For your Vegetable and Fruit Garden: Cover the garden beds that will be used for vegetables with black plastic to kill weeds and warm the soil for the weeks leading up to the time of planting. This method is also needed when you are also using the no-till method. Sow more rows of lettuce, carrots [Continue]
Ornamental grass can be used for many different things when it comes to landscaping. Today we are going to touch on the top 14 uses! Add Privacy: Tall grasses bunched together can create a perfect solution for screening! For the best effects, chose tall species such as big bluestem, moor grass, or ravennagrass. Keep [Continue]
Prune is not just a food (Click to Tweet). Eating prunes helps to digest food and get rid of the “bad” in our bodies; the process of pruning is to get rid of the “bad” off plants. As soon as you notice anything dead, diseased or damaged you’re going to want to get rid of [Continue]
Perhaps, the home of your dreams is perfect on the inside but the outside could definitely use some work. You can’t wait to start chopping, building and planting to show all your neighbours that what’s on the outside is mirrored on the inside. Why not turn ordinary into extraordinary the right way, the first time. [Continue]
This week we deiced to focus on the importance of landscape edging! So here they are… Eight reasons why you should use landscape edging! Landscape Edging creates very defining lines between flower beds and other areas. Check out this before and after photo! Although Landscape edging can be most visible between a lawn and the [Continue]
It might be hard to think about gardening when the wind is blistering and the snow is blowing, but that doesn’t mean you can’t! The cold weather is the perfect time for planning for the spring! If your anything like I used to be, you’re probably thinking you can just grab a few packs of [Continue]
It is very difficult to imagine what a yard would look like in the winter, but the winter brings an entirely new landscape with colours, textures, and shapes that cannot be seen at any other time of the year. What if the coming winter meant five months of beauty without staking, pruning or watering a [Continue]
As the winter months approach us very quickly, the plants are asleep and their colors disperse, leaving a variety of shades of white and gray. It’s too cold and icy to plant anything in the Winter, but with careful planning in the spring, summer, and fall, you can have a beautiful landscape that shines in [Continue]
This is a question I was pondering on the weekend. My wife wanted me to create a garden for her in the back yard. As I was thinking about pressure treated wood, I was wondering if it was even safe to grow plants around. Would they soak up the chemicals from the wood and my [Continue]
I found an interesting article weighing the various options for landscape edging. I got a kick out of the line for aluminum edging “You’ll have to talk to your favorite garden center and beg them to order some for you”. You can just as easily place an order with us, and it will show up [Continue]
