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Planting Flowers? Get Some Edging or Borders!

msuwriter — Thu, 19 May 2011 03:38:13 +0000

You may have begun to plan gorgeous flowers in your garden, but is something missing? Perhaps it is gorgeous borders or beneficial edging! Adding edging or borders will give your garden a more “finished” look.

Besides having a nice look edging will help keep the flower soil separate from the rest of your lawn. This can be a benefit when you want to keep the soil in your flower bed from overflowing onto your grass. It also can work vice versa and keep grass from creeping in and starting to grow within your flower bed.

If you are looking for the benefits above, you need to get some edging! A product that is very long lasting is the Ultra-Edge Composite Garden Edging. While it is easy to bend this edging to fit your desired shape, it will never crack. The Ultra-Edge Composite Garden Edging can be ordered in brown or green, so you can pick whichever color you feel would best match your garden. If you are looking for black edging, you could get the Master Gardner Series Professional Recycled Black Edging. It is an environmentally friendly way to make your garden look great

If you are looking for a beautiful addition to your garden, borders are the way to go! There are so many borders that have such beautiful designs. You can be sure to find one that will match your backyard decor. One of my favorites is the Double Scroll Steel Edging (Case of 20), which has the classic scroll design. For a different design, you should consider the Canterbury Steel Garden Edging (Case of 20), which is pictured above. Not only could you use the Double Scroll Steel Edging (Case of 20) and Canterbury Steel Garden Edging (Case of 20) to line your garden beds, but you could use it to line walkways, driveway, or even your patio or porch!

Not only is there edging and borders that can prevent grass from spreading to your flower garden, but there is also landscape paper that can prevent weeds from doing the same! The WeedBlock Mulch Landscape Paper suppresses weed growth, while allowing your garden’s plants to get the air and water they crave. The WeedBlock Mulch Landscape Paper is perfect for organic gardening and can be used on annuals or even vegetable plants.

Shape Up Your Spring Garden with Landscaping Fabric, Pins, and Edging

WildBirds — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:53:02 +0000

Before you put down your mulch this spring, make sure to properly line your flower beds, gardens, and more with landscaping fabric and edging for a more finished look. By using landscaping paper in your garden, not only does it help prevent the weeds from growing, but it also helps to keep your mulch in place and helps prevent it from sinking into the soil. Once you have the landscaping fabric down, use edging to help keep the fabric and mulch in place and to give your flower beds and more a clean and neat look.

There are a variety of great landscaping fabrics that will make your weeding job much easier throughout the spring and summer and are made with earth friendly materials that make lining the area easy. A great landscaping fabric to use that blocks out weeds and more is the WeedBlock Mulch Landscape Paper by Easy Gardener. This landscaping fabric is approved for use in organic gardens and is made with no chemicals to be safe for all of your plantings. It is made of recycled paper and when the growing season is over, just till it back into the soil. The natural color of this landscaping fabric blends in well with the mulch and plantings.

Use the Green Fabric Pins by Dewitt to help keep the landscaping fabric in place. Place a pin every two to three inches to keep the landscaping fabric in place. These pins may be used with lightweight landscaping fabrics by folding over the edge and then placing a pin through the fabric.

Finally, to give your garden a clean and neat look, use landscaping edging like the Ultra-Edge Composite Garden Edging by Easy Gardener. This edging is easy to install and made to last for many years in your garden. It can be used around a flower bed, garden, walkway, around a tree, and more and leaves your yard looking polished.

Save Time Weeding by Installing Earth Friendly Organic or Recycled Landscape Fabric

admin — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:00:00 +0000

Weeds are very resilient plants and can be a great nuisance to any gardener. When creating a new flower bed, garden area, or hardscape is a great idea to put down landscape fabric before you start. Landscape fabric is great for helping to prevent weeds from growing in your garden and can last for many years. Before you get started, it is a good idea to layout where your plants, flowers, shrubs, or vegetables will be placed.

There are some great environmentally friendly products that work great to prevent weeds from growing in your garden. Easy Gardener makes some of these great products that are perfect for a variety of gardens and hardscapes.

For organic gardeners, the WeedBlock Mulch Landscape Paper is ideal for preventing weeds from growing in the soil and will not harm your organic flower or vegetable garden. The mulch paper is made from recycled paper and is approved for organic gardens by the Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI). Just roll out the paper in the desired area and secure with dirt, spikes, rocks, mulch or another garden material. Cut holes in the paper for your plants and place your plants in the dirt. The mulch paper will help prevent weeds from growing around your plants, yet it still allows water and air to get to the plant’s roots. Plants receive the nutrients they need to grow big and healthy without the hassle of weeding. After the growing season is over, just till the paper into the soil like a compost.

Another environmentally friendly solution for preventing weeds is the WeedBlock Recycled Landscape Fabric, which is made from recycled plastic bottles. This fabric is long-lasting and ideal for hardscapes, flower beds or landscaping. After laying down this fabric, you will not have to worry about weeds for a long time. The fabric is porous enough to allow water and air to get to plant roots to allow for healthy growth. Just use fabric spikes to secure the fabric to the soil and cut holes for plants, shrubs, flowers, and more.

Whatever fabric you decide to use, you will be happy with the results and have more time to enjoy your garden instead of weeding it! Check out Backyard Style for all of your landscaping needs!

Protect your plants with Round Folding Fence

admin — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:00:00 +0000

This is a true story based on a personal planting experience…………………..Names may have been changed to protect the innocent…………………

“And Then There Was One…………………”

True story of the last tulip standing:

What happens when plants go unprotected.

by Carol A Kalvelage

Hello……………….

