Good garden tools mean the difference between lovingly maintaining your garden and grumbling from blisters and a sore back.
Garden Tool Buying Guide
Pick a tool that fits you. In the store, check the weight, length and grip. If you don't get the right tool, you can end up with blisters . Some new pruners come with rotating handles - they make pruning
easier on the ...
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In order to have a good display of bulbs in your garden, you first have to make sure that the bulbs you are going to rely on for that display are healthy.
Buy only dormant bulbs that show little if any, root development and no top growth other than a pale fat bud. (Lilies, however, are never really dormant; their bulbs often have fleshy roots attached.)
Look for bulbs that have their ...
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 Double digging, also called "trenching": remove a spade's depth of soil
 over all the area you want to improve and put it aside.
 Dig organic materials into the next spade's depth. Mix the same
 organic materials into the soil you initially removed and put that
 mixture on top of the deeper mixture.
 What you accomplish is aeration of your soil to a depth of approx.
 18 inches with the inclusion of organic matter, as well.
Deep root penetration is easier, so that deep-rooted plants will
reward you with better growth.
Admittedly this involves a lot of back- straining labor, however the
value of this method for deeply-rooted perennial plants that grow
in one place for several years, and for shrubs that are deep-rooted
will be ongoing.
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