Planting a Lawn -
If your existing lawn suffers from bad soil compaction, or perhaps rampant weed problems, a heavy thatch, or even nutrient and organic matter deficien...
Green Manure Crops -
Because gardening is an intensive cultivation, it is rarely possible to devote considerable areas for lengthy periods to the growing of cover crops to...
Fresh Tulips -
Fresh tulips should stay fresh in a vase of water for around seven to ten days. For longer lasting tulips, you should recut the stems when you first g...
Testing your soil -
Soil-testing kits available and by and large they do a very good job of accurately testing your soil. However, if you are only interested in knowing i...
Lawn Repair -
First determine if the area can be repaired more easily than renewed. If the soil is very poor or shallow or if more than half the greenery is weeds, ...
Pruning Newly Planted Roses -
Make fresh cuts wherever long stubs have been left above nodes or dormant buds. Less pruning is required by climbing and shrub roses. because the orig...
Medicinal Tea - Chamomile -
Chamomile is perhaps the queen of medicinal tea herbs. It is a beautiful annual (although there is one variety of chamomile that is a perennial plant)...
Germination -
Germination: Garden seeds are usually treated by one of the following methods:
1. Those which are reasonably hardy are sown directly into the open gr...
The Blackheaded Pasture Cockchafer -
The pasture cockchafer (Aphodius tasmaniae) is a pest of improved pastures, lawns, golf fairways and parks, mainly in certain areas of the highland di...
