207 articles on "plants"

What Do Sheep Eat? - Diet For Raising Healthy Sheep

Sheep are largely grazing herbivores, unlike browsing animals such as goats and deer that favor taller plants. With a much narrower features, sheep crop plants very close to the ground and can overgraze a grazing land much quicker than cattle. For th...

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How To Use Biennials & Perennials In Landscaping Your Garden

How To Use Biennials & Perennials In Landscaping Your Garden by: Paul Curran Biennials: Biennials are generally very beautiful plants, with most attractive flowers. They are somewhat more trouble for the gardener, since they keep growing during...

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Turn Your Patio Into A Voluminous Vegetable Garden

Turn Your Patio Into A Voluminous Vegetable Garden by: Jill Homer My first apartment was a second-story condo in an urban complex, far displaced from the groomed suburban landscapes and sprawling gardens I had grown up with. My only connection t...

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How To Use Biennials & Perennials In Landscaping Your Garden

BiennialsBiennials are generally very beautiful plants, with most attractive flowers. They are somewhat more trouble for the gardener, since they keep growing during their first year and do not bloom until the second. Their great advantage is that t...

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Caring for aquatic pond plants

Caring for aquatic plantsLong after the impatiens have been pulled out, water gardeners are still hoping for that last lily bloom. For some reason, we want to squeeze every leaf, bud and blossom out of our aquatic plants before winter. Unfortunately,...

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Japanese car industry at a standstill

Following the devastation of the earthquake and tsunami which ripped through many areas in the North of Japan several weeks ago, several major Japanese car companies have suspended production and some factories of the country's biggest car manuf...

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Pest Control for the Vegetable Garden

One of the biggest challenges for vegetable gardeners is pest control. Anyone who has tried to keep a determined deer from eating the sweet corn knows how difficult it can be to deter animals, including insects, birds, rabbits and other wildlife from...

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Gardening In Any Economic Climate

Gardening can have many significant benefits; whether it is for self-gratification; off-setting grocery bills; fresh herbs for dinner; or lending a helping hand to the environment. However, in this economic climate many have had to rethink their livi...

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Flowers, An Annual Event

Flowers, An Annual Event by: Frederic Madore Are you a natural when it comes to gardening? Do you simply wish your rose bush to bloom, and presto, roses appear? Well, if you are a green thumb, congratulations. As for me, it is an effort of bibli...

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Garden Weeds and How to Kill Them Effectively

There are many ways that the garden weeds affect the growth of plants in the garden. The garden weeds sprout all by themselves in favorable conditions and especially when there is no way to keep them contained or the maintenance of the garden is negl...

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