your garden. Butterflies, hummingbirds and birds like certain flowers and certain areas of a yard. Growing flowers and plants that attract them is easy, just pick the right flowers and pick the right spot in your yard.

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