Time to start thinking about the summer garden. If one wants to enjoy color during the summer, spring is the time to plant out summer flowering annuals, bulbs, perennials and shrubs. This is also the month to begin getting the lawn in shape for the summer. In fact, what you accomplish this month will greatly cut back on garden maintenance the rest of this spring and summer.
Has the weather kept you from getting some of your spring gardening projects completed? Early June is not too late to get your summer gardening underway. Adding color, pruning, controlling slugs, dividing perennials, planting vegetables and eliminating weeds head the list of things to do in June.
For fullest flavor and nutritional value, it is important to harvest your vegetables at the right time. Many can be harvested at just about any stage of their growth, but others do not have their best taste if they are picked when they are under-ripe or overripe; they must be harvested at exactly the right point in their development.
There isn’t a great deal that needs to be done in the lawn area during the fall. However, if you do spend a little extra time grooming it, the lawn will look better during the fall and winter and be in better growing condition by the time spring rolls around.
Late winter is the time to plant out garden peas and sweet peas, two of the earliest of all seed crops.
Approximately how many of any vegetable do you need to feed four people? This chart will tell you what you need to know to plan a home garden.
By using natural minerals and materials, by taking advantage of natural predators, and by recycling garden waste, the home gardener can maintain an organic garden quite successfully.
In the Pacific Northwest, one of the most popular garden shrubs is the rhododendron. One of the greatest advantages of this shrub is that it is evergreen and many varieties flower at varying times of the year. In fact, by proper selection of varieties it’s possible to have continual flowering for up to six months or more. In this article we’ll discuss a few of the early flowering varieties.
August and early September is the time for dividing many garden plants, The spring-flowering perennials, including aubrietia, candytuft and snow-on-the-mountain, plus primroses, hellebores, peonies and iris may be divided and transplanted at this time of the year.
Many sloping areas and hillsides have experienced various degrees of erosion due to the heavy fall, winter and early spring rains. In some cases these problems could have been greatly reduced had deep-rooted ground covers been used to help secure the soil on these sloping areas. So here are a few ideas of plants one can use to beautify a hillside and possibly help stabilize the soil too.