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Posted: 2008-02-04
Category: Gardening
Many gardeners don’t consider gardening through the fall because of the danger of early winter frosts. However, fall gardening can extend the length of your growing season by months, giving you fresh, tasty vegetables for more of the year. In fact, some gardeners say that gardening in the fall produces plants that are milder and sweeter in taste than those that grow in the summer. The key is to plan ahead to make sure your garden is protected in the cooler weather.
Posted: 2008-02-04
Category: Gardening
Indoor gardening involves so much more than sticking an artificial plant in the corner of a room and dusting the leaves off every so often! Growing plants indoors is a rewarding hobby that provides beautiful decoration and usable products, while removing carbon dioxide, pollutants and poisonous toxins from the air in your home. Indoor gardening is inexpensive and easy to do – even for those without green thumbs!
Posted: 2008-02-04
Category: Gardening
These days, we’ve removed ourselves so far from nature that many children believe vegetables come from the supermarket, not from gardens. Teaching children to garden and become involved in environmentally-friendly activities has many benefits, from teaching children about science and the life cycle to engaging them in quality time with their families. In addition, teaching children to garden helps increase their environmental awareness, which may be crucial in the coming years as our planet faces global warming and other environmental threats.
Posted: 2008-02-04
Category: Gardening
Water gardening is an exciting form of gardening that has increased in popularity over the past several years. Water gardening involves the use of water features, such as ponds, fountains and waterfalls. These forms can be enhanced with rock and stone work, plants, lighting and fish, depending on your taste and aesthetic preferences. Best of all, water gardening can be as easy, or as complicated, as you like. You can have an expensive pond system installed, or you can build a garden around a plastic tub of water – the sky’s the limit!
Posted: 2008-02-04
Category: Gardening
Got garden bugs? A visiting rabbit that likes to nibble on your lettuce? Here’s some advice on keeping your garden protected from unfriendly garden pests.
Posted: 2008-02-04
Category: Gardening
If you like gardens but don’t have space, don’t despair! If you have enough space for a pot on your balcony, deck, patio - or even a sunny window - you can indulge your gardening passion by creating a container garden.
Posted: 2008-02-04
Category: Gardening
Organic gardening is similar to regular gardening, with the exception that you don’t use any synthetic fertilizers or pesticides. This can make it more difficult to control disease, weeds and insects if you are used to using chemical products. Organic gardening also requires more of your attention because you must keep an eye out on the soil and what the plants need.
Posted: 2008-02-04
Category: Gardening
If you’re thinking about building a garden, the first thing you need to do is select a location. Depending on where you live – whether in the city or on a 20-acre property – you may have several choices, or none at all. If you live in an apartment and have no land to plant, you’re stuck with a container garden. But never fear – you can actually do quite a lot with a box garden.
Posted: 2008-02-04
Category: Gardening
In my opinion, roses are some of the most beautiful flowers around. Unfortunately, their reputation for being difficult to grow and maintain has prevented many gardeners from enjoying these lovely flowers. It’s true that rose gardening can be more challenging than other types of flowers, but once you’ve discovered how to care for roses correctly, you’ll find that it’s not really that bad.
Posted: 2008-02-04
Category: Gardening
Hydroponics gardening may look like something out of the future, but it’s a growing trend that many gardeners are changing to, for a variety of different reasons. Gardens grown without soil can be easily grown indoors, and can produce better results with some vegetables, especially tomatoes. The equipment for hydroponics gardening is relatively inexpensive and easy to manage – why not give it a try?
Posted: 2008-02-04
Category: Gardening
Herb gardening is becoming more and more popular – and with good reason! Herb gardens have a practical, as well as an aesthetic, value from the fresh herbs produced for cooking. However, herbs grown at home can serve many purposes beyond the culinary. Fresh herbs can be used in home-made beauty products, decorations and potpourri, or just enjoyed as part of a beautiful, aromatic garden.
Posted: 2008-02-04
Category: Gardening
It’s hard to believe, but gardening can cause harm to the environment around it. When you dig and till the soil, you release carbon dioxide that is otherwise trapped in the ground, potentially contributing to global warming. You’re also destroying communities of good fungi and bacteria that live in the soil, and leaching potentially harmful fertilizers and manures into drinking water systems. All this doom and gloom isn’t a call to stop gardening – just a caution for gardeners to work more in harmony with nature.
Posted: 2008-02-04
Category: Gardening
Butterfly gardening is a special type of garden design featuring arrangements of flowers and plants designed to attract colorful butterflies into your garden. Butterfly gardens are beautiful to see and spend time in, but it’s important to design them with the safety of these winged creatures in mind. For example, if you’ve keep a cat as a pet, you might want to consider a different type of garden. Watching your butterflies become kitty snacks is sure to take the fun out of your garden.
Posted: 2008-02-04
Category: Gardening
Do any of your elderly relatives stoop or hunch over when they’re standing or walking? Most of us just chalk it up to old age, but have you ever wondered what makes their bodies contort like that? The reason is simple. Throughout their lives, most people don’t stretch their necks and backs through their full range of motion, and as time passes the muscles shorten. As the muscles remain unused, calcium salt deposits in the joints, completing the immobilization process. Once this calcification occurs, it cannot be reversed.
Posted: 2008-02-01
Category: Muscle Building
