How To Properly Use A Shovel

A good wire brush and a good file can go a long way toward keeping your shovel clean and sharp and ready to dig. But I happened to see my chiropractor the other day, and it reminded me that the first time I ever went to the chiropractor was because I was digging a hole [...]

Proper Care For Your Lawn And Garden Equipment

First thing in the spring, every spring, you need to maintain your lawn and garden equipment. A roto-tiller that doesn’t work is no better than a boat anchor.
The first thing to check is the gas tank. If you’ve left gas in your tank over winter, even with something like Sta-Bil in it to keep it [...]

Planning Ahead For Your Vegetable Garden

Most people think that the first step in gardening is tilling the soil, but it isn’t. You’ve got to plan first.
Now there are two really important reasons for planning your garden on paper before you put a spade in the ground. And the first is; with planning it tells you exactly how many plants or [...]

How To Find The Right Gardening Gloves

I have had the same gloves for several years. And the fact is I never used to wear gloves when I worked. But I find as I get older that the protection from the environment, of gloves, is well worth it.
Fact of the matter though is, as I look for gloves I find that they [...]

How To Label Plants In Your Garden

It seems that there’s always plenty to do in the landscape, and one of the things that we need to do toward the end of summer is label our perennial plants, so that next spring when we’re planting new things, we can remember what we’ve got. Believe it or not, you’ll forget.
And an easy way [...]

Hot Tips To Make Gardening Easier

One of the ways to make gardening fun is to make it easy. Now sometimes you are doing a job that ought to be easy but for some reason it is not. And it’s backbreaking, tedious, or boring work.
Here’s a case in point. You have a steel rake and you’re trying to rake some twigs [...]