Two Old Gardeners and a Blog

If by chance you are using a weed killer and it accidentally gets on to your plants you should hose it off immediately. The sooner you can do this the less chance of damage affecting the condition of your plant.
Sometimes while we are spraying elsewhere a wind can carry the spray to other plants and […]

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Climbing flower vines are an excellent addition to any garden, but they’re particularly useful for areas of the garden which need a bit more privacy. If your neighbors live a bit too close for comfort for instance, you can plant fast growing flower vines along a fence to block the view between your yards. If […]

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While you are attending to the health of our plants, you too are improving our own health. Both physically and mentally. Even the relatively light work of weeding the garden is good exercise. And boy oh boy - weeding is never finished.
Garden is good for all ages. But particularly for elderly people it is an […]

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Miniature gardens are beautiful to look at and as easy to plant. When planting a miniature garden, you need to think about where you want to have miniature gardens. A big glass bowl or terrariums make great indoor miniature gardens. You have a huge variety of plants and flowers you can use in indoor miniature […]

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Just like people, plants have their own particular requirements and it is not the best policy (understatement of the year!) to assume they all need the same feeding. Some plants need a lot of love whereas others require very little.
Most important rule: there needs to be balance in the garden. If you feed your plants too much […]

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There are many different types of pests that can ruin your good work in the garden. The most common are insects and they can destroy a garden in a very short time if left to their own devices. Even the neighbor’s cat can be a pest if it is always using your garden as a […]

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Would you do me a favor? I’d like to know what you think of your garden. Is it the garden you always anted? Close to the garden you always wanted or just a mess…?
All I ask you is to answer one smple question: is your garden the garden you always wanted? It’ll take you 5 […]

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While gardening can (and is supposed!) be good for your health, there are many occasions when your knees might disagree….
It often seems a lot easier to kneel down when working on low areas of the garden, but in doing so on a regular basis you can damage the delicate area of the knees causing swelling […]

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For some people, just the fact that weeds create green in their garden is enough for them to allow the weeds to continue growing. I call ‘m Weed Lovers :). Weed Lovers are hard pressed to pull something out that looks pretty. Let me tell you: that’s not the right attitude when it comes to […]

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Shade gardening is a type of gardening many new gardeners don’t think of. Most seem to think that in order to have a beautiful blooming garden, you need to put plants in areas that get sunlight. That’s BS. Excuse me, I mean, that’s not entirely true. In fact there are some shade loving plants that […]

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