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9 Autumn Tips on How to Winterize Your Garden

9 Autumn Tips on How to Winterize Your Garden

If you are an avid gardener, you might be trying to find great ways to prepare your garden for the winter. Using the resources from your own garden will prove to be your greatest asset. Leaves, dead plants, and compost are all you need to help enrich your soil for the upcoming spring. Here are 9 great tips for preparing your garden in the autumn for the winter.

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How to Keep Trees Alive Even In a Drought

How to Keep Trees Alive

Have you lost trees because of the harsh summers?

Already the temperatures are rising and the warmer weather is on its way. Even in southeast Michigan, lawns are turning green again and the ground has thawed.

This is the time of year that many people start to plant new trees or take stock of the trees that didn’t make it through the winter. If you are planning to plant a tree in honor of Earth Day and want to see that tree survive any type of weather even a drought, this article is for you.

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3 Secrets to a Low Maintenance Yard

3 Secrets low maintenance

Would you like to lower the work that your lawn requires?

Are you wondering how to decrease the amount of time you are spending outside on your lawn?

Everyone loves having a beautiful lawn, but the work to get to that beautiful lawn can be frustrating. Irritation can grow, especially when the weather outside starts to get colder, the ground gets harder to work, and you find yourself spending most of your Saturday out in your yard.

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How to Choose the Right Mulch for Your Landscaping – Part 2

How to Choose the Right Mulch for Your Landscaping - Part 2This is the second post in a two part series on mulch. On Monday, we discussed two different types of mulch, inorganic and organic, in How To Choose The Right Mulch For Your Landscaping Part 1.  Today, we will be taking a more in depth look into how choose the right mulch for your landscaping.

Are you trying to decide what type of mulch is best for your landscape?

Designing your landscape can be very exciting from picking out trees and stones, to selecting flowers and of course, mulch. Mulch is becoming more and more prominent. So how do you know what type of mulch is right for your landscape?

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How to Choose the Right Mulch for Your Landscaping – Part 1

Landscaping mulchThis is the beginning of a two part series on mulch. During this series, we will be taking a deeper look at mulch and how to determine the best mulch for your landscape.

Having a difficult time picking out mulch for your landscape?

Mulch. It is rare to see a landscape without mulch these days. The use of mulch is growing and is becoming a popular accent to many yards. Not only can mulch improve the aesthetics of your yard, it can also cut down weeding, increase the fertility of your soil and help to conserve the soil’s moisture.

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