If your soil is too heavy, compact and requires lots of aeration or exhibits deep cracking during drought and drainage issues during heavy rain – it means the soil is rich with ultra-fine clay particles, and this is not a problem that is possible to ignore.
Author: Ivan J.
Fall Lawn Care – How to Prepare For Winter
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.
Dog Urine Killing Grass? Here’s What To Do!
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.
Dormant Seeding: The Basics
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.
Top 5 Gardening Challenges for Homeowners – Become A Pro Gardener!
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.
Nettle Water & Slurry as a Pesticide or Fertilizer: Myth Vs Fact
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.