| Preparing for the Winter Months:
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| | irrigation works best with well-draining
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| Gardening in OctoberWhen you feel that
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| | soils and shallow-rooted plants, or where
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| first solid bite in the breeze and you
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| | a cooling effect is desired. But
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| see the songbirds winging their way
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| | sprinklers have several disadvantages.
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| south, and the trees are bursting with
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| | They waste water, since much of it is
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| fire-laden hues, you know you can't be
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| | sprayed on areas other than the root zone
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| spending the weekend curled up by the
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| | around the plant. Because much of the
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| fireplace with a good book. Not for
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| | water is thrown high in the air, loss due
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| long.While the weather is still
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| | to evaporation can be significant.
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| gardener-friendly, you must shorten your
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| | Sprinklers can also foster fungal
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| "to-do" lists for the coming of late fall
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| | diseases and other problems with some
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| and early winter. Now is the time to
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| | plants such as roses that don't like
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| attack your lawn and garden by planting
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| | having wet foliage. Sprinklers require
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| your spring bulbs, buying and maintaining
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| | good water pressure and are best used on
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| your trees and shrubs, doing your late
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| | plants which are not in bloom. Several
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| autumn lawn care, using common-sense
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| | types of sprinklers are
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| watering strategies, building a compost
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| | available.Building a Bin and Making Your
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| bin and making your own compost,
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| | Own CompostA bin will contain your
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| controlling the many common garden pests,
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| | compost pile and make it more attractive
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| and winning at the weed-whacking war
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| | as well as keep it from spilling or
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| before the sudden onset of the fickle,
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| | blowing over into your yard. A circular
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| cold and all-enveloping winter
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| | or square structure can be made from
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| season.Planting Your PerennialsPlant the
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| | fencing wire. The idea is to push the
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| spring-flowering bulbs until the ground
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| | compost material together to make it heat
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| becomes frozen, and prepare your tender
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| | up and rot properly. The bin should be at
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| but tenacious perennials for the coming
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| | least three feet wide and three feet deep
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| seasonal changes. Remember that in the
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| | to provide enough space for the spreading
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| milder climates, bulbs can still be
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| | material. Use untreated wood or metal
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| divided and transplanted. Plant hardy
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| | fence posts for the corners and wrap
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| bulbs anytime before the soil freezes,
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| | sturdy wire fencing around them. The
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| but it's best to plant them early enough
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| | fence mesh should be small enough that
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| so the root systems can grow before
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| | rotting materials won't fall out. When
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| winter arrives. In some climates, you can
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| | the compost is ready, unwind the wire and
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| plant until Thanksgiving or even
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| | scoop from the bottom of the pile. Then
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| Christmas. Late-planted bulbs develop
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| | re-pile the undecomposed material and
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| roots in the spring, and may bloom late.
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| | wrap the wire back around the heap.Many
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| But they'll arrive on time by next
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| | hard-core gardeners feel that three
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| year.Be sure to position the bulbs at
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| | compost bins are the best for serious
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| their proper depth. They must be planted
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| | composting. By building a trio of bins
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| so their bottoms rest at a depth
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| | you can compost in stages: one bin will
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| two-and-a-half times each bulb's
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| | be ready, one will be brewing and one
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| diameter. In well-drained or sandy soil,
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| | will always be starting. Installing a
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| plant an inch or two deeper to increase
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| | cover, such as a plastic tarp or a piece
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| life and discourage rodents.Choosing Your
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| | of wood, helps to cut odor, control
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| Trees and ShrubsOctober is a wonderful
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| | moisture and keep out wild pests. You
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| time to shop for trees and shrubs at the
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| | will also want to use the right
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| nursery. They're now showing their best
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| | ingredients for a proper, lovely smelling
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| and brightest colors there. You can plant
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| | rotting compost heap.It's easy to cook up
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| them now and over the next few months, so
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| | your own pile. At first, layer grass
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| that strong, healthy roots will grow over
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| | clippings with a dash of leaves and twigs
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| the winter.You must carefully plan out
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| | to create a concoction that turns into
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| your landscape to choose which trees you
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| | humus, the best plant food. Added
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| wish to plant for providing proper lawn
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| | ingredients for the compost comes from
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| coverage and the most beautiful scenery.
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| | everyday waste in the kitchen and yard.
