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Growing organic plants is easy, even if you’re a beginner. However, keeping your garden fresh and capable of producing natural, healthy plants all year round can be somewhat of a challenge. If you want to start, and try out your luck with it, however, the following tips should help you: • First prepare your bed about 3 weeks before you plant your first seeds. Introduce material from your compost pile, then rake the surface of your garden. For the next three weeks, remove the weeds that come up, until your soil is ready for planting your first crop. • Water the soil lightly before, rather than after planting your first seeds. Make sure it’s moist but not too wet. • Sow the seeds into a trench, or place 2-3 individual seeds in each planting hole. • Cover the seeds with soil, then press the soil gently from above to make sure the seeds have good contact with it. Some seeds, such as lettuce or dill, will require sunlight to sprout, so just sprinkle them lightly with soil. • Continue s...

Unlike cats, dogs are animals that have to go outside to “take care of business,” and unless you have a well-trained dog, that can become a big problem when it comes to your humble back yard grass. Dog urine is uncommonly rich in nitrates that actually burn through your grass. It leaves yellow, dried up patches behind that remain unsightly and can be harder to deal with later on. So how do you keep your dog from ruining your grass? One of the simplest and most straightforward ways to achieve this is to train your dogs to pee in a grass-free area of your yard. This can include patches of dirt and soil found behind your shed, or in other areas that aren’t directly visible by visitors or neighbors. To train your dog, accompany him outside, and get his attention when he chooses a patch of grass to go potty. You can then guide him to an area of your choosing. Dogs are smart, so just by repeating this action a few times, you’ll already get your dog to finish his business in a location of y...

A lot of people across the US are complaining that they can’t keep a green lawn all summer. This is largely because of intense sunlight, but also because grass may require different type of care in different areas – especially considering the many types of grass there are out there. If you want to care for your lawn properly, you’ll have to learn more, not about how much work you should put into it, but about the timing of your work. Proper cutting, fertilizing, watering and aerating is the key to having a beautiful lawn for most of the year. The trick is to perform all these tasks at the right time. How do you do that? It’s quite simple: 1. Adjust grass height according to the time of the year. For the start of summer, use a 1-1/2 inch cutting height, then increase by half an inch during the heat of the summer, and decrease it back near the end. For warm-climate grasses you should keep the height about ½ of an inch shorter. 2. Make sure your grass gets about 1 to 2 inches of water...