http://www.hbb2obm.com Learning To Be Backyard Gardeners Come Join Us As We Learn And Share. Fri, 09 May 2008 14:16:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Image via WikipediaYou will be rewarded in many ways – financial, spiritual and physical - when you choose to plant your own backyard vegetable garden. Once you eat some of the vegetables that you planted and nurtured with your own two hands and discover how tasty they are, you will ... http://www.hbb2obm.com/vegetable-garden/nothing-says-fresh-and-healthy-like-a-backyard-vegetable-garden/ Image via WikipediaIn the hot summer months it is difficult to keep your lawn looking fresh and green. This is because the hotter and drier it gets the more your lawn and plants need to be watered. If you don’t have an irrigation system already installed then you probably have ... http://www.hbb2obm.com/lawn-care/use-a-diy-lawn-irrigation-system/ Whether you have a backyard vegetable garden or a flower garden they need watering. Plants are approximately 90% water and therefore it is essential that they get enough water to survive. Backyard gardening is all about balance and that applies to the amount of water your plants need to stay healthy. Over ... http://www.hbb2obm.com/flower-garden/watering-your-plants/ When one thinks of an antique, a rose might not immediately come to mind. But antique roses have been around for centuries. Shakespeare used the word 'eglantine' when speaking of the rose in his sonnets and plays. Eglantine is described in the dictionary as a European rose with sweet-scented leaves ... http://www.hbb2obm.com/flower-garden/how-to-care-for-an-antique-rose/ Image via WikipediaI had a question from a new reader. Karen, desperate to save her flowers asks how to deal with hungry rabbits that find her flowers quite tasty. Nothing is more disheartening that to look at how well your flowers are doing just before you go to bed and then wake ... http://www.hbb2obm.com/flower-garden/how-to-keep-rabbits-and-other-critters-away-from-your-flowers/ If you want to get rid of pests in your garden or home, you can always get an insecticide at your local store. It may be a harsh chemical that you don't want in your home, though. You might prefer to use natural insecticide. If you do, you can prepare ... http://www.hbb2obm.com/mike-fortin/how-to-prepare-natural-insecticide-2/ If you want to get rid of pests in your garden or home, you can always get an insecticide at your local store. It may be a harsh chemical that you don't want in your home, though. You might prefer to use natural insecticide. If you do, you can prepare ... http://www.hbb2obm.com/mike-fortin/how-to-prepare-natural-insecticide/ Image by ThrasherDave via FlickrSome say roses aren't climbers by nature and must be taught. Just think....a climber that can grow to forty feet up a tree, yes, it's possible! If you prefer a smaller version, there is also the miniature climber to consider. Any rose is beautiful, but you ... http://www.hbb2obm.com/garden/what-about-roses-called-climbers/ Image by ...Tim via FlickrIf by chance you are using a weed killer and it accidentally gets on to your plants you should hose it off immediately. The sooner you can do this the less chance of damage affecting the condition of your plant. Sometimes while we are spraying elsewhere a ... http://www.hbb2obm.com/lawn-care/backyard-garden-weed-killer-damage/ I am learning to love backyard gardening in New Brunswick. It's a lot of hard work to get it started so we are starting small this year. I have this inner fear that if we try to do too much in our first year we may get discouraged and give ... http://www.hbb2obm.com/backyard-gardening/backyard-gardening-in-new-brunswick-canada/