Did you know hot sauce mixed with garlic and water can chase away those annoying caterpillars who have been feeding on your precious plants? You may appreciate butterflies, but not their babies. So, maybe you just want them to relocate to another area. Many natural insecticides are used as repellants rather than as a way [...]

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When do you send flowers to anyone? Birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, Mother day. Flowers just say so much. Kind of like a picture is worth a thousand words.
We have flowers growing all over our property and they make me a happier guy. I can sit in my home office looking into my backyard garden and just [...]

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You wouldn’t think it to look at our backyard but spring is just a day away. March 20 is tomorrow and I expect to see green. No excuses.
Okay that ain’t gonna happen but the sun shining in my office window is so much more inspiring than it was just a few weeks ago. It’s like [...]

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For your plants to survive it is essential to have an effective watering plan and this can be made somewhat easier by installing an irrigation system.
There are many products on the market that allow the home handy person to install their own irrigation system.
The first thing you will need to do is set out a [...]

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There are many different symptoms that can show where there has been a nutrient deficiency in a plant. Because all plants respond differently to a lack of nutrients it is not always easy to determine whether it is a deficiency or something else that is causing the changes to the plant.
Where you see abnormal leaf [...]

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