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How to Get Rid of Bamboo in Your Yard
Natural & chemical solutions to remove & control bamboo Bamboo is a beautiful addition to any yard, but it can quickly spread and grow out of control. Luckily, there are several simple and effective ways to kill bamboo. ...
How to
Care for Venus Fly Traps
The Venus fly trap is an unusual plant that's native to the United States and thrives in a habitat where most other plants quickly perish. These intriguing carnivorous plants, with leaves that "snap" shut to trap insects...
5 Reasons Your Aloe Plant Is Dying (and How to Fix Them)
Revive a dying aloe vera plant with these simple strategiesWhen your aloe vera plant starts drooping, getting mushy leaves, or turning yellow and brown, it’s time to change up your plant care regimen. Over or underwate...
How to Prune an Apple Tree to Grow Better Fruit
Trimming your fruit trees for a perfect harvest every year Growing apples at home can be a rewarding experience, both in the process and the results. If you've been cultivating an apple tree and want to get maximum fruit...
How to
Prune Raspberries
While pruning raspberries may seem difficult, it helps stimulate new growth, produces a larger harvest, and removes disease and dead canes from your plant. Before pruning, it is important to learn the difference between ...
How to
Prune a Tree
Pruning helps trees grow strong and look neat and attractive. One prunes a tree to remove damaged branches, allow for new growth or create a distinctive shape. It's important to do it correctly, so you don't end up damag...
How to Know When a Dragon Fruit Is Ripe & Ready to Eat
Pick a dragon fruit that's sweet and ripe every timeDragon fruit, or pitaya, are cactus fruit that come in three types. They can have either red or yellow skin. The varieties with red skin can have white or red flesh, wh...
How to Prune a Plum Tree for a Beautiful Shape & Fruit Production
A year-by-year guide to shaping and pruning plum trees Plum trees need to be pruned once a year to help them retain a healthy shape and produce abundant fruit. You’ll use the same basic techniques each time you prune, ...
How to Plant & Grow a Pineapple at Home
Grow a thriving pineapple plant from a pineapple with these simple instructions With its sweet, tangy taste and unique shape, there’s not another fruit quite like the pineapple. If you’ve been wishing for a way to gr...
How to
Grow Avocados
Avocados — the smooth, creamy, nutrient-filled fruit that is essential to dishes like guacamole, can be grown from the pit that is leftover after eating the fruit. Though avocado trees grown from a pit can take quite s...
How to
Prune Blueberries
Regular pruning of blueberry bushes is important to keep them from becoming overgrown and unproductive. Training young blueberry bushes by pruning them regularly during the first two years promotes proper structure of th...
How to
Grow an Apple Tree from a Seed
You can grow apples from seed, but keep in mind that the type of apple tree you end up with might not be the same as the seed you planted. For example, if you plant a Granny Smith apple seed, you might not end up with a...
How to
Kill Mushrooms
Most mushrooms are beneficial to lawns, because they help break down dead material and return nutrients to the soil. They can, however, be a nuisance and can be a source of concern if you have children or pets, especiall...
How to
Grow Roses from Seed
Growing roses from seed can be challenging since the majority of seeds you collect often won't germinate regardless of your efforts. Fortunately, most rose plants produce a large number of seeds inside their rose hips, s...
How to Get Rid of Ant Nests in Potted Plants
Best chemical and natural products for killing ants in your houseplants Ants love to make homes in potted plants, drawn by the shelter and sweet secretions of other pests, like aphids. Although ants don’t actually do m...
How to
Build a Compost Pile
Building a compost pile is one of the easiest gardening projects you will ever undertake and one of the most important. Given time and exposure to elements, organic material will break down on its own. But you can also ...
How to
Grow Grapes from Seeds
Have you ever wanted to grow your own grapes? Grapevines are both beautiful and useful, and are one of the oldest plants to be cultivated. Grapes are typically reproduced from cuttings or grafts; however, if you are de...
How to Get Rid of English Ivy
Control invasive, creeping vines to protect your home and garden English ivy may be pleasing to the eye, but when it quietly creeps across the ground and up trees and buildings, it can smother or damage anything in its w...
How to
Treat Chinch Bugs Without Chemicals
True chinch bug adults are about ⅓" (8½ mm) long, and usually black with white wings (though they change colors several times as nymphs). If left alone, the chinch bugs will suck the sap out of your grass, leaving sol...
How to
Grow Cantaloupe
A freshly ripened cantaloupe straight from your own garden is one of the summer's greatest pleasures. There are hundreds of varieties of cantaloupe to choose from, but the classic Hale's Best, a popular melon with old-ti...