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| When an appropriate tree is purchased,
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| | But avoid any items that ruin your
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| selected and planted in the right place,
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| | compost. Use green materials such as
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| it frames your home and beautifies your
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| | fruit and vegetable scraps, eggshells,
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| land, making both more enjoyable. Trees
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| | coffee grounds, and grass and plant
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| can greatly increase the resale value of
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| | clippings; and brown materials, such as
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| property, and even save you on energy
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| | leaves, wood and bark chips, shredded
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| costs.Visualize your new trees at
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| | newspaper, straw and sawdust from
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| maturity while realizing that some trees
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| | untreated wood. Avoid using any meat,
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| develop as much width as height if given
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| | oil, fat, grease, diseased plants,
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| enough space to develop. Picture each
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| | sawdust or chips from pressure-treated
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| tree's size and shape in relation to the
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| | wood, dog or cat feces, weeds that go to
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| overall landscape and the size and style
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| | seed or dairy products. These can befoul,
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| of your home. Trees peaking at forty feet
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| | spoil and make smelly and rancid a
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| do best near or behind a one-story home.
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| | perfectly good productive compost
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| Taller trees blend with two-story houses
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| | heap.There are two types of composting:
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| and large lots. Trees under thirty feet
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| | cold and hot. Cold composting is as
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| tall suit streetside locations, small
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| | simple as piling up your yard waste or
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| lots and enclosed areas such as decks and
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| | taking out the organic materials in your
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| patios.There are two basic types of trees
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| | trash such as fruit and vegetable peels,
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| you will be considering for purchase.
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| | coffee grounds or egg shells and then
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| Deciduous trees include large shade trees
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| | piling them in your yard. Over the course
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| which frame areas with a cool summer
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| | of a year or so, the material will
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| canopy and a colorful autumn rack of
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| | decompose. Hot composting is for the more
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| superior colors. In winter, their
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| | serious gardener; you'll get compost in
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| silhouettes provide passage for sunlight.
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| | one to three months during warm weather.
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| These trees can shade a southern exposure
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| | Four ingredients are required for
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| from summertime heat, and allow winter
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| | fast-cooking hot compost: nitrogen,
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| sunlight to warm the house. Evergreen
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| | carbon, air and water. These items feed
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| trees have dense green foliage that suits
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| | microorganisms, which speed up the
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| them for planting as privacy screens,
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| | process of decay.Concentrated Pest
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| windbreaks or backdrops for flowering
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| | ControlSlugs and other pests don't
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| trees and shrubs. But they are handsome
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| | disappear as the weather gets cooler.
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| enough to stand alone. They do not lose
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| | You'll find them at all life stages in
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| their leaves, called needles, and provide
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| | October, from eggs to youngsters and
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| year-round shelter and color. You should
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| | adults. For slugs, use whatever measures
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| be sure to include a wide variety of both
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| | you prefer, salt, slug bait or saucers of
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| kinds of trees in your landscape to avoid
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| | beer to eliminate them. It's best to
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| losing them to diseases or pests. Buy
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| | catch them at the early stages to stop
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| disease- and pest-resistant trees.When
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| | the reproduction cycle. And keep the
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| buying a tree, look for healthy green
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| | ground well-raked and tidied to reduce
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| leaves if it has any, and also
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| | their natural habitat.Here's a list of
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| well-developed top growth. Branches
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| | common garden pests and how to control
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| should be unbroken and balanced around
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| | them:Thrips: Adult thrips are about
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| the trunk, and on dormant or bare-root
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| | one-sixteenth-inch long and have dark
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| stock they should be pliable. Examine the
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| | bodies with four fringed wings. Their
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| roots, which should form a balanced,
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| | size makes them difficult to detect in
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| fully-formed mass. Reject trees with
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| | the garden. They attack young leaves,
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| broken or dried-out roots. Avoid trees
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| | flower stalks and buds. Spray young
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| showing signs of disease, pests or stress
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| | foliage, developing buds and the soil
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| such as wilting, discoloration, misshapen
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| | around the bush with an insecticide
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| leaves, scarred bark and nonvigorous
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| | containing acephate.Cane borer: This
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| growth. Consider the size of the tree.
