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How to Grow Eggplant in Your Garden
Eggplant is amongst one of the easiest vegetables to grow in your garden. This warm-seaon crop ranks as of the...
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Gardening Tips for Dry, Free-Draining Soil
On free-draining soils you can grow a range of plants that are not happy in moist conditions. Since...
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Landscape Design: Make Your Own Water Garden
The sight and sound of water, the colourful fish and varied plants water can support, and the vitality of the...
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How to Make Your Home More Energy Efficient
Transform your home's energy profile and save on electricity and heating with these 10 handy tips to make your home...
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Planning Your Vegetable Patch for Your Garden
Designing your vegetable garden can be a fun and exciting task! Before you get rolling with your favourite and dream...
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How to Grow Strawberries in Your Garden
The most landscape-friendly of fruits, strawberries grow wild in temperate regions across America and Europe.Today's cultivated varieties are...
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Garden Tips: Removing Leaves from Your Landscape
Raking may not be everyone's favourite task but it will benefit your landscape and garden in the long...
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How to Build a Stylish Gravel Garden For Your Landscape
Gravel gardens are low-maintenance and clean. There's no worry about having to weed it or mow it; it just simple...
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Adding an Arbour or Pergola to Your Garden
Gardeners have used arches, arbours, and pergolas to add interest and height to gardens since the time of...
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Types of Plant Beds and Borders for Your Garden Landscape
Beds and borders fall loosely into four categories: single, herbaceous, shrub and mixed. The style of border you...
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Garden Design From a Florist’s Perspective
The garden of her Surrey home is dotted with pots at every turn: some decorative, some functional, some...
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Tips for Gardening with Children
If you have a child in your life who's interested in growing plants, make a space in the...
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Landscaping Tips: Things to Know about Boundary Walls
A boundary wall shelters the garden from strong and cold winds and presents a marvellous opportunity for growing...
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How to Hand Weed Your Garden
Weeding a garden can be one of the most dreaded tasks a gardener faces. Because it's so unpleasant many gardeners...
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Growing Apples: Problem Signs and Symptoms to Watch for
The majority of apple pests can be controlled with one dormant spray plus the controls specified in the...
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Growing Plums: Common Plum Problems
There are over a hundred varieties of plums currently growing in Canada. Some of these are commerical, others are experimental...
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How to Grow Peas in Your Garden
Peas are one of the prime examples of the taste difference between bought and fresh from the garden. Normally peas...
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Landscape Design: Your Own Japanese Garden
Japanese culture is known for its elegant appreciation for nature and simplicty. If you look closely you'll notice that their...
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Make Your Own City Garden
The concrete paving behind her city-centre basement flat is not quite 8m wide and 5.5m long (26x18ft), but...
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A Look at the Different Types of Roses
There are a variety of rose types that you can plant in your garden. From popular to picky the styles...
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Landscape and Garden Planning: Where to Put Your Garden for Maximum Yield
Where should you put your garden? It's suggested that you choose a place that gets the most sun throughout the...
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Top Tips for Garden Landscape Planning
Before getting started on a new garden landscape, it's best to plan your project on paper first. You...
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Landscaping Basics: Planting Trees, Shrubs & Hedges
Planting trees, shrubs or hedges is a great way to add privacy and beauty to your landscape. Below are some...
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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...
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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...
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10 DIY Mirror Cleaner Tips
These terrific DIY mirror cleaning tips guarantee clean bathroom mirrors, glass tables and fireplace doors with ease.
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How to Stack Your Own Stone Wall
A well-built wall can last for centuries and roadside boundaries throughout Europe are solid testament to simple stacking techniques.They were...
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What Your House Colour Says About You
The hues chosen for a room's walls and ceiling can help determine whether your interior design is a hit or...
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Funny Texts From Parents Gone Bad
Have a laugh at these hilarious real-life texts taken from the cellphones of parents.