I am a novice gardener. I can admit that today. Without the fear of being ridiculed. I can admit that I do not know the difference between a plant and a weed sometimes. I no longer bear the shame of being the daughter of a master gardener who’s thumb was as green as emeralds. My mother’s gardens were, and still are, filled with flowers of every shape, color and size. Cactus, roses, ferns, poppies, those little white flowers, whatever…………My mom could make anything grow. I swear that it even seemed as if some flowers grew right out of the rocks that were used as a border to protect the delicate petals.

Now in retrospect, I think that should have been my first clue as to becoming a successful gardener. Using borders to protect plants. There always seemed to be little fences, and spiky things, and rock walls that would keep the good stuff in, and the bad stuff out- like lawnmowers, feet, animals, weed whackers. All the stuff that can be very damaging to flowers. Little did I know how important it was to keep a border around the precious plants to help them thrive while danger lurked about.

So last year I decided to plant some tulip bulbs, out in a nice sunny spot, around my mailbox at the end of the driveway. I put a decorative rock (aka, slab of slate) near the spot where I planted my tulips so I knew where to look for the flowers come spring. Also, I wanted to know where I planted them so I would not back up and run them over with my truck. That was my primary concern. Never mind that we live in a deer and squirrel infested subdivision where flowers are chomped the minute they bloom and bulbs are dug up faster than planted.

In any case, my tulips at the end of the driveway thrived. That was after I lifted the cement slab off of the buds that were trying to come up out of the ground. Sometime in May, I came home one day and there were three huge stalks protruding from the ground. The stalks had tulip buds on them. I was amazed and delighted! I could not believe that my bulb planting was successful. I truly did not know if I planted the bulbs right, as there are no instructions which side to plant down. I must have had a moment of divine guidance and put them in the ground the right way. Last time I tried to plant bulbs, I got leaves, but no flowers. hmmmmm….. My mom said that it may have been the way I put the bulb in the ground. How was I supposed to know?

As the month of May came to,end I would admire my newly sprouting tulips. They had not yet opened, but were getting there. I just knew they would be sensational. And they were– for about one day. And then came the animals, the weed whacker and the feet.

I don’t know exactly when it all happened, but I remember the day when the tulips opened and they were gorgeous. I was so proud. I wanted to show my mother. 3 tulips, standing tall, like soldiers at the end of my drive– planted perfectly by the mailbox, giving my yard a twinkle of deep purple in the spring. And then I came home, and there were 2. Two beautiful tulips and one stalk with the flower taken at the top. My heart sank……. I should have known then to put in a border and protect the two, but no………I had to learn the hard way.

Within the next 24 hours, the next tulip went down. I’m still blaming the lawn guy– it had to be because on that day, I heard the lawn service guy going to town with the weed whacker. I really do like my lawn guys- they are very good and very reasonable. So I have to blame myself for not protecting my tulip, which was entangled with some weeds–Oops……. and then there was one. One lone tulip……..

And there it is. Picture perfect, to the right of my mailbox, by the cement marker. Did I learn my lesson yet? No….because I have not had the guts to plant anymore. I do not want to be held responsible for any more losses. However, I did find these cute Round Folding Fence Borders from Garden Zone. Ideal for protecting all plants, trees, shrubs, and anything else you don’t want disturbed, these Folding Fence Borders are a perfect compliment to any garden.

The Round Folding Fence Border by Garden Zone is available in a variety of sizes for all gardening needs. A 10 ft. x 10″ by Garden Zone is a great border for sidewalks, driveways, gardens and helps to protect shrubs, flowers and plants. Stakes into the ground for easy set-up. Folds flat for storage. Available in green or white.

Garden Zone also features a 18 in. x 8 ft. round folding fence for protecting shrubs, flowers and plants and a 24 in. x 10 ft fence. Or, if needed for a larger space, the Garden Zone has a Classic Magnolia Garden Border that is great for protecting shrubs, flowers and plants. The Magnolia can make accent fence or border and links together easily for easy set-up. This fence is heavy duty and coated for durability.

All Garden Zone folding fence borders can be found by visiting http://www.backyardstyle.com/. I’m happy to report that the last tulip standing did last for at least two weeks. I checked it almost every day to make sure nothing could get it. I never did enclose that one tulip-and it made it until the last petal dropped. By then, it was too late to show my mom. There’s always next year…..

Rapid Red Garden Mulch – Grow a more Flavorful Harvest

admin — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:00:00 +0000

The USDA and Clemson University can not be wrong!

Getting the most out of your crops whether you are a vegetable-growing hobbyist or a large conglomerate company outputting huge volume is more important than ever in this day and age.

The Rapid Red Mulch is effective is proven to grow more abundant and flavorful crops. In addition the Rapid Red Garden Mulch Film conserves water by slowing evaporation from the soil surface, AND it helps control weeds. Reducing weeds will therefore reduce herbicide use.

One could say that Rapid Red is Green

Here how to work with Rapid Red:

Unroll Rapid Red onto prepared soil. Place drip or other irrigation hose into the prepared soil at this time.
Hold the beginning and sides in place with soil, stones or garden staples.
Unroll in 5 foot increments, maintaining a taut, smooth surface. Continue to cover the edges as in step 2.
Cut a 3″ diameter hole in the center of the film for placement of seeds or seedlings.
Space plants so at least some reflected light reaches every side of the maturing plant.
Periodically wash the film’s surface with a garden hose to maintain the reflective capability.
Avoid spraying chemicals directly on the film, as this may change the color.
Once your crop is planted, water as needed;

Rapid Red aids in moisture retention so be careful to avoid over watering.

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