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| | insect is the maggot of the eggs laid by
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| Young trees have a better rate of success
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| | sawflies or carpenter bees in the
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| when planted, and most flowering trees
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| | freshly-cut cane of the rose after
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| grow quickly, so start with less
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| | pruning. One telltale sign is a
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| expensive, smaller specimens. And be sure
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| | neatly-punctured hole visible on the top
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| and buy all your plants from a good
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| | of the cane. To remove the pest, cut
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| quality nursery with a decent
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| | several inches down the cane until there
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| reputation.Don't prune a newly planted
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| | are no more signs of the maggot or
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| tree unless its form needs improving.
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| | pith-eaten core. Seal all pruning cuts
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| Prune flowering trees in spring, after
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| | with pruning sealer.Japanese beetle,
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| blooming, to correct unsightly problems.
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| | Fuller rose beetle: These will eat parts
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| Crab apple trees are an exception and
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| | of the foliage and sometimes the flowers.
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| should be pruned in late winter. But you
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| | Pick beetles off the bush by hand. Or
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| can remove diseased or dead branches
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| | spray foliage and flowers with an
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| anytime of the year, and much of this is
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| | insecticide containing acepate or
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| done during the winter. Apply fertilizer
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| | malathion.Leaf miner: This insect can be
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| when needed in the second and subsequent
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| | spotted on foliage by the appearance of
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| growing seasons. Mulch to conserve
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| | irregular white chain-like blisters
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| moisture, reduce weeds and eliminate
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| | containing its grub. Remove foliage and
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| mowing near the tree. Spread wood chips
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| | discard it to prevent further
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| or bark four inches deep and as wide as
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| | infestation.Spittle bug: This small,
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| the tree's canopy around the base. But
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| | greenish-yellow insect hides inside a
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| don't mulch poorly drained oversaturated
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| | circular mass of white foam on the
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| soil. Wrap tree trunks after planting to
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| | surface of new stems, usually during the
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| prevent winter damage from weather and
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| | development of the first bloom cycle in
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| pests. And stake young trees, especially
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| | early spring. Spray a jet of water to
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| bare-root trees and evergreens, to
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| | remove the foam and the insect.Roseslug:
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| fortify them against strong winds. Stake
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| | When you see new foliage with a
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| loosely and allow the tree to bend
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| | skeletonized pattern, indicating that it
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| slightly, and remove stakes after one
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| | has been eaten, chances are it's the
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| year.Shrubs are often planted and used
| |
| | roseslug. Remove the infected foliage and
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| merely as foundation plants or privacy
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| | spray with insecticidal soap or an
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| screens. But shrubbery foliage is vastly
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| | insecticide that contains acephate.Leaf
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| more versatile, and can go a long way
| |
| | cutter bee: As its name implies, this
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| toward livening up your landscaping.
| |
| | very small yellowish-green insect jumps
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| Countless varieties of gorgeously hued
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| | on the undersides of foliage to feast,
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| and beautifully leafed shrubs are
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| | often leaving its white skin behind. The
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| available through nurseries and garden
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| | damage caused by this insect often
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| catalogs.You must start by learning what
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| | results in defoliation. Use an
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| varieties thrive in your area. Try
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| | insecticide containing acephate or
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| visiting your local arboretum, where you
| |
| | malathion to prevent it from establishing
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| may view different kinds of shrubs and
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| | a strong colony.Rose scale: This insect
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| decide whether they fit your gardening
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| | hides under gray scales, normally on old
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| plans. Decide what overall look you want
| |
| | canes or stems. It feeds by sucking the
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| at different times of the year, and then
| |
| | sap, weakening the plant. If the
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| find out which shrubs will be flowering,
| |
| | infestation is localized, try removing it
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| producing berries or sporting colorful
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| | with a fingernail. Or spray with an
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| foliage at those times. Compare what you
| |
| | insecticide containing acephate.Weed
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| find to the inventory at your local
| |
| | Whacking Made EasyActually, this is a
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| nursery, and ask the professionals who
| |
| | slight exaggeration. There's no rest for
|
| work there lots of questions.Understand
| |
| | the wicked. Keep staying ahead of your
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| the characteristics of each shrub before
| |
| | nasty weeds all this and next month. They
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| you plant it. Flowering and fruit-bearing
| |
| | serve as Home Sweet Home for all manner
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| shrubs enhance a new home, but improper
| |
| | of pests and bugs, and destroying them
|
| pruning and care will ruin the beauty of
| |
| | before they flower and seed will save you
|
| all your hard work. Some shrubs bloom on
| |
| | much work in the future.Preparation is
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| second- or third-year wood. If you're
| |
| | the key. All gardeners know what it's
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| maintaining a shrub because you're hoping
| |
| | like to have their yards invaded by
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| it's going to blossom, but you're cutting
| |
| | unwelcome plants. Although there's no
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| off first-year wood every year, it's
| |
| | really easy way to banish weeds, there
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| never going to bloom.Some varieties are a
| |
| | are a few solid techniques you can use to
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| foot tall at maturity, while others reach
| |
| | reclaim your turf. At the very least, you
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| over fifteen feet. A large shrub will
| |
| | can limit this utmost in hostile
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| usually require more pruning. Also
| |
| | takeovers.Here is a simple outline of
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| determine the plant's ability to tolerate
| |
| | effective battle strategies you can use
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| various soil conditions, wind, sun and
| |
| | in the fall:1) Be a mulching maniac.
