When winter is ending and spring is around the corner, it’s time to start planning your fertilizing and lawn care schedule for optimal growth. When you fertilize your lawn correctly, you’ll keep it dark green and growing all through summer. But when do you start to fertilize your lawn, and how often do you do …
There is almost no household in the United States (and many other countries, for that matter) without paper towels. Our lives would seemingly come to a standstill without them. And it is impossible to imagine life without paper towels if you have kids or pets. For those of you who are always looking for greens and …
Do you find yourself looking over to your neighbor’s thick, green and healthy lawn with envy? If your turf is looking yellow, weak and full of weeds, you’ll need to fix some things in your lawn care to get it back to perfectly green. Luckily, it’s not too hard to get your lawn back to …
Compost accelerators and compost starters help improve the quality of the compost from your compost pile by speeding up the breakdown of organic matter i.e. speeding up the composting process in the pile. Micro-organisms are the key element in the decomposition process of a compost pile and to survive they need two things — carbon …
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The location of your compost bin should be a prime consideration in your home-composting scheme. Ideally, compost bins/piles/heaps should be situated in a place that’s both convenient to the composter themselves and unobtrusive to others. While these two needs are often at cross-purposes, it’s usually possible to find a satisfactory spot in most backyards. In …
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Lush grass is a welcome addition to most gardens, but sometimes may cause more harm than good, especially when it grows uninvited in your vegetable garden. But before revealing the tips on how to get rid of grass in vegetable gardens, it is highly important to understand the key reasons why you should eliminate grass …
Mint is a versatile herb in that it offers a plethora of culinary, nutritional, and medicinal benefits. Mint is also a great addition to teas and other drinks, as a condiment in Middle Eastern and Thai dishes, and a wonderful ingredient for aromatherapy starting from spearmint and peppermint to pineapple and chocolate mint.
Landscape rocks, or just rocks in your yard, can be a great huge pain in the rear when left unattended. This is particularly annoying when you decide to grow a lawn or a garden. The first step towards improving a landscape is to remove these rocks. Depending on the size, you will need to improvise. …
It is nothing catastrophic if you take basic precautions. As the name suggests, wood mites are a rather harmless group of bugs that can be found in damp and old pieces of wood. They tend to bother us, humans, only if we own snakes or love cigars. But for the sake of hygiene, it is good to get …
For most homeowners, the sight of a stack of leaves may not be appealing to the eyes, and most actually consider them a helluva nuisance, owing mostly to the additional yard work and the daunting effort of raking them up. Contrarily, there are those avid gardeners who regard a pile of leaves, aka ‘leaf litter’, …
