| Home & Garden Showplace Taps into Lawn and Garden Yellow Pages to Reach Consumers Online | | Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 2:57:10 PM by Blog57 Team | | Woodbine, MD (PRWeb) February 6, 2007 -- Home & Garden Showplace announced today it will collaborate with Lawn and Garden Yellow Pages (www.LGYP.com) in an effort to reach consumers through the Internet. As homeowners' interest in the outdoor living category continues to grow, the alliance enables Home & Garden Showplace to enhance its brand, align its marketing based on consumer behavior and attract new customers on a more local level. .... | |
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| | | Fluctuating Winter Temperatures Confusing for Plant Life | | Posted Wednesday, January 17, 2007 1:04:19 PM by Blog57 Team | | Nancy Mason picks up another plant for her garden. She says she enjoys watching her garden bloom but didn't expect it to start so early. Mason, "All of our tulips and buttercups are beginning to bloom, the normal temperature is about 80 degrees in March of April and once they bloom I'm afraid our blooms will be gone." Even though rain is in the forecast, around town you can see early signs of Spring. Barn Nursery Manager Sara Melton says many people come in confused, asking for gardening tips. With temperatures fluctuating from 40 to 70 degrees, many plants don't know how to respond. Sara Melton, "It's been really warm for the last 30 days and so we have perennials and bulbs that have started to come out of the ground a few inches and we usually see that in February or March." Tomorrow's temperature will only hit about 40 degrees.... | |
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| | | Garden Master Tips from WSU Master Gardeners: Web site ... | | Posted Monday, November 27, 2006 1:05:18 PM by Blog57 Team | | Winter is approaching -- nature's forced ending of another gardening season. Winter creates mixed emotions for most gardeners, who mourn the loss of time spent outdoors, yet celebrate the addition of unfettered time. Time to reflect on last season and plan for next spring. Time to read and dream How do you spend these extra winter hours? Many gardeners spend this time improving their gardening knowledge: reading books, browsing plant catalogues, and searching through piles of seed catalogues. Time well spent, but let's not forget our newest source of gardening information -- the World Wide Web. As authors of web site gardening articles, we recommend spending some of your free time searching (and finding) gardening information on the Internet. Unfortunately, there are so many garden-related web sites that a gardener could get eyestrain, or worse, carpal tunnel syndrome, from endless searching.... | |
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| | | NZ Gardener celebrates local gardening talent | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 11:16:57 AM by Blog57 Team | | The upcoming Pacific Rose Bowl Festival is an inspirational celebration of local gardening talent, says Lynda Hallinan, Editor of NZ Gardener. “The Pacific Rose Bowl Festival has always highlighted the best of the Waikato’s roses and the ‘green fingers’ who grow them,” she says. “This show in particular is a real tribute to local gardeners, and I recommend all keen gardeners head along to Hamilton Gardens over the week to see the displays.” The Pacific Rose Bowl Festival is on at Roger’s Rose Garden, Hamilton Gardens, from Wednesday 15 November through to Sunday 19 November. Public judging of the New Zealand Rose of the Year will take place Wednesday through to Friday, with a special program for the weekend, including the Matthews & McGredy Rose Garden Tour.... | |
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| | | Backyard alchemy | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 10:59:26 AM by Blog57 Team | | Late fall is the perfect time to start a compost or expand an existing one. As nature enters a slower period, gardeners find a sudden bounty of materials including leaves, jack-o-lanterns and retired annual flowers and food crops. Food scraps and plant clippings are an essential addition year round. Making your own compost provides one of the best tools to loosen our region's clay soils. It also cuts gardening costs, trash bills and landfill demand. Food waste alone represents almost 7 percent of municipal waste nationally according to the EPA. Operational regulations prevent local green waste from accepting leftovers and other "post-consumer" food matter, so recycling these au naturale at home is especially beneficial. Recipe for Success The Jackson County Master Gardeners Association Garden Guide offers tips for easy composting, starting with balancing materials rich in carbon and nitrogen.... | |
