Buy garden chemicals in small quantities that can be used up in one growing season to avoid storage problems. If the label of a garden chemical has faded, write the brand name, active ingredient and EPA registration on the container itself or on masking tape attached to the container. Do not spray pesticides on a [...]
We've all experienced it... the awkward balancing act of trying to carry a precariously teetering load of beach gear, all in an attempt to make it in one trip. Well, FINALLY someone has come up with a nice, easy solution! Meet the Lazee Move System, quite possibly your new best friend. BeachTuff has created the [...]
Piedmont Natural Gas To Tag Trees April 6 As Reminder To ‘Call Before You Dig’ Blackhawk Hardware, Girl Scouts Team Up To Educate Homeowners About Free 811 Service CHARLOTTE, N.C. (April 4, 2012) – Trees and shrubs for sale at one local garden center this weekend will be tagged with an important safety reminder for [...]
While on my quest to improve the soil and the results I was getting in my yard, things took an interesting turn. I have always had a compost pile. Every fall I collect several hundred bags of leaves which I grind into an almost dust like state. I spread the ground leafs on all my [...]
We all know that the predominate soil here in the Charlotte area is clay. While this clay is fantastic for pottery classes and detergent companies, it isn’t so great for the gardeners among us. This article is intended to answer the four big question about liming. Why, when, how, and how much to Lime. If [...]
Article Source: Alex Lieber of petplace.com Imagine you're sitting in your backyard, sipping coffee and listening to the rustling breeze. A songbird perched at your bird feeder adds just the right element to complete a perfectly peaceful scene. But danger could be lying in wait for your feathered visitor in the form of a [...]
Article Source: wikiHow A beautiful lawn is easier to have and maintain than the professional lawn-care people want you to think. Sadly, their way of maintaining lawns is dictated by the fertilizer makers and not by grass know-how or science. Steps Stop fertilizing your lawn repeatedly. Lots of fertilizer encourages rapid grass growth, making the [...]
Watering Watering should be done in the morning so the water on the leaves of the grass plants has a chance to evaporate off in the afternoon sun. This will help prevent some chance of disease (fungi) setting in on the plant. If you watered in the evening, the water would stay on the plant [...]
(ARA) - Every year, more and more people are adopting “outdoor pets” in their back yard, whether they are squirrels, rabbits or the most popular outdoor pets of them all -- wild birds. People have loved feeding birds almost since the beginning of time, but for most of those years there wasn’t much nutritional science [...]
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Fertilizer Fertilizer is rated by content (by % of weight) of three major ingredients; nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium. They are listed on every package of fertilizer. Such as 10-10-10 or 35-3-5 (here 35% of the bag is nitrogen, 3 % is phosphorous and 5 % is potash or [...]
