Home and Garden
Adaptive Gardening: Gardening with Limitations
Tools for Easier Gardening
Ergonomic tools were originally designed for senior citizens and those with physical ailments, both young and old.
Backyard Livestock
Flowers
Cut Flowers
A guide to purchasing, caring for and growing cut flowers.
Growing Ferns
Fern classification, potting, planting, propagation and more.
Lily Leaf Beetle
Description, life-cycle and control of the Lily Leaf Beetle on garden lilies
Plan Now for Indoor Spring Flowers
Forcing spring bulbs is easy to do and far less expensive than buying pots of
flowers from retail establishments that do the growing for you.
Forage Crops
General Gardening
General Pest Control
Home Lawns
Fall is a Great Time to Lime
Lime is applied directly to the soil of your lawn to increase the soil pH. Soil pH, a
measure of the soil’s acidity or alkalinity, can directly influence the vigor and quality of
your home lawn.
Home Water Supply
Houseplants
Indoor and Yard Pests/Human Health
Insect Pests of Plants
Lily Leaf Beetle
Description, life-cycle and control of the Lily Leaf Beetle on garden lilies
Landscape Design
Landscape Topics
A Low-Tech Water Garden
Picture yourself sitting in the shade on a hot summer day, lazily sipping iced tea,
listening to the gentle trickle of water into a lovely pond of water lilies—in your very own
garden. Impossible, you say. Just think of all those pumps, filters, liners, running
electricity to the pond, digging the pond, maintaining the pond! Not so, I say. With the
basic equipment of a pool liner and an outside water faucet you can have exactly what I
have described at modest expense.
Nuisance Wildlife
Plant Diseases
Small Fruit
Tree Fruit
Trees and Shrubs
Propagating Trees and Shrubs
Propagating from cuttings is a relatively simple way to make new plants at virtually no cost. It’s also a great way to replicate sentimental favorites. Plant pieces are clipped from the parent plant and rooted to form new plants; these are called rooted cuttings. If all goes well, you should be able to produce tiny,new plants in 6 to 8 weeks.
Vegetables and Herbs
Weeds
Wood Heat