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| | | Garden Mastery Tips from WSU Master Gardeners: WINTER CONTAINER PLANT CARE | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 3:04:59 PM by Blog57 Team | | The key to all-season container planting is making sure that both pots and plants can withstand the most inclement weather they are likely to endure. Many plants that are perfectly hardy in the ground will perish if left outdoors in a pot. Even plants that are quite hardy will not tolerate frozen roots. Therefore, they must be protected from freezes, heavy winds, and other wintry hazards. This involves selecting the right plants and containers, paying careful attention to where they are placed, and providing timely maintenance. Plants in containers on rooftops and balconies will experience lower temperatures and strong winds. Similarly, decks are more hostile to container plants than terraces because the air circulating under, as well as above, the plants will quickly freeze-burn the roots.... | |
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| | | FALL GARDENING FEVER | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 11:03:03 AM by Blog57 Team | | Fall is one of the busiest times in the garden. Even spring, the season when most people get planting fever, doesn't measure up to the amount of planting that goes on now. It's prime planting time for hardy trees, shrubs, ground covers and vines. We also are preparing beds and planting fall and winter vegetables and herbs, while changing out flower beds to replace warm-season bedding plants with cool-season ones that will provide color from now until next spring. About the only things we aren't planting now are tropicals, and it's getting late to lay sod. With all of this activity, we need to remember to take care of ourselves as we work in our gardens. Gardening is a well-documented and beneficial form of exercise. It contributes to a healthy lifestyle, and I am always impressed when I meet people in their 70s, 80s and even 90s who are still actively gardening.... | |
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| | | Free clinic teaches Florida gardening tips | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 1:08:46 PM by Blog57 Team | | NORTH PORT -- Gardening in Florida can be a daunting task if you don't know what you're doing. Despite the almost tropical climate, not every plant will grow well here. It takes experience to know what works best. People For Trees, Inc. is offering a free one-hour clinic on Oct. 21 so you can learn everything you need to get started with an efficient Florida garden. You'll get tips on how and what to plant so your yard will use less water, require less fertilizer, and demand less maintenance. "We show people how to stop wasting money on plants that don't work," said Alice White of People For Trees, Inc. "This is a great opportunity for people who have just moved to Florida and don't know how to get started." White said gardening in this climate is much different from growing a beautiful lawn in the north, and it is easy to be discouraged if you don't understand the differences.... | |
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| | | Police seek tips on victim | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 3:07:12 PM by Blog57 Team | | Coos County criminal investigators are asking for the public's assistance in the ongoing investigation into the murder of a Eureka, Calif., man who went missing last January.According to a press release from Coos County Deputy District Attorney R. Paul Frasier, investigators need more information to proceed with the investigation into the murder of Jonathan Peters.Peters, 27, had been living in Eureka, Calif., where he was looking for work and planning to attend a nearby college, according to investigators. Sometime in late January, he and a roommate, Brian Campbell, 26, came to Coos County to work for several days with Adam and Eve's Gardening, a landscaping company located in Isthmus Heights. .... | |
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| | | Home Grown: Many fall vegetables will grow in containers | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 3:11:31 PM by Blog57 Team | | If you are interested in intensive gardening, set some vegetable plants in containers and locate them on the south side of your house or apartment. These fall garden plants could be considered a kitchen garden and should be much more productive than crops on ground level. Cool-season vegetables require full sunlight as well as suitable moisture, air, fertility and temperature. Use 1-gallon pots for beets, carrots, Swiss chard, lettuce, onions and radishes; 2-gallon sizes for beans, mustard and turnips; 3-gallons for broccoli; and 5-gallons for cabbage and cauliflower. Two or more plants may be set in a container that is larger than listed above. The containers must be filled with fertile potting mix and have good drainage. Self-watering containers can ease maintenance.... | |
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