Culinary Herb Gardening

There is nothing more pleasing than walking right outside your kitchen door and finding all the spices you'll need for a tasty and fresh dinner. How about picking a bit of rosemary for those lamp chops, or cutting a bit of that fresh dill for that flounder you're baking, or pulling some fresh oregano leaves to add to that spaghetti sauce or snipping some fresh basal for a tomato, mozzarella cheese and basal salad. The availability of fresh herbs can add a real kick to your ordinary dishes and turn them into something special. Fresh herbs are also likely to help you boost your imagination in the kitchen.

Dog Days of Summer - August Gardening tips

Here are a few tips to keep your garden and a few specific problems from getting away from you during the month of August gardening. Your lawn, again usually three things or any combination of them may be the culprit(s) for making your lawn or patches of your lawn turn brown.

Cut Flower Gardening For Beautiful Bouquets

Imagine a never-ending supply of beautiful flowers for your home, bouquets and arrangements to give to friends, flowers to pluck at will for gifts, get-well visits, anniversaries and birthdays. By planting a garden stocked with flowers that happily give up their blooms for your pleasure, you can have fresh flower arrangements in every room in your home all throughout the spring and summer.

Make Dinosaurs in a Dish Garden

These little dinosaurs are easy to make and lots of fun to play with, especially when you plant them a grassy, green environment of their very own.

What Beginning Gardeners Need to Know about Mulching

Mulch is a layer of material spread on top of the soil to conserve soil moisture, discourage the growth of weeds, help prevent erosion and prevent large fluctuations in soil temperature. In other words, mulch modifies the soil micro-climate around your growing plants.

Natural Lawn and Garden Pest Eliminators Found in Your Kitchen

Love your lawn and garden but hate the thought of using dangerous pesticides or herbicides? Try these six proven do-it-yourself pest eliminators – all made from common ingredients that you may have in your kitchen right now!

Build a Raised Planting Bed with a Surrounding Retaining Wall

Having a raised planting bed that rests above the grade of your main lawn for flower or other planting is an appealing landscape feature. Raised plant beds offer a three dimensional appeal to your landscape because of the noticeable transition point from yard to plant bed. Raised planting beds are often sought after in high profile landscapes and yard designs.

Your Own "Kitchen Garden"

A kitchen garden has a charm all its own. There really is nothing to beat the look and taste of fruit and vegetables that you've grown yourself. If you add a few decorative herbs to the mix, there's absolutely no reason why your kitchen garden can't look as good visually as your flower garden.

Rose Pruning Tips

Pruning your roses is one of the most needed and the most annoyingly difficult tasks that goes with proper rose care. It takes a steady hand the proper procedure to ensure the best possible roses that you can get.

Planting Guide For Roses

The art of planting roses doesn’t have to be a complicated thing to do. When you have the right knowledge there is no limit to how beautiful a garden or rosebush that you can create.