Doug Greens Garden : gardening as if my best life depended on it
I was at a garden party the other day and when several small insects - gentle giants - bumblebees - zoomed across the garden, our hostess went ever-so-slightly berserk. Indeed, while you may wonder …
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Let me give you the real deal on controlling algae or green water in your pond using barley straw. Lots of websites would love to sell you this material (at some incredible prices) so here's how you …
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This spring I moved our compost bin into the redesigned vegetable garden. It was an attempt to make the compost where we'd use it rather than having to dig and move it a hundred feet. And that's …
Pond scum is pretty much an ugly thing in the backyard pond and usually results from a complete unbalancing of the water system. You'll recognize it because of the floating algae that is coalescing …
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I have (and need) a lot of garden hoses. So first thing in the spring, I pull the hoses out from underneath the porch and lay them out in the backyard to begin the sorting. The big black ones are …
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I hear about folks putting down landscape fabric all the time and then asking me why their garden never seems to grow properly so I thought I'd clear up some of the myths and misconceptions around …
