Category : Landscaping & Garden & Landscape : Home & Garden

How to Mulch With Hickory Chips

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Mulch is a key ingredient in a productive vegetable garden or a beautiful flower garden and lawn. Spreading wood chip mulch in critical areas keeps weeds away, retains moisture, prevents the splashing of soil-borne diseases onto plants and provides a path to walk without compressing the ground under

How to Make a Vine Topiary

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Vine topiaries are indeed created with vines, but there's more to them than that. They're like a slow-motion sculpture, with the vine being trained to grow across and cover a topiary form in the shape of your choosing. This form of garden art can be pursued outdoors, if you've an annual vine or a mi

How to Control Houseflies

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Whether you have a few flies on your windowsills or an infestation in your kitchen, controlling houseflies brings you peace of mind and better health. Houseflies cannot bite, but they spread bacteria, viruses and diseases to people and pets. Because houseflies lay up to 100 small eggs at a time, con

How to Plant in Composted Leaves

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In most home gardens, dead leaves are available in abundance. These fallen leaves make an ideal source material for compost. When added to the soil, composted leaves improve its structure, water retention, and nutrient levels. But you can have too much of a good thing. Never plant garden plants dire

How to Kill Kentucky Bluegrass

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Kentucky Bluegrass is a hearty turf grass that is native to Europe, Asia, Morocco and parts of Algeria. Though it is not native to the United States, it thrives in the northern, eastern and western states. It does well in most soil types, which presents a problem for flower beds, vegetable gardens a