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| shade. You don't put a plant that's
| |
| | Mulch acts as a suffocating blanket by
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| sensitive to the elements in an open
| |
| | preventing light from reaching weed
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| area. Use hardier plants to shelter
| |
| | seeds. At the same time, it holds
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| it.Not all shrubs work in every climate.
| |
| | moisture for your plants and provides
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| Witch hazel, for example, blooms in fall
| |
| | nutrients for your soil as it decomposes.
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| or winter and is hardiest where minimum
| |
| | Apply coarse mulch, such as bark or wood
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| temperatures range from thirty degrees
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| | chips, directly onto soil. Leaves, grass
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| below zero to twenty degrees above. It
| |
| | clippings, or straw work better as a weed
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| would not be a good choice for very dry,
| |
| | deterrent with a separating layer of
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| hot climates. But some shrubs such as
| |
| | newspaper, cardboard or fabric between
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| buddleia, hydrangea and spirea perform
| |
| | them and the soil.2) Water those weeds.
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| well across a wide range of growing
| |
| | Pulling weeds is easier and more
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| zones.Late Autumn Lawn CareAerate lawns
| |
| | efficient when the soil is moist. You are
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| in mid- to late-October, while the grass
| |
| | more likely to get the whole root system,
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| can recover easily. If you core aerate,
| |
| | and your yanking won't disturb
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| make your cores three inches deep, spaced
| |
| | surrounding plants as much either. No
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| about every six inches. Break up the
| |
| | rain? Turn on the sprinkler or even water
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| cores and spread them around. If your
| |
| | individual weeds, leave for a few hours
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| lawn needs it, thatch and follow with a
| |
| | and then get your hands dirty. Just
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| fall or winter fertilizer. Even if
| |
| | ignore the strange looks from your
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| thatching isn't needed, your lawn will be
| |
| | neighbors as you lovingly water your
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| happy for a dusting of fertilizer to help
| |
| | weeds.3) Cut weeds down in their prime.
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| roots gain strength before the spring
| |
| | Weeds love open soil. But if you till or
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| growing season. Overseed bald patches or
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| | cultivate and then wait to plant, you can
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| whole lawns as needed.
| |
| | outmaneuver the weeds. Till the ground at
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| Rake and compost leaves as they fall, as
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| | least twice before you plant. Your first
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| well as grass clippings from mowing. If
| |
| | digging will bring dormant weed seeds to
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| left on the ground now, they'll make a
| |
| | the surface where they can germinate.
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| wet, slippery mess that's inviting to
| |
| | Watch and wait for a few weeks until they
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| pests.Good gardeners use heavy-duty
| |
| | begin to grow. Then slice up the weeds
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| molded plastic for shaping neat edges of
| |
| | again with a tiller or a hoe, only don't
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| beds. You can buy these from garden
| |
| | dig as deep. Now it should be safe to put
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| centers, nurseries and mail order
| |
| | precious plants into the soil.4) Pass the
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| suppliers in rolls of flat, four- to
| |
| | salt. Try sweeping rock salt into
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| six-inch-tall plastic, and the edging
| |
| | crevices between paths. Although more
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| installs easily. You'll save yourself
| |
| | harsh, borax also works well. Be sure to
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| countless hours of removing grass and
| |
| | wear rubber gloves with the latter
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| weeds that otherwise creep into your
| |
| | material. You might need to apply a few
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| beds.Watering Your Lawn and GardenYou
| |
| | doses, but be aware of any surrounding
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| can't forget about watering in the middle
| |
| | plants because both products kill the
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| of fall. The summer's long over, but
| |
| | good plants along with the bad.Food for
|
| proper moisture now is key to your
| |
| | ThoughtIn addition to performing these
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| plants' survival over the cold winter
| |
| | autumnal lawn and garden duties, you may
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| months. You're likely to hear two pieces
| |
| | want to harvest your fall vegetables such
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| of advice on watering. One is that you
| |
| | as the perennial squashes. Do a taste
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| should give established plants an inch of
| |
| | test and harvest them when flavor is at
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| water per week, whether from rain or
| |
| | its peak. If you'd like to extend the
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| irrigation. The other is that personal
| |
| | harvest of carrots, turnips and other
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| observation of your own garden is the
| |
| | root vegetables, leave some in the ground
|
| only way to judge how much water it
| |
| | to mulch as the weather gets colder.
