Gardening Tips

How to Plant and Care for Lilacs Shrubs

How to Plant and Care for Lilacs Shrubs

Are you looking for an easy to grow shrub?

When you think of spring flowering shrubs, what is the first thing that comes to mind? Your first thought may have been the lilac bush.

Lilacs are a beautiful and easy to grow shrub that are a welcomed addition to any landscape. They are known for their beautiful flowers and aroma that you can smell throughout your entire yard.

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How to Keep Your Trees Alive No Matter the Soil

Rootwell aeration tubes

Do you find that year after year your newly planted trees are dying?

How much money have you spent simply purchasing trees that don’t make it through the winter?

Can you relate with the questions above? You might blame yourself when a tree doesn’t make it or maybe the nursery simply gave you a bad tree or maybe the weather is the reason. My guess is that if you are having trouble keeping your trees alive year after year than it is most likely the soil in your yard.

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How to Plant Asparagus in 3 Easy Steps

How to Plant Asparagus in 3 Easy Steps

What are the benefits to growing your own asparagus?

How do you care for the asparagus after you’ve planted it?

Yesterday’s weather in Southwest Michigan included snow, rain, thunder, and even lightening in some areas. It was almost as if spring and winter were battling it out.

After waking up to temperatures in the mid 30s, it would seem that spring won, but winter is already advancing again. While we wait for spring, let’s take a look at a great cold weather vegetable, asparagus.

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Tomatoes – The Best That 2014 Has To Offer – The Mountain Merit

Fresh tomatoes

Are you looking for the perfect vegetable for your garden?

Do your tomatoes struggle with diseases?

Gardening is a lot to take on, even for greenest thumbs among us. Little things can happen that leave us wondering, “what did I do wrong?”

Have you ever planted something with all the joy and excitement you didn’t even know you had for a little plant? Have you ever watched that same plant that stored all your hope stop budding, not grow at all or become so diseased that it is impossible to eat?

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7 Top Tips for Growing and Caring for a Rose Garden

7 Top Tips for Growing and Caring for a Rose Garden

Have you always dreamed of growing a rose garden?

Would you love to have fresh roses on your kitchen table all summer long?

Roses are the pride and joy for many gardeners. The reason why they are is that roses can be tricky. Today, we would like to make growing and caring for roses easy by sharing 7 of the top tips that we have found beneficial in growing and caring for a rose garden.

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February Gardening Tips and Tricks

February Gardening Tips

Does all this snow have you dreaming of Spring?

Wondering what you can do in your garden this month?

Depending on where you live, it might be time to get back outside and into the garden. Or, at least it might be time to start thinking about getting back into the garden. Today, we wanted to share some great tips and tricks for your garden this month.

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Spring Garden Planning – 4 Tips When Planning Your Spring Garden

Spring Garden Planning

With this being one of the coldest winters that I can remember and more snow on the way, I couldn’t help but find myself starting to think of spring this week. Today, we would like to share with you some ways to start preparing for this spring. Spring will come eventually, and just like you, I want to be ready. It is not too early to start your spring garden planning.

4 Tips for Planning Your Spring Garden

The four tips below will help you start planning your spring garden. Although you may have a snow covered landscape, it is not too early to start planning.

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3 Orchids That Are Easy to Grow Indoors

Moth Orchid

Moth Orchid

Do the gray winter skies have you looking to add a little color indoors?

Are you looking for a houseplant that is hard to kill?

Today, the wind chill has it feeling like -14 degrees outside. All this cold weather and gray skies may have you thinking about adding a little color indoors. There is no better way to do that than by introducing a few good orchids into your home.

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How to Propagate Roses with Potatoes

How to Propagate Roses with Potatoes

How to Propagate Roses with Potatoes

Are you looking for a simple way to reproduce your favorite roses?

Would you love to be able to gift your roses?

Propagation of a plant is the process of creating new plants from a variety of different plant sources. Believe it or not, you can use a potato to propagate roses. Today, we would like to offer you a simple how-to on using potatoes to propagate your roses.

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