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Plan Ahead: How To Prepare Your Garden For Summer
Winter is over, the clocks have sprung forward and you should make use of some of those extra daylight hours to sort out the garden so you can make the most of the great outdoors when summer truly arrives. Here are a few tips on the important things you can do in your garden at this time of year. Get the bedding ready As the temperatures turn warmer it is time to swap the bed for bedding plants. These will provide much of the wonderful colour that will make your garden such a nice place to spend the evenings and weekends in the coming months. The end April is a…
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How to keep your lawns in good condition
To get the lawns with a perfect look throughout the year takes many care and proper maintenance. Obviously the main point in the lawns care is watering, but always in perspective, since over-watering can be detrimental to the lawns as the soil hardens and therefore could hinder grass growth, plus an excess of water carries nutrients and removes and can cause the growth of fungus. It is important to know how and when to water, which is determined by the type of terrain that we have, needing more water and sandy soils with slopes, less water and clay areas with more shade. You also need to know that it is…
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Caring for your lawn: enrich the soil with fertilizer
To get a nice green garden all year round, it takes lot of care for the lawns. Main lawn care you need is irrigation, but without going over, as over watering does not bring any good but it could harden the soil, making grass growth, and too much water could drag nutrients and eliminate them. The amount of water required is determined by the area and the type of soil, since the sloping sandy soils and require a greater amount of water, while the clay and require fewer dark areas. It is much better to water less often but for longer, thus allowing water to penetrate the soil deeply, as…
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Artificial turf installation and Maintenance tips
Artificial turf installation in the home is more comfortable and less expensive to maintain than natural grass, but also requires some care, both to maintain the aesthetics, to ensure good hygiene and increase durability, as if care well it can be maintained in perfect condition up to 15 years, this is one of the great advantages of artificial turf. Routine maintenance to make the artificial turf is simply brushing, whose frequency depends on how you use the lawn, but at least once a week. It is achieved by brushing maintain the fibers in an upright position, it will therefore be necessary to brush in all directions, because otherwise it could…
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Lounges on the terrace: a tendency for all seasons
One of the trends in more tax in the past year has been creating functional spaces in outside. No longer think of the gardens and terraces just for organizing summer barbecues or playing with children during the afternoons of spring: the inner life moves outdoors designing living rooms complete outdoors. Blankets and stoves let you enjoy long hours on the terrace under the suns of autumn and winter. Be amazed by this selection of living areas on the terrace, and take note of all the tips to create your own outdoor room. Livings on the terrace: the best designs, the best tips: Colors that explode Not require too many ornaments…
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How to Choose of garden furniture
As a complement to the previous articles in which we talked about home garden, today we bring some decorating tips to help you pick the best outdoor furniture. So, if you already have prepared your garden and considering the idea of buying some decorative furniture, it would be useful to note that many resources available that will fit right into the outdoor areas. We speak of material such as steel, wicker, wrought iron or wood exterior, which besides offering excellent resistance, will be fabulous in your garden, it provides the possibility of combining, thus decorating the garden with style. Whereupon, to make a good choice for your furniture in…
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Furniture for Outdoor: Take a rest in Home Garden
Enjoy the garden is one of those little pleasures that you can afford when you have a hectic lifestyle and pace of work and activities that keep you out of home frequently. Just going to the garden and getting comfortable, you can enjoy a different time and relaxing, today we show you outdoor furniture ideal for enjoying in your garden. The furniture serves as a place to relax and read a good book is modular style allowing you to put your taste and depending on the number of people who will use it, either two rows or one, this model gives you the comfort you need. …
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What you should know for a green garden lawn
As we discussed in previous articles, it is advisable to have an organic garden, a garden that will greatly facilitate the daily care of yourself and help you to save at all times. Today we continue to build tricks and ideas, to simply change your ecological garden. To put this in the previous article we ended up talking for solar street lamps and the consequences of overuse of fertilizers. It is advisable to cover the ground at the foot of the plants, with different materials, as they can be shredded pine bark, compost, peat, compost, grass, leaves, pine needles, among others. This technique is called padding or mulching. The padding…
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Tips for organic gardening
For those who have gardens or in plans to build a new one in this fall, it would be advisable to adapt it in an environmentally, especially to achieve a lower water cost, which eventually can provide some savings economy. Got to have an organic garden is really easy and simply must follow all or some of the advice we give below. First you must consider the choice of native plants, since they are the most resistant to water shortages, disease, pests and poor soils. It is very advisable to group the species of plants according to their water needs. As we know, not all plants need the same amount…