|
| needs. One fact about which there is more
| |
| | Early next month, before temperatures
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| agreement: the ideal is to maintain
| |
| | drop too much, seed cover crops such as
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| constant moisture, not a cycle of wet
| |
| | clover, peas or vetch to enrich the soil.
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| soil followed by dry soil.Although
| |
| | It will serve as a natural fertilizer,
|
| overwatering can be as big a problem as
| |
| | stifle weed growth and help loosen up the
|
| underwatering, most gardeners err on the
| |
| | soil for next year's crops.As for your
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| side of too little. Your needs will vary
| |
| | houseplants that you've put outside for
|
| through the year depending on the rate of
| |
| | the summer, if September was mild enough
|
| evapotranspiration in your garden.
| |
| | that your geraniums and other such plants
|
| Evapotranspiration refers to the two ways
| |
| | are still outdoors, be sure to make them
|
| that plants lose water. There's
| |
| | cozy inside before the first frost takes
|
| evaporation, the loss of water to the air
| |
| | a bite out of them. Take geranium
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| from soil, water and other surfaces. Then
| |
| | cuttings of two to four inches to root
|
| the other way is called transpiration, or
| |
| | indoors. If you treat houseplants
|
| water lost primarily from the leaves and
| |
| | chemically, be sure to keep them warm and
|
| stems of the plants. You can often obtain
| |
| | away from direct sunlight. Fertilize
|
| evapotranspiration rates for local areas
| |
| | houseplants now and they won't need it
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| from water departments and other
| |
| | again until March. And remember to get
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| agencies. You will see a graphic
| |
| | your poinsettias and your Thanksgiving
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| description of how a plant's natural need
| |
| | and Christmas cacti ready for well-timed
|
| for water changes during the growing
| |
| | holiday color. Give them a daily dose of
|
| season.In the meantime, keep these
| |
| | ten hours of bright daylight or four
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| pointers in mind:1) Water when it's
| |
| | hours of direct sun and fourteen hours of
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| needed, not according to the calendar.
| |
| | night darkness. Cacti need a cool
|
| Check the top six inches of the soil. If
| |
| | environment of fifty to sixty degrees,
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| it's dry and falls apart easily, water.
| |
| | while poinsettias prefer a warmer
|
| Your plants will also show signs that
| |
| | sixty-five to seventy degrees. Be sure
|
| they need water. Wilting, curling or
| |
| | and let your cacti dry out between
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| brown leaves mean that your plants may
| |
| | waterings.For a true gardenaholic, winter
|
| lack adequate water. Meanwhile, bear in
| |
| | is often considered to be the enemy. But
|
| mind that excess water creates a lack of
| |
| | with a few steps toward preparation in
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| oxygen in plants, making them show
| |
| | the early- to mid-fall, you can take care
|
| similar symptoms to underwatering.2)
| |
| | of your lawn, garden and houseplants in a
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| Water slowly, not more than one-half inch
| |
| | way that will keep them thriving and
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| of water per hour. Too much water can be
| |
| | surviving until the dawning of yet
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| lost to runoff. This is why handheld
| |
| | another most welcome and bountiful
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| watering cans or handheld hoses generally
| |
| | springtime.The information in this
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| work only for watering small areas.3)
| |
| | article was gleaned from the MSN House
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| Water deeply. With established vegetables
| |
| | and Home website and the Better Homes and
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| and flowers, six inches is a minimum.
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| | Gardens website.RAINBOW WRITING, INC. --
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