Shade trees for lawns or border streets are of major consideration to anyone developing a home landscape. With today’s architectural trend the ultimate size and contour of the selected trees assume added importance. Excellent Lawn Trees Thornless Honey Locust The thornless honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos inermis), possessing as it does many qualities admired in the … Read more
A fine lawn is a thing of usefulness and beauty. If built right and well cared for, it should last a lifetime. All of us would like to have a beautiful lawn. With a little care and effort, there is no reason why we can’t. The steps for building and maintaining a lawn are important. … Read more
Summer is the season for building homes, and early autumn is the time for building lawns. All through the land, thousands of families are moving into new houses, stepping along wobbly planks, walking around piles of earth, and wondering if the heaps of yellow clay surrounding their castles will ever be transformed into green, carpet-like … Read more
A new or remodeled home deserves a new lawn, for it is an important part of the setting. All homeowners contemplating lawn construction will welcome the word that there has been a marked reduction in the mortality rate of new lawns. Once the lawn is started right, it is no longer necessary to remake it … Read more
A lawn can be grown on almost any soil that is available—so long as it is thoroughly prepared before seeding. Be sure to incorporate ample organic matter such as compost, peat moss, leaf mold or rotted manure, or whatever materials are available locally. Work this thoroughly into the soil to a depth of 6” to … Read more
Spring is the natural seeding time for most garden plants, while fall is the time for harvest. However, sow the seeds of grasses early enough in the fall so that they can germinate and produce hardy plants before winter. Considering the many advantages of fall sowing, it is a wonder that anyone should want to … Read more
Sometimes tending a lawn can be as complicated, if not more so, than tending a garden. One of the biggest issues occurs when your lawn has sustained significant abuse the previous year and requires overseeding. Overseeding grass in spring isn’t a complicated process by itself. It’s often a good time for adding fertilizer or contact … Read more
Every year the lawn season is marked by extreme variability in moisture and temperature conditions, and in many instances, these abrupt changes were seriously damaging to grass. This was to be expected since a lawn made up of thousands of growing grass plants cannot move into the shade or into a cool room when the … Read more
There are two camps regarding grass in the realm of plantophiles (plant lovers). The first camp believes that all grasses outside the purely ornamental varieties are weeds and detract from potential garden space. The other camp believes that lawns provide a sense of beauty and uniformity that can frame shrubs and flowering plants rather than … Read more
Purslane (Portulaca oleracea) is a common garden weed and a superfood. You may also hear it referred to as: Hogweed Pigweed Fatweed Pusley This leafy green veggie is full of the following: Omega 3 fatty acids Vitamin A Vitamin B Vitamin C Calcium Magnesium Potassium Manganese Iron It adds flavor and crunch to soups, sandwiches, … Read more