Choose The Right Shade Growing Plants
If you’re a new gardener you might think that shade growing is an uphill battle. I’m here to tell you that shade gardens can be a beautiful, lush, peaceful addition to your landscape. As someone who has been gardening in the shade of huge trees for more than 20 years, I know that shade growing is entirely possible. With some careful planning and patience you can create a shade garden to be proud of.
Fall Lawns Call For Seed Feed And Weed
Selecting Stock Plants – September is a good time to begin making cuttings for starting next year’s plants. Lantana cuttings should be made from seasoned wood before any lush growth occurs after the fall rains. If the cutting wood is soft, the cuttings will rot or blast instead of developing roots. The colorful Jacob’s coat (Alternanthera) can be kept as cuttings over winter as can other types of herbaceous plants such as hibiscus, geraniums, coleus, ice plant, sultana and wandering Jew. By September, these plants are conditioned properly for taking of cuttings.
How To Layer Your Landscaping
Any yard landscape gardening decisions that are made should definitely take into consideration the major part that rainwater and snowfall will play. You will want to carefully plan your garden landscaping. Go get some books on the subject from the local library. Such garden landscaping books will guide you through the main methods of garden landscaping, which could save your garden from permanent disaster!
Visual Landscape Highlights
Grades in the landscape can create visual challenges, grades of over 5 percent are too steep for comfort or for best appearance. Where there are such differences in grade on a small lot you should put in steps and a terraced slope or retaining wall to connect the two levels.
Maintaining Your Woodworking Equipment Is Easy
Any woodworker would know that he is only as good as his tools. It is important therefore to keep them in pristine and in good condition.
Northern Gardeners Checklist For February
Tender bulbs and tubers that are in storage for the winter should be given an inspection in February. Cannas, dahlias and tuberous begonias that have been packed in a storage material (sand, peat moss, vermiculite, etc.) should be examined for evidences of insects and diseases and to ascertain whether or not the packing medium has become too dry.
