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When to fertilize your yard.

15 Jun

As most of you know it is a huge effort to make your lawn perfect. One of the best things you can do is fertilize your grass at least once or twice a year. There is some debate over when you should fertilize though.

Southern Lawn Care: The timing of fertilizing your yard is based on where you live. Shop for fertilizer that has three active compontents: nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium. Nitrogen will help to keep your grass green, if you purchase a fertilizer with higher amounts of nitrogen, the best time to fertilize is in the fall in warmer parts of the country. You will want to fertilize in the fall as temperatures begin to go below 70 degrees if you are using a phosphorous based fertilizer. This will assist in growing a strong root system. Potassium will assist in the health and heartiness of your lawn. Some manufacturers offer mixtures based on where you live.

Northern Lawn Care: In cooler regions, there are two key periods for fertilizer: mid spring when the last frost is over and early fall when temperatures get below 70 degrees. Fertilizing at these times of the year will assist you in less weeds so that you don’t have to waste money feeding them as well.

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More ideas to landscape small yards.

09 Jun

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Landscaping a small yard.

07 Jun

If you have a small yard that you are going to landscape, you do not have to lose all landscape ideas and designs. Whether you have a small front yard or a small back yard, there are a variety of things you can do to make your yard look great if you use the space wisely. The key to a great yard, is a planned design, so take the time to plan.

Remember to be realistic, if your yard is small, large rocks or boulders or a large pond is not doable. However, there are things that you can do to make your yard look beautiful without all those large things.

Since space is limited, consider building up raised flower beds for your plants. One of the positive things about small yards is that you can landscape and save money in the process. Another idea for small yards is plants in containers. Container gardening is a great way to maximize space and it can be moved around for parties when needed. Planters today have their own design flare and come in all different sizes and shapes.

Colors can “effect” the space also. Colors like blue can make a space appear larger and plants like evergreens offer a yard a feeling of largeness. Blue spruce and Alberta pine are great examples.

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An environmentally friendly way to rid your garden of bugs.

03 Jun

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Integrated Pest Management (IPM) websites.

02 Jun

Once you figure out that you have a fungus in your garden, you should not overreact. You do not want to reach for a spray bottle, instead you need to practice Integrated Pest Management (IPM). This approach to management of pests involves evaluation, monitoring, control and prevention. You need to understand and accept damage that is only cosmetic versus damage which may kill your plants. Figuring out which is which is not easy though.

The University of Maryland has a website to assist in identifying what’s going on in your garden which is the HGIC Plant Diagnostic Website. This site takes you through a series of steps to help identify the pests. Take a look at the infected plants. You will find a non-chemical approach to treating the pests and guidelines for when to use methods that may be less toxic.

It will also guide you to determine damage and not to jump to conclusions. For instance, sooty mold on a plant can look like a classic fungal infection. You will need to find out where the infection came from instead of jumping to conclusions.

Some gardeners like to make up their own homemade concoctions for treating the fungus and pests. Fine Gardening website called 355 Pest and Disease Remedies which discusses common products that most have in medicine cabinets or pantry. There is use for a chamomile tea to treat fungus.

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