Creating Border Gardens

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Creating Border Gardens

Creating a border garden is a wonderful way to improve the overall look of your yard in general, and create dividing lines between specific areas or sections. If for instance, you want to divide your front yard space from the back yard, you could put a border garden in that will look pretty and define the space, without taking up a lot of room or completely blocking the view.

Border gardens look particularly nice when placed around the outside edge of a lawn or yard area though. These small garden beds will define the border of your property, make it look much more appealing, and are usually less expensive than installing a full fledged fence. Plus the border gardens usually accent the yard instead of blocking it from view inside or out.

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An Introduction to Mulching for Beginner Gardeners

An Introduction to Mulching for Beginner Gardeners

Simply put, mulch is a layer of organic or synthetic material which is laid on top of your garden soil. This top layer is designed to help the soil hold moisture longer, prevent soil from eroding, prevent the soil from fluctuating in temperature too drastically, and prevent weeds from easily being able to grow around your plants.

Mulch is usually light enough to allow plenty of water and air to get through it to the roots of your plants, but it’s also dense enough to prevent weeds from being able to grow easily. Organic mulch deteriorates over time too, and this has an additional effect of adding nutrients, minerals, and vitamins to the soil around your plants too.

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Gardening Basics: Garden Zones

Gardening Basics: Garden Zones

When you first start getting interested in gardening, there are many things you don’t know. Often you don’t even realize you don’t know these things, and they’re not always a problem in the beginning. As you become more experienced though, and want to try new garden styles, types of flowers, and various plants or shrubs, it’s a good idea to start learning some basics.

The most important thing to know about gardening, is which garden zone you live in. In the United States - and most parts of the rest of the world - there are garden zones assigned which make it a bit easier to know which types of flowers, plants, trees, and shrubs will grow well in your area. These zones are segregated based on the amount of heat an area gets, and when the first and last frost of each year are.

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Garden Planning

Garden Planning

When you’re ready to start planting a garden of any kind, the first thing you’ll need to do is actually plan where things will be planted in your yard. By planning your garden first, you’ll be able to create a beautiful landscape out of your yard, while making sure all plants and flowers compliment each other in color, height, texture and more. Read more

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