1. Be Smart–Have a Plan
Create an overall design plan that considers your family’s needs for this landscape. A well-c...
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Eight tasks for the winter season to ensure your landscape is ready for spring growth.
Remove finished and dead plants
Overwintering plant...
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Every square foot of soil can be different. Soil acidity and nutrients vary across the surface of the soil and with the depth of the...
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The Auburn University Soil Testing Laboratory report includes: your intended crop(s), the soil group your sample belongs to, soil p...
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Learn about selecting containers and potting mixtures, as well as planting, fertilizing, and watering. Gain tips for mixed-plant con...
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There are a number of considerations to be made when preparing to grow vegetable transplants for your home garden, including sowing the seed...
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Follow this planting guide for growing cooler-weather produce that thrives.
Many vegetables are well adapted to planting in...
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Within the last decade, Leyland cypress has been widely used in residential and commercial landscapes across Alabama not only as a specimen ...
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You’ve worked hard to grow healthy sweet potatoes. Keep them that way off the vine using these best practices.
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The word compost is derived from two Latin words meaning “together” and “to bring.” In one sense, it involves bringing together wast...
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The camellia has long been a pampered and cherished plant, considered more delicate and difficult to grow than it really is. Gardene...
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Learn to recognize, monitor, and manage thrips, a major pest of ornamentals. Thrips management requires thought about integration of control...
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