Groundcovers

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Groundcovers

Groundcovers are a type of plant which usually spreads far and wide fairly quickly and easily. Most good ground covers will grow very low - sometimes just a few inches high - and they quickly overtake the area they’re planted in. They’re excellent for choking out weeds, and filling in blank spots of dirt in your yard too.

Ground covers can be used for a variety of things in both your lawn and garden areas. Some people will plant a ground cover in their yard proper for instance, instead of planting regular grass. This is an excellent way to create a beautiful yard which requires little to no mowing throughout the entire year. Many ground covers also create wonderful shades of color, some have excellent and unusual texture, and some create beautiful flowers too. So planting them in place of grass for your yard will give you a unique and beautiful yard which doesn’t require much care at all from you.
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Common Gardening Mistakes Part 2

Common Gardening Mistakes Part 2

Planting your plants in the wrong areas - Even when you know for sure the new plant will grow in your garden zone, you may have problems with it if you plant it in the wrong area of your yard. In fact, one of the reasons some of your plants may get too much water while others are getting too little, is because you planted them into the same container or flower bed even though they had different watering requirements.

When you buy new plants, be sure to pay attention to it’s particular requirements. If it needs a lot of sun, don’t choose a shady spot to plant it and vice versa. Sometimes this exercise is more of a trial and error process too though. You may plant something in an area that you feel fits the description of “partial shade”, only to find that there’s too much sun for it.

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Vegetable Gardening

Vegetable Gardening

Planting a home vegetable garden is a wonderful way to provide your family with fresh healthy produce throughout the year. Even though the vegetables in your garden will be ripe for just a short period of time during the year, you can take the extras and put them into your freezer, or can them up in jars to put into the pantry, and both will be useable by your family throughout most of the entire year.

Planting your own vegetable garden also allows you to know more about how healthy or dangerous the foods you’re eating are. Store bought produce for instance, is often grown on farms which use chemical fertilizers and poisonous pest control methods. Plants absorb whatever is put onto them or into their soil as they’re growing, so if you’re eating produce which has had chemicals and toxins used on it, those chemicals are also in the plant itself, and are being fed to your body.

When you grow your own vegetables in a home garden though, you can choose to use organic growing methods which are much safer for both the environment, you, and your family.
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