Nicole Vulcan
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Stories By Nicole Vulcan
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How To Make A Garden With Pebble Ground Cover
How to Make a Garden With Pebble Ground Cover. Using a ground cover around your plants is more than an aesthetic choice. Sure, it gives your garden a finished look, but also helps the soil retain moisture. Pebbles make a fine ground cover for your garden, but because they're so small, you'll need to take steps to ensure the pebbles stay in place. While it's best to do this before you plant any plants in the garden, you can also add a layer of pebble mulch to an existing garden.
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How To Neaten Up A Messy Flax Plant
How to Neaten Up a Messy Flax Plant. With its spiky leaves and myriad of color possibilities, flax plants can be a lovely ornamental addition to your garden. Ornamental gardeners typically plant the genus Phormium, which includes the New Zealand Flax and Mountain Flax species. Phormiums are recommended in USDA hardiness zones 7 through 11, so if you live in a mild climate you can plant your plants directly in the ground without much fear of losing them to frost. Growing them in the ground may mean that your plants get big and messy over time; that's when a good pruning job is in order.
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How To Grow Sugar Beets For Deer Plots
How to Grow Sugar Beets for Deer Plots. Simply put, deer love sugar beets (Beta vulgaris). The plants' green tops provide a crunchy salad for populations of deer to munch upon while the sweet roots, according to a Heartland Outdoors article, are like deer candy. If you want to attract deer to your yard for hunting or even for pure enjoyment, you'll do well to plant a crop of sugar beets. Sugar beets are annual plants that grow in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 2 through 10, making them a viable crop nearly everywhere in the United States.
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