A successful home garden demands a normal care routine, including pruning. Young trees particularly need pruning for proper growth, but even older fruit trees also require routine branch removal to thrive. Pruning serves functional and aesthetic purposes. Most fruit tree…
As you mow or walk on your lawn, the soil below the grass gets compacted. This makes it hard for significant nutrients, air and water to get to your lawn’s roots, which in turn weakens the grass and raises the…
Working with an area which has poor drainage is a problem many gardeners do not wish to face. Add in how the place is shaded and some would only stop trying. But you may use such circumstances to your advantage…
Droopy leaves, whether discolored or even still bright green, signals an issue in the tomato garden. Most wilt issues result from improper watering and can be easily cured with prompt irrigation. Insects and diseases may also weaken tomato crops and…
Calcium is one of the trace elements that help all plants grow, including strawberries (CFragaria spp*. , U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 3 to 10). The plants thrive in slightly acidic soil, a low-pH environment that tends to…
Few plants can match ferns for graceful green leaves, called fronds, that comprise of small leaflets in different shapes and sizes. Mostly tropical or subtropical plants, ferns thrive in lower temperatures and higher humidity, growing as houseplants in all regions…
Mother Nature apparently hates empty spaces, so she does her best to fill in patches of bare soil with plants. Moss is one of the common filter plants for shady, damp spaces, and it spreads across sparse areas as thick,…
The flip-and-sew process — sometimes called quilt-as-you-go — relies on time-honored foundation piecing techniques. Flip and sew, a good approach to use fabric scraps, allows you to stitch a patchwork surface layer and then sew or quilt the surface to…
Every time you trigger the footrest or perhaps just of your recliner sink into the seat, you might or might not feel that the seat scoot forth or back a bit on your flooring. However, over time, these tiny movements…