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A roof garden makes your home greener

June 07, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Garden

Artist Scota Rakison has one of the most enviable views in London. From the roof terrace of her Barnes house she can see a great, wide lazy bend of the Thames, and on the other side, a fringe of acid-green willows, boathouses and the well-kept grass of the Civil Service playing fields.
It is the more [...]

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Deadline for spring gardening chores approaching rapidly

June 03, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Garden

“Do now or don’t do” time has arrived for central U.S. residents who work in their yard and garden.
“June 1 is typically a good deadline to be finished with any spring plantings–annuals, perennials, shrubs and trees,” said Emily Nolting, horticulturist with Kansas State University Research and Extension. “Of course, planting can continue well into June. [...]

Deadline for spring gardening chores approaching rapidly

June 02, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Garden

“Do now or don’t do” time has arrived for central U.S. residents who work in their yard and garden.
“June 1 is typically a good deadline to be finished with any spring plantings–annuals, perennials, shrubs and trees,” said Emily Nolting, horticulturist with Kansas State University Research and Extension. “Of course, planting can continue well into June. [...]

Market growing for organic nutrients

May 11, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Garden

WASHINGTON As a kid in Texas, Virginia Harmon noticed the trees and shrubs that grew downwind from her grandfather’s cattle feed mill.
Alfalfa meal and other goodies being processed for the steers drifted to those plants, and it turned out that the nutrients were good for them, too. As consumers have been drawn to organics in [...]

Giving your garden a spring checkup

April 19, 2007 By: Momoy Category: Garden

After coming home from a weekend at the coast, I took a stroll through our garden to see what had come up or had started to bloom and what needed doing. Needless to say, the second list was longer than the first. That’s why I think you may want to share both, the first for [...]

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Your winter garden should have a purpose

This is the time of year when a garden really proves it mettle. Are shrub and perennial borders still boast enticing color via foliage, flowers or berries? Are there areas where

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Once the flowers are all planted, water them thoroughly and make sure the soil stays moist till they're established. Most annuals and perennials can get through a season with just

Herbs for Beginning Gardeners

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Plant of the week: Nemesia Flowering plant

The plant: Voted by the National Home Gardening Club as its favorite plant in 2006 and selected by Sunset’s Garden Guide as one of the top five no-fail annual plants,

PLANTING PERENNIALS

Soil Preparation Good soil preparation is extremely important for perennials, since they may be in place for many years. Deeply spade the beds to a depth of eight to 10 inches.
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