Garden Care & Maintenance
Specific instructions and information about caring for your plants and gardens.
- Soil Drainage
How to easily determine if you have well drained soil.
- Flopping Plants
It can be very frustrating to see huge blooms bend a weak stem, or the whole plant splaying outward under the weight of summer growth and exposing a bare center. There are several things that may cause floppy plants but there are some things gardeners can do to prevent it or at least shore up weak stems.
- Garden Mulch
Understand why, when and how to mulch.
- No Work Garden?
A no work garden may not be realistic but it is a great goal. There are many things you can do to dramatically reduce the work in your gardens and landscape.
- Pinching Back
There are a variety of reasons to pinch back plants, and sometimes timing is very important
- Deadheading
How, when, why and what to deadhead. Most flowering plants, annuals, perennials and some flowering shrubs, will benefit from removing the dead blooms.
- Summer Weeding
Tips and strategies for weeding the gardens efficiently.
- Watering Your Plants
It may seem simple, and to be sure just giving your plants water when they need it is most important, but there are many things you need to pay attention to to properly water the gardens.
- Rain vs. Tap Water
Is Rain Water Better than City Tap Water for Plants?
- Caring for Hanging Baskets
Tips to make caring for your hanging baskets of annuals easier.
- Caring for Plants in Extreme Heat
Strategies for the special care our plants need in extreme heat.