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• Interesting Container Ideas

  If you are looking to decorate the outside of your home, try decorative planters. They allow you to bring living plant material in areas that you might not otherwise be able to. With as many choices that are out there today, you can get containers in... Posted Jul 26 2009, 10:02 AM by bryan-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: brilliant foliage, container, Container cleaning, Container Filler, container gardening, Container growing, container plant, container planting, containers, fertilizing containers, flower bed, flower pots, flowers, garden, garden arrangements, garden bed, garden beds, garden border, garden center, garden tips, gardening, gardening tips, hanging baskets, hardy plants, helpful gardening tips, helpful garden tips, Helpful Gardening tips, how to plant, perennial, planting depth, pots, potted, potting, soil, strawberries, tomato, variegated plants, vegetables, vine, Vines, water, weed

• Splitting and Cracking of Fruit and Tomatoes

  The main cause of fruit splitting is when drought is followed by a heavy rain. Plants most affected are apples , cherries, pears, plums, and tomatoes . I am sure there are others I have not mentioned. Rain and excess irrigation will often cause cracking... Posted Mar 15 2009, 04:53 PM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: cracked fruit, garden tips, splitting fruit, succulent plants, tensiometer

• Leafhoppers

  These tiny wedge shaped insects are visible and the leaf damage they do is also quite visible. These insects can be observed sucking plant sap from the foliage causing small white spots on the leaves. The leaves then can become pale, with the edges turning... Posted Mar 15 2009, 01:59 PM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: garden tips, Helpful Gardening tips, leafhopper control, leafhopper prevention, leafhoppers

• Plants with Chlorosis

  Chlorosis affects trees such as pin oaks , sweet gums, and pine trees . Other plants affected are blueberries, strawberries, camellias, gardenias, hydrangeas, lilies, rhododendrons , and mountain laurel. The main symptom of chlorosis is leaf discoloration... Posted Mar 12 2009, 10:27 AM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: alkaline soils, chlorosis, chlorosis treatments, foliar application, garden tips, iron chlorosis

• Window box size and soil

  Window boxes that are too large can become very heavy when filled with soil. Window boxes that are too small will not let plants develop adequate roots systems or they do not have enough soil to dissipate heat. The ideal size box is 3 to 4 feet long,... Posted Mar 11 2009, 08:41 AM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: garden tips, herbs, pansies, peat moss, periwinkle, perlite, shade plants, vegetables, window box

• Spring Bird Feeding And Nesting

  I was having my shredded wheat this morning and staring out our kitchen window watching the various birds (gold finch, woodpeckers, cardinals and sparrows) feeding at our feeders. A couple of robins were searching for worms in the lawn. As I watched and... Posted Apr 09 2008, 11:53 AM by jeff-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: Birds, birds feeding, chokeberry, garden tips, nesting, sumac, Viburnum

• Vegetable Gardening On The Rise?

  I have been reading on blog posts and magazine articles that vegetable gardening is on the rise. I truly hope that is true and not wishful thinking. Gardening gets a bad rap at times as being too much work or people just are unfamiliar with gardening... Posted Mar 25 2008, 11:36 AM by jeff-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: garden tips, gardening, vegetables

• Eating Peas Right From The Garden!

  Growing up on a grain and livestock farm was adventurous and at times very tiring. It seemed liked whenever we thought there might be a break in the chores, we were directed to our vegetable garden to help mom with weeding, hoeing, watering and harvesting... Posted Mar 08 2008, 01:28 PM by jeff-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: edible pods, garden tips, peas, vegetables

• Compost Pile Quick Tips

  You don’t need an expensive bin to start your compost pile. A pile of leaves, yard waste or grass clippings is a great start. If you don’t want to have a pile of leaves etc. you can use chicken wire (that’s what we called it on the farm) to make a simple... Posted Dec 28 2007, 02:41 PM by jeff-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: compost, garden tips, pile green

• Comb Those Roots!

  I ran across a great tip while reading a gardening magazine a while back and while I logged the idea in my memory bank, the idea just surfaced over the holidays. I saw a friend get a hair pick out of their purse. I’m sure we have all encountered the root... Posted Dec 28 2007, 02:23 PM by jeff-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: garden tips, gardening tips, perennials annuals root bound

• Welcome to the Helpful Gardening Tips

  This will be the home of our new helpful gardening tips blog. Using this blog, we hope to share some helpful gardening tips we have discovered over the years. We hope you may find some of these tips to be useful as you garden. We also encourage readers... Posted Dec 14 2007, 01:55 PM by shawn-nhn with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: garden tips, gardening tips