Make Your Lawn Smile
Did you know that mowing height and frequency are key to a healthy happy lawn. While cutting your lawn short might seem convenient, it actually reduces nutrients in grass blades and exposes soil to sunlight giving weeds easier access to your lawn. Make your lawn happy by cutting at the height recommended for your grass.
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How To Mow Your Lawn In The Spring
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Gardening & Kids
Remember being a kid and digging in the dirt? It was terrific to find earthworms and catch ladybugs or grasshoppers.
Kids enjoy being outdoors but they need guidance so why not get them involved in gardening this spring and summer.
Big or small, gardening projects teach kids to nurture living plants, grow flowers, plants, and vegetables. By teaching them gardening you are also teaching kids responsibility and helping them gain self-esteem.
Depending on the age of the child they may be interested in simply playing or digging. Older kids may actually want to be more involved. They may want to pick what seeds they want to grow, you may also want to ask what they suggest is best to put in the vegetable garden. If you do not have a ton of room, no worries, children are just as happy with playing in potting soil in containers.
Tips
Invest in some kid-sized gardening tools. Tools made for adults are too big for little hands and can be frustrating to use. Be sure to get well made tools as cheap, plastic ones usually don't work very well and will break easily.
To help them understand what it takes to grow a garden try creating a garden chart to hang in the house. Kids can cross off (or get a gold star for) every task they complete -- from sowing seeds to watering to weeding.
For more information check out these tips from the national Gardening Association
http://www.garden.org/howtos/index.php?q=show&id=1309
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Trees and Shrubs can really enhance the beauty of your lawn.
When is it BEST to plant a tree?
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Climate can play a major deciding role when determining the appropriate planting time. Newly planted trees do best when exposed to moderate temperature and rainfall and they need time to root and acclimatize before the onset of intense heat and dryness of summer or the freezing temperatures of winter. Spring and early fall, therefore, are generally the best planting seasons (depending on your location) with spring preferred over fall in the more northerly latitudes.
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http://www.bhg.com/gardening/trees-shrubs-vines/trees/selecting-trees-for-your-yard/
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