It’s that time of the year again. Time to prepare our lawns for winter and start hanging our lawn tools in the shed. But where to start and when to end exactly? How can a new homeowner organize an optimal order of operations if they have no prior experience with fall lawn care? Stay tuned.
First, it’s important to know that not all listed operations are applicable to your case, and what is optimal for one person in one area, most likely won’t be optimal for you.
Are you getting barren patches on your lawn? Is your grass dying out only on some places and you are a dog owner? Here’s how to tell if dog urine is killing grass on your lawn, and what to do about it.
There are very few secrets today in the field of lawn care, but there are lesser known methods of keeping lawns in top shape. If your lawn is not looking too well in the spring and you’re regularly finding bare spots at the start of the season when the grass is supposed to be that perfect spring green, dormant seeding is probably going to help cover up for that.
Sometimes it’s good to create challenges for ourselves to jolt us out of our comfort zone. Other times it’s good to take our mind away from other challenges life keeps throwing at us. The title says it all.
The common nettle, or stinging nettle is a herbaceous perennial plant that has been used for a variety of purposes throughout the millennia. It seems unbelievably useful at first glance. You can make a lot of from it – boil some tea with dried nettle, mix it into a pie with some cheese, mix it with chicken feed as a supplement. Or, you could use nettle water as a fertilizer or pesticide on your other crops.
The phrase “Great Nutrient Collapse” refers to the ever-decreasing nutrient density of plant matter, and specifically – the plants we use in human diets across the world. There have been a lot of theories and experiments revolving around these questions:
The short answer is – the date of planting or sowing grass seed depends on your location and type of grass you’ve chosen. So, when is the best time to plant grass seed for lawn or turf?
In this guide you will find out how to estimate your ideal time frame for sowing or planting grass seed or sod.
Coffee grounds are the thick layer of dregs that are leftover after enjoying a cup of coffee. Most people just throw these away, not thinking too much about its “secret” potential.
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Many DIY gardeners have been testing out unusual methods of fertilization with items that usually end up in the compost heap. One of them is the humble banana, or banana peels to be more precise.