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Growing Organic Sweet Potatoes

If you're growing sweet potatoes, the colors range from white to purple to brown to reddish, and the flesh colors range from white and yellow to orange and purple. Read more here!

A Guide to Sprinkler Head Adjustment

Sprinkler head adjustment may be required in the event of a water shortage. By adjusting the heads of their sprinkler system, homeowners can stop wasting water and at the same time, more efficiently water their lawn and landscaping area.

Must Have Fire Pit Accessories

To someone unfamiliar with them, fire pits do not seem as if they need many accessories. Such an outlook would be a major oversight! A fire pit can never be too short on accessories. Fire pit accessor

Repotting an Orchid Can Be Daunting

Repotting an orchid isn't as difficult as I just made it sound. But I will say this: It is sufficiently different from repotting other types of plants.

Pergola Roof Options

A pergola's roof options are decided not only by the aesthetics of the homeowner but what purpose the pergola is to serve. Pergolas are overhead constructions, originally designed to be covered walkways. Today, pergolas serve as shade bearing focal points around patios, hot tubs, decks and even pool

How to Choose Between Pots and Landscaping Beds For Your Plants and Flowers

Regardless of what types of flowers you would like to purchase or plant in your garden, you will be restricted by space, drainage, light, weather and supplies. Perhaps you live in a high rise and only have a small balcony; or you live on a farm and have too much space and prefer to landscape a seclu

Potting Bench for a Great Gardening Experience

Planting trees and flowers may be a relaxing activity. Yet, if you spend the whole day digging the land and pulling out the weeds, you will have an aching back due to long hours of ...

Unwelcome Garden Visitors

Many gardens are visited by wildlife, even in urban areas, and often these visitations are beneficial; wildlife is often responsible for pollination, pest control, and soil enrichment. Sometimes, however, the visits aren't as welcome, and your garden becomes an open buffet for the local fauna.

The Joy Of Mulch

When I first started gardening in Florida, I knew I had hit the flower Valhalla.Paradise, drop a seed and watch it grow section of heaven. What I didnt know was that weeds grow faster. So what do you do if youre allergic to hard work?If sweating makes you weak or something!

Solar Garden Light

For many people, the garden is a place to work and to enjoy the peace of nature. You can enjoy your garden, patio, entry way or any other place with a solar garden light. Why ...

How to Grow Mint Herbs

Mints are a family of plants that is native to the Mediterranean. They are aggressive spreaders that are easy to grow. They may be used fresh to complement meat dishes or salad, or they can be dried and stored for later culinary use. Even beginning gardeners can grow mint with ease.

How to Decorate My Backyard Garden

Your backyard garden can be your own personal oasis. It is a place where you can nurture your growing plant life and immerse yourself in the beauty of outdoors. More than just placing planters and shrubs outside, decorating your garden with lighting and accessories will enhance the beauty of your sp

Could Biodynamic Farming Be Used In Plantations?

Plantations are wide areas of land designated for planting and cultivation of industrial and trading crops like tobacco, cotton, sugar cane and coffee. There are also plantations that exist for wood or timber. These large pieces of estate and farms are most common in tropical and subtropical countri

Growing Climbing Roses

Growing Climbing roses... it's the one exercise that must be included to complete a garden.The climbing rose, also be referred to as ramblers, everblooming roses, pillars, and trailing roses are actua

Frugal Garden Tips For the Gardener on a Budget

With the price of produce going higher and higher these days, a lot of people are planting gardens. However, if you're not careful, a garden can also cost more money than you might expect.

Discovering Different Types of Greenhouses

The greenhouse trend has provided numerous benefits for gardening enthusiasts from its practicality to the possibility of extended harvests. From the small enclosure designed for the backyard to larger structures for crops, there are many types of greenhouses that may be built depending on the purpo

The Connection Between Flowers, Fruit, & Seeds

People eat the food derived from flowering plants. They make up more than half of the known plant kingdom with approximately 250,000 species. The flowering plants are classified as anthopyta or angiosperm, meaning that the seeds are formed within a fleshy case. Flowers, fruits and seeds are the way