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Mygarden is a site aimed at helping you with all your gardening, landscape design and home improvement questions. We have some great garden tips and ideas for your house (retaining walls, ground covers, terraces, design, outdoor lighting and low voltage lighting, espalier) for you and your family. Be sure to check them out if you are renovating. Great ideas for kitchens and bathrooms too,
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  In this website, we hope to give you gardening tips based on a combination of old fashioned knowledge, down to earth practices and some modern understanding too. The goal is to help people reconnect with mother nature by working in their own garden. Heaven knows we need it now more than ever!
On that note, nothing could be more pressing than the environment and global warming. For this reason, we have put together a collection of resources to help you navigate your way through the carbon neutral minefield. These include sustainable living resources such as green living (hemp products), recycling and sustainable living, sustainable architecture, renewable energy (solar energy, solar power, solar panels, biomass and biofuels, hydro and wind power etc..)
If you are looking for botanical taxonomical information, please go to our database. You can search for over 211,000 botanical names! We aim to bring you the most complete listing of botanical names in the world!
We have many features on many types of both house and garden plants and flowers too. Some great orchid articles such as how to grow orchids and caring for orchids. Orchid flowers are truly amazing.
One of our most popular subjects is the humble tomato. It has never been so easy to create your own crop - especially if you know all about your soil type. Mulch, and the different types of mulch is invaluable knowledge so you too can grow the best organic food, right at your back door (using permaculture design techniques of course!).
In Australia horticulture types covers almost all types of topography, seasons and conditions. From Alpine and sub alpine to coastal, rainforest and even deserts. However, if you plan on buying seeds from overseas, you should first determine if it is actually legal to bring them in into the country. You can obtain this information from ICON the Import Conditions Database which is maintained by Biosecurity Australia (BA) and used by the Australian Quarantine Inspection Service (AQIS) when processing imports. Check out this link. You should also check with your own state authorities to see if these species can legally be grown.
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Lawn Mower Blades -
Regular sharpening of your lawn , Planters for Houseplants mower blades will give you a consistently better cut. Why? Because dull mower , Hydroponic Systems - Aggregate Culture blades tend to the rip grass , Gardens and Garden Design blades instead of actually cutting them nice and cleanly, and this leaves the grass , Repotting Houseplants susceptible to diseases. , The Rice Weevil ...
The Black Peach Aphid -
The black peach aphid (Brachyeauclus persienecola), which is found in most peach-growing districts, attacks both the roots , White Louse Scale and the above-ground portions of the trees. , Sowing Seed Although the peach is its main food-plant, apricots growing , Sowing Australian Native Plants on peach stocks, plums, nect...
Growing Hydroponics -
Growing Hydroponics , Lantana (Lantana Camara) can be VERY complicated, with computers and sensors controlling everything from watering cycles to nutrient strength and the amount of light , How To Get Australian Native Seeds to Sprout that the plants , Growing Beans receive....
How to Make Compost -
For a good compost , Bamboo Floors heap, the layers of refuse should be 6 to 8 in. thick and should be trodden down moderately firmly. If the material is very dry, water , Pruning Newly Planted Roses may be added before the activator is applied. If you have to use very tough material such as cabbage...
Cork Flooring - Cork Floors -
Cork floors , Prinicples of a Japanese Garden have become very popular recently in both North America and Australasia and are now sold around the world. Cork flooring , How To Save Water is a fantastic product. , Pruning They are antistatic, a thermal insulator, sound absorbing, and also a great relief for thos...
Australian Bushland Gardening -
The first step in making a new garden , Push Lawn Sweepers in these conditions is to examine carefully all the growing , Formal and Informal Gardens plants; any tree , Hydroponic Systems - Aggregate Culture or shrub , Keeping Your Plants in Happy Surroundngs that is diseased or damaged should be dug out and destroyed. Some undergrowth might have to be cleared, and very tall trees, , Keeping Your Plants in Happy Surroundngs even t...
Conditions Required for Australian Native Seed Germination -
Seed of most species does not need light , Growing Ferns Indoors to germinate. But once germinated, the tiny seedlings need gentle light, , Great Potted Plant Ideas and in the wild are generally sheltered from full sun , Preparing Your New Garden and drying winds by features , Pruning such as bushes, tussocks, trees , Feature Walls and logs....
How to Sow Grass Seed -
Divide the seed , Australian Bushland Gardening to be sown in half; then, walking in parallel paths , Stony Soil in one direction (say north and south), sow one-half of the seed , Australian Bushland Gardening as evenly as you possibly can over the whole area. When this has been accomplished, sow the remaining seed , The Cabbage White Butterfly over the same a...
Caring for Roses -
To maintain soil , Seed Sowing and Germination fertility on established Rose , Spring Flowering Plants beds, two distinct operations are carried out: (a) Mulching. (b) The application of fertilisers as top dressings. A mulch is a layer of organic , Growing Palms from Date Stones matter, 2-3 in. thick, which is spread over the soil , The Light Brown Apple Moth about t...
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