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Do You Find Gardening To Be Relaxing?

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:55:17 +0000

libra27 asked:

Some people claim gardening is therapeutic. Is this true? I’ve never had the opportunity to garden before, but my grandfather has a flower and vegetable garden, and he absolutely loves being outside gardening. As a matter of fact, that’s where he spends the majority of his day. Do those of you that garden, feel the same way?

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Gardening Tips

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 13:41:03 +0000

Gardening can be fun and productive. There is something about being able to grow one’s own herbs for cooking, or flowers to beautify the home. Gardening can be done just about anywhere, under any conditions. Each kind of gardening will have its own set of gardening tips. The following are tips that can be useful for many new gardeners.

1. Decide why you want a garden and where it will be. Do you want to provide fresh vegetables for yourself and your family? Do you want plants to liven up your home? Do you want to watch nature in your backyard? Many plants can be grown that will attract butterflies and other “wildlife” to your yard.

2. One of the most important, yet frequently ignored, gardening tips: Plan. Yes, it is a four-letter word, but it is necessary for a healthy, productive garden. Where will it be? How much time can you give to it? How accessible will it be? How large a garden do you want or need? You might start a garden on the spur of the moment, but successful, long-term gardens need to be planned.

3. If you are planning a container garden, you may not need these gardening tips ? unless you are thinking about putting dirt from the outside into your container. A better choice would be to decide how large a container you want/need and buy prepared potting soil, or prepare the soil before you plant.

4. Recognize which plants might be toxic to animals. Just because humans can eat certain plants doesn’t mean all animals can eat them.

5. If you are planning a large garden outside, one of the most popular gardening tips is to consider organic gardening. This is gardening without the use of chemicals and pesticides.

6. . Have fun. Unless you are a farmer by occupation, you got into gardening because you wanted a useful hobby, or to relax, or to be able to produce better products than you could buy in a store. Don’t make it a lot of work. If you don’t enjoy it, don’t do it.

There is something about putting one’s hands into good soil that appeals to many people. When that good soil can produce vegetables or flowers or both, many people want to do better “the next time around”. Maybe your first gardening effort wasn’t overwhelmingly successful, but you probably learned a lot in your first attempts at gardening. Review these gardening tips for the next garden; research other gardening tips, and your next garden should be more successful. Soon, people may ask you where you got your green thumb!

gardening?

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:55:53 +0000

loumcneillis asked:

My girlfriend and I are wanting to plant a small garden (maybe 6×8). We would like to plant some corn, cucumbers, tomatoes, bannana peppers, strawberries and some cantalope. It’s more of just something to do, but we are gonna eat the vegetables. My question is this: Can all these plants grow in the same type of soil? Are there any precautions that need to be taken? Is it too late to plant any of this stuff? We live in lower Michigan. Any helpful hints are appreciated.

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What tips do you have for organic gardening?

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:46:36 +0000

wagaboodles asked:

I try to garden without any chemicals added. What tips do you have? Especially in regards to pest control?

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How to advertise gardening work?

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:23:11 +0000

Alessandro M asked:

My friends and i want to make some money over the summer by doing some gardening work, however we don’t know what is the best way to advertise our services in our local area. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

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Need help with a Mother’s day gift! Any good gardening things out there?

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:00:30 +0000

J asked:

My father passed away a couple months ago and I want to get my mom something special. She loves to garden and my dad and her use to share that bond. Is there any new great gardening tools or things out there that you recommend?

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How do you go about finding a gardening club to join?

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:17:53 +0000

melouofs asked:

I am pretty new to the world of gardening, and I’d love to join a group where I can learn from fellow gardeners and get together, etc…the only problem is that I haven’t a clue as to how to go about finding such a group. I live in Scranton, PA. I’ve googled it every way I could think of and have come up empty.

Any ideas for me? Thanks.

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gardening?

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 09:05:16 +0000

How many more pictures will US magazine (and others) show of Michelle Obama gardening?

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 16:08:45 +0000

2points4thepeople asked:

Almost like, ” maybe we can pretend she’s a field n instead of the first lady? lol…
I’m sure she does more than gardening,..Honestly!

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I’m new to roses and gardening in general.Any tips for pruning?

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:06:41 +0000

Devil’s Advocette asked:

I live in an apartment, so I am limited to patio gardening. I have minature roses in an 8 inch pot, and a ‘Victory’ rose (med. sized, also in 8 inch pot) both in Miracle Grow potting soil, in full sun watered daily or as needed.

The mini’s are doing great, I’ve had them for weeks now and they look even better than they did when I bought them, no questions there.

The med sized, ‘Victory’ roses, I have only had for a few days now, they were budding when i bought them and now fully bloomed for the most part. I live in southern california, so frost pruning is not necessary (during the colder months I intend to leave them outside during the day for full sun, and bring them inside at night)

My questions are, when should I prune? And how exactly should it be done?

Also any other tips you think I might need to know.

(Please understand that I am new to gardening in general so if you could explain in detailed lay-man’s terms it would be greatly appreciated.)

Thanks

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