It seems that almost everyone has, at one time, had a fantasy about starting their own business, most of which involve using the internet and a website. In fact, due to the ever increasing ease of use, internet businesses are growing at a phenomenal rate. Unfortunately, 99% of web sites never make more than a [...]
A butterfly garden is a flower garden specifically planted to attract butterflies. Whether you take on this project alone or with your children, you will watch in wonder as butterflies come flocking to the garden you planted.
Gather Materials
Before you start planting, be sure you have all the materials you will need. Your garden [...]
If your perfect garden comes complete with flittering butterflies, you must attract them using the proper collection of plants. Fortunately, these plants are easy enough to find in nurseries and do not require a great deal of work outside of your normal gardening routines. All butterfly attracting plants have a similar element, however [...]
Daffodils, one of the top ten bulbs to plant for spring, are simple to plant and even easier to grow. Daffodils are planted in the fall, but their cheerful heavy blooms are most often recognized as forerunners of the spring. Here’s how to plant your own daffodils.
Select Daffodil Bulbs
When selecting the actual bulbs to plant, [...]
Planting annuals in season can bring color and vibrancy to your garden and make your landscaping the envy of the neighborhood. With just a little work, and after learning how to grow annuals, you can have a beautiful assortment of colorful flowers blooming in your own yard.
Seeds or Seedlings
First, you need to decide if [...]
When you spot unwanted plants appearing in your flowerbeds, you must take action to bring order back to your garden and keep your desired plants healthy. Weeding a garden is an ongoing process, but with careful treatment, the number of weeds you battle can be diminished over time.
Don Your Gloves
Before you weed a flowerbed, [...]
Espalier is a gardening technique that trains trees to grow along walls to save space in tight gardens and to create an unusual effect in your backyard. Espalier dates back to castle courtyards and monasteries, but you can use the technique in your own garden today for the same space saving and beautification purposes.
Prepare a [...]
If you’ve recently moved into a new home or have decided to build up your backyard, the fasted way to get grass into the yard is to sod your lawn. Sodding is simply taking large rectangles of cut grass complete with about an inch of dirt, and placing them onto the ground. Sodding requires a [...]
Fresh herbs in the kitchen can add a great deal of flavor to food as well as a pleasing aroma and appearance to the room itself. Growing herbs in a window not only saves on space in the kitchen, it also allows the small plants to thrive in the sunlight. A window herb garden is [...]
A backyard vegetable garden can satisfy your craving for fresh vegetables as well as sate your thirst for the feel of achievement as you grow your own food in the ways of our forefathers. Growing peppers, tomatoes and other vegetable in a backyard garden is simple enough if you are dedicated to establishing the garden [...]
Rebecca Garland is a freelance writer who takes on many projects including editing and creating content for URHowTo. As the Managing Content Partner of the site, she is systematically working through existing content and adding new content to ensure the how-to articles on the website are exactly what readers need to answer their most basic and obscure questions.
Rebecca lives in Texas with her husband and two young sons.
