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Hi everyone

Welcome to this edition of your Gardening Weekly, today's edition is entitled:

Understanding Soil

QUOTE: All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.
- Indian Proverb

Understanding the role that soil plays in the garden is one of the best assets that you can have as a gardener.
It is this knowledge that will allow you to create a healthier environment for your plants and get the maximum benefits from them.

In doing so, you will also make your own life easier, as a garden that is well managed from the soil up, is a garden that is a lot easier to manage, from one day to the next.

A garden that has good soil that has been fed with good nutrition over time will make growing almost anything easy for even the least experienced gardener.

Website Of Interest. Check out the following:
http://blog.mygardeninghome.com/soil.html

So how to you get good soil?

First you need to consider how plants grow and how they get their nutrition and that is through their roots.
Therefore, in order for the plants to grow well, they need to be in soil that allows their roots to get to the nutrition.
Obviously compact ground with little water, little air and poor nutrition will not produce the best plants.

Plants need water and air and this requires soil that has spaces to hold this air and water.
Therefore soil that is aerated will generally produce a better garden.  Once again it is all about balance, as soil that is too crumbly might not hold the nutrients as well, where the water might wash them away.  The soil also needs to be firm enough to support the growth of the plant otherwise it will topple over at the first sign of a wind.

The soil needs to have suitable nutrients and if any of these nutrients are out of balance, the pH scale that measures whether the soil is acidic or alkaline, will show why they are having difficulty absorbing the nutrients.

Website Of Interest. Check out the following:
http://blog.mygardeninghome.com/soil.html

Thanks,
Annie
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Raised beds are a good gardening technique for areas that have soil problems like poor drainage, too many rocks or plain old poor soil. Gardening in a raised bed allows you to bring in the best gardening soil. You can create raised beds …

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Hi everyone

Welcome to this edition of your Gardening Weekly, today's edition is entitled:

Moss

QUOTE: Gardening requires lots of water…
Most of it in the form of perspiration
- Lou Erickson

If you have moss on your lawn then this can be a sign of two main problems.  Either you have a drainage problem or poor nutrition.

With moss on your lawn you will need to remove as much of the moss as possible before you start to take action to prevent it from coming back again.

Aerating the lawn will help to solve the problem.  There are various ways that this can be done.

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The best way to aerate your lawn is with a coring machine that actually pulls small plugs of approximately 2 inches from the lawn.  It is possible to hire these machines or get a professional to do the job for you.  Alternatively you can aerate your lawn by using a garden fork and punching holes throughout the affected area.  This can be quite time consuming and tiring.

Another way to improve your lawn is to rake the lawn vigorously, and in doing so you will be removing the moss and any old grass clippings and other debris that is lying around.  This procedure is called scarifying.

You can then use a lawn specific moss killer to kill off any moss that is left.  It is important that you get a moss specifically formulated for lawns as ordinary moss killers can also kill your lawn.

As the moss dies it will turn black and the lawn might look unsightly for a while but once the moss has died you can scarify it again to remove the dead matter.

Scarifying the lawn will allow the water and fertilizer to reach the roots of the grass and improve the quality of your lawn.

In areas of your property where there is little or no sunlight and quite a lot of dampness, you might need to consider if it would be better to transform it into a garden that will cope better with the conditions than lawn.

Website Of Interest. Check out the following:
http://blog.mygardeninghome.com/lawncare.html

Thanks,
Annie
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It ranks above organic gardening. Really. Pruning is one of the most abused art forms in the horticulture industry. Many a winter day I cringe as I drive down the street looking at the poor helpless butchered trees. …

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