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How to Manage Weeds in the Garden
Take advantage of modern research in weed biology to manage unwanted weeds without back breaking labour or environmentally unfriendly herbicides.
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Bee Balm in the Landscape
If you have a damp spot in the yard, fill it with bee balm. Then, in early summer, feast your eyes on the amazing display of flowers produced by the showiest member of the mint family.
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Tips for Designing a Wildlife Pond
There are several key points for a successful wildlife pond.
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Learn About Growing Sweet Peas
The most popular variety of sweet pea, Lathyrus odoratus, lives up well to its name. Odoratus is Latin for 'well-scented', and these flowers have been prized by gardeners for their delicious fragrance for centuries.
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Grow Your Own Fruit, Vegetables and Herbs
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Companion Planting Strategies
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Eco-Friendly and Effective Pest Control for Edible Crops
The presence of pests in the vegetable patch is often due to simple cultivation errors. Making use of a few tricks of the trade during selection and planting will help you to keep your vegetables healthy and save you the trouble of subsequent pest control.
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Backyard Landscaping Ideas for Multipurpose Plants
Planting certain species close together can improve pollination and fertility of plants, and also reduce pest or disease problems. A widely used companion-planting scheme is cultivating flowers such as pot marigolds (Calendula) and gaillardia, which are known to be attractive to bees and other beneficial insects, next to plants that rely on insects for pollination.
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The Gardener's Guide to Lilies
Stately lily plants, with their exotic flower forms and their great variety in colour and size, add a dramatic accent to the summer garden.
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How to Get Rid of Mosquitoes in your Landscape
Mosquitoes were bad enough when they just made you itch. Now that some of them carry the West Nile virus, their bite can even be deadly in rare cases.
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How to Evaluate a Damaged Lawn
A damaged lawn can be treated with some good old tender, love and care. Here, we'll look at how to evaluate a damaged lawn in order to determine what kind of repairs need to be made.
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How to Attract Wildlife to Your Landscape
A mere 100 years ago, the greater portion of our landscape was farmland. There were wood lots, hedgerows, and weedy areas between fields where birds and other wildlife could find the food and cover they needed to survive, says Karen Williams, owner of Flora for Fauna in Woodbine, New Jersey. She also serves as a consultant to the Cape May Stopover Project, whose long-term goal is increasing the habitat available for migrating birds.
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First Aid for Your Lawn
Even though the warmer days are coming to an end it’s not too late to condition an existing lawn or install a new one.
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Weed Control in the Landscape: Taking Care of Weed Barriers
Landscaping fabric and other artificial weed barriers are effective alternatives to herbicides, but can cause new problems and still fail to prevent weed growth in the long run.
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