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- 2007-03-30 12:38:21 - Control flea beetles organically
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- 2007-03-30 12:38:21 - Constructing garden steps
- Steps present as ideal an opportunity for beautifying the outdoors as any other item on your landscaping agenda. Materials which can be used vary from round-cut logs to concrete, brick or stone.
Standard step dimensions for outdoors should be the same as for indoor steps, particularly in areas frequently used. The tread should be 10 inches deep and the risers about 7 1/2 inches....
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- 2007-03-30 12:38:21 - Choosing a hydroponic grow light
- HID light bulbs setups have made the pipe dream of year-around horticulture a possibility for tens of thousands of indoor growers and industrial nursery gardeners everywhere. Thanks to their amazing production (up to ten times more lm per w than incandescent lightbulbs) and a colour range that plants prefer, indoor gardeners are able to achieve amazing yield year-around. Metal halide (MH) lightbul...
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- 2007-03-30 12:38:21 - Can your sundial really tell the time?
- "I am a sundial, and I make a botch
Of what is done far better by a watch"
So wrote Hilaire Belloc, but is this really fair? Sundials are the earliest known form of time-keeping having been used for some five thousand years. The Greek historian Herodotus stated that sundials were first used by the Chaldeans and Sumerians in Babylonia which was part of the modern Iraq. They us...
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- 2007-03-30 12:38:21 - Beware of toxic mulch
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- 2007-03-30 12:38:21 - Adding climbing roses to your landscape
- What is more beautiful than seeing a home or building with an arch of climbing roses in the landscaping? Climbing roses are one of many plants that branch out and intertwine themselves among arches, trellises, or even buildings and railings. They can add a great landscape element to any foundation.
Would you like more information about climbing roses? It is easy to learn about this ...
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- 2007-03-30 12:38:21 - 6 indoor plants that love the dark: a tip from the garden center nursery
- It was a long search that took me more than ten years. But finally I found it - the indoor house plant that will brighten up the end of a corridor 5 meters from my front door. The Aspidistra, commonly known as the Cast Iron plant, has graced the drawing rooms of many an otherwise drab Victorian English manor, and now graces my suburban Sydney brick home.
Many gardening experts descr...
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- 2007-03-30 12:38:21 - 5 most popular flowers for your garden
- When planting a garden there are many questions which you must ask yourself before you begin. Where are you going to plant it, do you have the garden equipment to do so and how big do you want your garden to be? When do flowers bloom and what are their heights? These are all very important questions, however they mean very little if you have not yet decided which types of flowers you want to plant...
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- 2007-03-30 12:38:21 - 10 tips for successful rose planting
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Planting roses isn't actually complicated, as long as you have some good advice and tips to start with...
1. Check with your local gardening center or florist for the best type of roses to grow in you climate. If you are a novice, you should look fo? disease resistant types of roses because they require a lot less maintenance.
2. When planting roses, you want ...