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Why Fertilize Your Lawn in Spring?
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Fertilizing your lawn in the spring helps speed up the recovery process from winter damage, as well as strengthen your lawn's roots for the future growing season. Spring fertilization also stimulates growth, and increases nutrient uptake. Fertilize with Milorganite around Memorial Day for both southern and northern grasses. For more tips on managing your lawn this summer visit here.
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Low Maintenance Flower Garden Care
By Melinda Myers Horticulture Expert
Grow a beautiful flower garden with minimal care by investing a bit of time at the start of the season to reduce on-going care.
Always match flowers to the growing conditions and the care you are willing to provide. Low maintenance plants need minimal or no deadheading and staking. This means you'll be growing good-looking plants with little effort on your part. And if the plants are suited to the growing conditions and resistant to common pests you'll be doing less work managing insect and disease problems.
Further reduce your workload by selecting self-cleaning or free flowering annuals and perennials and those bred for long bloom and compact growth. Read more…
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How to Improve Your Soil for Better Results in Any Lawn or Garden
By Joe Lamp'l Host of Growing a Greener World®
Just when I thought it couldn't get any better, it does.
I'm talking about the performance of my lawn and garden. While I've been gardening personally and professionally for most of my life, over the past several years, I've had a chance to really settle in to my forever landscape (and horticultural laboratory).
I've always practiced what I've preached. But now I finally have time to put all that advice I teach and demonstrate on television and writing, into full-on testing here at the Garden Farm—my personal home garden and landscape. It's also the filming set for our national television series, Growing a Greener World®.
For years, we've demonstrated all this great wisdom in everyone else's garden or landscape. Finally, we've been doing it at my place long enough to really see the tangible results of our practices. Read more…
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