Showing posts with label lawn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lawn. Show all posts
Feb 5, 2025

Preparing Your Garden for Spring: Soil Testing and Amendment Strategies

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As gardeners, we wait all winter for the smell of fresh-cut grass and the taste of warm, vine-ripened tomatoes. But before those dreams beco...
May 24, 2014

Time To Start Treating For Lawn Disease

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With all the rain we've been getting in the Northeast lately, and the warm weather that's coming in next week, conditions are prime ...
Aug 31, 2013

Milky Spore Dispenser - On a Stick!

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Everything's better when it's on a stick! Here's a cheap and easy tool you can make your self to spread Milky Spore powder ove...
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How Milk Treats Plant Disease

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When it comes to organic lawn care and gardening you hear things that sound downright crazy. One of the more odd suggestions is to use a d...
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Sep 16, 2012

Organic Lawn Renovation - Soil Prep and Seeding

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Days 9, 10 and 11 of my organic lawn renovation project were pretty tough. A lot of raking, digging and incorporating compost. I ran into...
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Aug 31, 2012

Organic Lawn Renovation: BurnOut II VS Nature's Avenger

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Today is the first day of my organic lawn renovation project and it starts off with killing off my existing lawn and weeds. I didn't ...
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Smith 2 Gallon Max Contractor Sprayer Review

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I needed a new pump sprayer for my lawn renovation  project and the   Smith 2-Gallon Contractor Sprayer  seemed to be the best garden spr...
Aug 30, 2012

Organic Lawn Renovation: The Plan

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Because I was planning on killing and reseeding parts of my lawn last year I didn't take as good care of those areas as I should hav...
Jul 28, 2012

What is Elite Grass Seed?

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If you're searching the web for the best grass seed to plant in your lawn you undoubtedly came across references to  elite grass  in l...
Jul 17, 2012

Black Beauty Day 4

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I'm growing Jonathan Green Black Beauty grass seed  in a container as a little experiment to get a better feel for it to see if it...
Jul 14, 2012

Growing Grass Indoors: Day 17

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It's day 17 of my project to grow grass indoors  and it's been coming along nicely but not great. There were two main issues that ...

Jonathan Green Black Beauty Experiment

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All the lawn geeks seem to use a blend of Kentucky Bluegrass to get a great looking, dark green lawn. At least that's what it seems li...
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Jul 13, 2012

How To Treat Lawn Disease Organically

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Is Using Cornmeal to Treat Lawn Disease a Myth? Not only does Dr. Linda Chalker-Scott consider the use of cornmeal as a fungicide...
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Jul 8, 2012

Tools For Lawn Renovation

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I've been wanting to completely renovate and reseed my lawn for a long time and I think either this year or next year I finally will. ...
Jul 7, 2012

Growing Grass Indoors: Day 10

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After 10 days from planting my indoor grass  experiment is coming along nicely. Grass seeds are continuing to germinate and some blades of...
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Jul 1, 2012

Growing Grass Indors: Day 4

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It's day 4 of my indoor grass experiment and things are coming along nicely. More seeds have germinated and the blades of grass are an...
Jun 30, 2012

Growing Grass Indoors: Germination

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It's day 3 of my growing grass indoors project and I'm already seeing germination! Every night since I planted the  Jonathan Gr...

You Don't Need Plastic Edging

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I don't know what came over me but a few years ago I got it stuck in my head that I had to have plastic lawn edging. For some reason t...
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Jun 27, 2012

Growing Grass Indoors

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I always wanted a little planter of grass on my desk so I decided to try a little indoor grass growing experiment to see how well it turns...
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