2017

  • Create Your Own Organic Fertilizer For Your Residential Lawn

    A beautiful lawn is a key element of an attractive residence. To produce a thriving lawn, you must have consistent lawn care and fertilization. Here are some ways that you can make and use your own organic fertilizer to grow a thriving green lawn:  Build a Compost Pile You can create your own natural fertilizer for your lawn with a simple composter. To build a composter, fence off an area of your lawn where you can pile up organic materials such as kitchen scraps, coffee grounds and tea leaves, dried leaves, garden clippings, and even shredded paper.
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  • Starting a CSA? Helpful Hints to Reduce Weeds Without Chemicals or Extra Weeding Chores

    Starting a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) endeavor is a great way to offer healthier, locally grown vegetables, fruits, and other foods to consumers who may have previously had to rely on commercially grown options from their local supermarket. Since many commercial growers routinely use pesticides and other chemicals, health-conscious individuals can feel good about getting the foods they want and need from a local CSA, instead. But weeds are not just a commercial grower problem, so CSA owners often find themselves overwhelmed with hand weeding chores while also trying to take care of the seeding, tilling, watering and harvesting chores.
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  • Want to Grow Full Sun Plants in Your Backyard? Get Landscaping Help to Cut Down on Shade

    If you buy a brand-new home that is outfitted with custom features based on what you choose and are willing to pay for, you may end up with a landscape that already has the look and feel that you desire. But, buying a home from another homeowner means you will be inheriting what they have done. You could be presented with an empty backyard or one that has certain plants you may not particularly like.
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  • 3 Key Elements In Landscaping Your Luxury Home

    If you're finishing the design or construction of your new luxury home, you're likely excitedly looking forward to moving in and enjoying the fruits of your labor. But there's one more thing to do: landscape. While many luxury homeowners don't give the landscape as much thought as the interior of the home, it can be one of the key elements in your home's success. Here are three things to accomplish with your luxury landscape design.
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  • Why Power Raking Is Good For A Lawn

    Does it seem as though nothing that you are doing to improve the look of your lawn is working? The problem might be that your lawn is covered in thatch, which is basically a mixture of dead grass, leaves, and possibly roots. Thatch sits on top of the soil and prevents grass from getting the nourishment that it needs to grow in a healthy manner. You can get rid of thatch by hiring a power raking service.
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  • Blurring The Divide Between Your Patio And Landscaping

    The patio is the center of your outdoor living. You cook, eat, and even entertain there. Yet the patio should feel like a transition space between the indoors and your backyard. Create a patio with a seamless transition to your yard. Container Garden The most obvious way to blur the lines between the patio and landscaping is with plants you bring onto the patio itself. A container garden can come in many different forms.
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  • Marine Landscaping 101: 3 Popular Seawall Materials

    Owning a waterfront home comes with its own set of problems. Sure, the view is breathtakingly beautiful. However, you'll need to prevent the water from eroding your land – especially if your home sits along saltwater. Luckily, marine landscaping can help. With a well built sea wall, your home and property will stay safe from water erosion. Sea walls can be built with a variety of materials. So which materials are the most popular?
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  • 2 Reasons To Hire A Sprinkler Repair Service

    Your sprinklers are one of the most essential aspects of your landscape design. They are used to not only make sure that your grass gets the amount of water that it needs, but they can also be used to water your plants, such as your trees, shrubs, and flowers. Because of this, it can be a big deal if something happens to go wrong with your sprinklers. You are going to have problems getting the amount of water that you need to your grass and other plants, which can cause them to go downhill quickly.
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  • Three Ways To Make Your Lawn Magically Appear (Or Make It Seem That Way!)

    Lawns are complicated things. You have to get all of this green grass to grow from seeds, stay green, cut it, keep it tidy, fertilize it, etc. It is definitely not easy to do if you cannot be right on top of it all the time. No one would blame you for a spotty lawn, but if you want your lawn to spring from the ground and look instantaneously stunning, you do have options.
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