All articles from: October, 2009

Choosing A Pump for Your Garden Pond

Are you considering adding a fountain or waterfall to to your pond or water garden? Apart from the beauty, the splashing effect is amusing as well and it is amazingly easy to accomplish, once you set your mind to it.
To add a waterall or fountain feature to your water garden you’ll first need a submersible [...]

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Stocking Your Water Garden’s Pond

With your pond feature ready to be filled with plants, fish, and other accessories it is time to think about filling your water garden.
An important factor to consider is the type and source of water used in filling the pond. If it’s tap water from a town or city source you need to wait seven [...]

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Considered Fall Gardening?

Since our seasons in this part of North America are so short, I’ve often entertained building a green house, after the house fire though my building projects are already too many to count so this year I opted for a little fall gardening to keep the produce moving into the kitchen, well after the normal [...]

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Mulch for the Budget Wise

Earlier this month I was talking about mulch for the garden as winter approaches. I’m sure that if you are reading this, you have used some form of mulch during your gardening career. However, you probably didn’t know that there are many other options for organic mulching that you can explore.
That conversation struck up [...]

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Winter is Coming – Protect Your Garden

Here in the north, we’ve already seen snow in the garden. Winter is on it’s way which means it is time to protect our valuable plants for next years garden.
Although many gardeners believe that when the weather starts getting colder and the leaves start to fall, it is time to put away the gardening [...]

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