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Weeding and Cleaning Trees | The Ungardener
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Plan, Create, and Enjoy your BEST garden ever! Weeding and Cleaning Trees. March 18, 2015. CLEARING AND WEEDING THE YARD! So, which trees do I eliminate? The first question I need answered though in order to select the right trees to cut down is, “what makes a tree unhealthy? 8221; I definitely want to cut down the unhealthy ones first. There are eight marks of a healthy tree. 2) Dead or broken branches. 4) Leaves have incorrect color, shape or size. 5) Tree is infested with insects or disease. Such a me...
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Winter Yard Chores | The Ungardener
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Plan, Create, and Enjoy your BEST garden ever! December 11, 2013. WINTER CHORES (December February). Mow less often and higher where lawns continue growing. Avoid walking on frozen lawns that aren’t covered by snow. Water if rainfall is light. Wrap trunks of young trees to protect them from rodents. In late winter, prune shrubs or trees that flower later in summer (such as crape myrtle, butterfly bush, grasses, and hydrangea (prune new growth only now), azaleas (December or when dormant) . You are commen...
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Lasagna Gardening | The Ungardener
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Plan, Create, and Enjoy your BEST garden ever! April 23, 2013. I have a firm motto that you always give credit where credit is due. And in this case, there is a book I read years ago that really got me into gardening… it made me realize you didn’t have to spend hours and break your back to make your yard beautiful. This book is called,. By Patricia Lanza. It’s a Garden Writers Association of America, Quilt and Trowel Award Winner. So you want to know how it works, right? Potager Garden of strawberry boxes.
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Top 10 Reasons to SQUARE Garden | The Ungardener
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Plan, Create, and Enjoy your BEST garden ever! How to square garden. Planning a square garden. Top 10 Reasons to SQUARE Garden. October 4, 2013. WHAT IS SQUARE FOOT GARDENING? It’s a simple method of gardening, and I LOVE simple! In the 1970’s it was developed by a man named Mel Bartholomew who clearly was an UNgardener himself. The seeds are planted into clearly marked 1′ x 1′ plots. And if the plant calls for more space, then it’s given that many plots. Simple! TOP 10 REASONS TO SQUARE GARDEN. 5) Exten...
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Top 10 Shade Perennials | The Ungardener
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Plan, Create, and Enjoy your BEST garden ever! Top ten shade plants. Top 10 Shade Perennials. October 13, 2013. This coming year I will have to figure out what to plant in a mountainous yard that is densely packed with trees. There is very close to NO full sun. That means lots of bulbs since they bloom before all the leaves cover up the sun for the season. And in addition to that it means lots of shade perennials. So here is my list of the top ten shade perennials! This slideshow requires JavaScript.
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Plant Guide | The Ungardener
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Plan, Create, and Enjoy your BEST garden ever! Here I’ll list a “how to” document on as many plants as I can find. Thanks to the Virginia Cooperative Extension website. For all this very valuable information. If you have an extension in your state, it’s definitely worth looking up. I have utilized their expertise many times over the years. Once I even took a branch of a decaying tree to them for a diagnosis of the problem. They are GREAT! Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Come along wi...
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I’ve bought a new house with a beautiful garden, NOW WHAT? | The Ungardener
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Plan, Create, and Enjoy your BEST garden ever! I’ve bought a new house with a beautiful garden, NOW WHAT? June 13, 2014. So we bought a house in a different state, in a different climate, in a different soil type… NOW WHAT? I don’t have time to figure all of this out along with finding a new dentist, doctor, school, job, and more… There HAS to be a way to manage this successfully so I have the beautiful garden I used to have! 8212;—————————-. This slideshow requires JavaScript. From → 2 Create. Address n...
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Top 10 Tips on Easily Dividing your Perennials | The Ungardener
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Plan, Create, and Enjoy your BEST garden ever! Top 10 Tips on Easily Dividing your Perennials. February 16, 2014. 1) Divide when they are pretty, not after they have outgrown their space. It’s like when kids outgrow their clothes, you won’t let them wear them for another season… you go buy then a size up! So when the plant looks it’s greatest, and you find yourself standing in front of it admiring it that you make a note in your gardening journal to divide it at the end of it’s growing season. Keep the d...
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Power in the garden! | The Ungardener
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Plan, Create, and Enjoy your BEST garden ever! Power in the garden! June 5, 2014. Look out Bear Mountain! The UNgardener’s got a power drill! I’m a process engineer by degree and work experience, so my thoughts always go to things like: “how much faster could I do this? What’s your favorite gardening power tool? I’m going to need more of these! From → 2 Create. I love that your drill is pink. 🙂 amy. All of my tools for the garden are pink! It could only be better if they could also be sparkly! Candy Wat...
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