garden maintenance - Page 2 of 2 - Fine Gardening
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How-To
These Shears Are an Essential for Tidying Your Garden
My medium-duty bonsai thinning shears from Joshua Roth (model #133) are the best all-around snipping shears I’ve ever used and might be the most-loved and most-used gardening tool that I…
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Regenerative Gardening Practices in Southern California
You may have heard the term “regenerative” as it applies to farming. Regenerative agriculture is the conservation of land through processes that improve our soil, preserve our water, and enhance…
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Northern Plains October Garden To-Do List
Mulch in place. Keeping up with the raking and blowing of leaves in the fall can be a never-ending task, especially when every breeze in our windy region brings in…
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Garden Maintenance for the Heat of Late Summer
Summers in the Southern Plains can be real scorchers. While gardeners in more northern climates are forced to rest their gardens completely for a long winter spell, those of us…
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How to Repot Container Plants
Trimming the roots and refreshing the soil give potbound plants a new lease on life
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Perfect Edges for Your Beds and Borders
Follow these four steps to keep lawns and beds looking neat
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A Gardener’s Checklist for Early Summer
You have chores, and we can help you do them efficiently with expert advice on winter cleanup, spring pruning, sowing seeds, planting late-season bulbs, creating containers, dividing perennials...
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How-To
Five Common Pruning Mistakes, and How to Fix Them
Have you ever pruned so ineptly that your tree or shrub looks like a caricature? Well, don't despair. Help is at hand.