Small Fruits Add Color to Home Landscape
The article explores integrating small fruits into landscapes when space is limited, highlighting strawberries as versatile ground cover and specimen plants, and detailing blueberries, grapes, brambles, currants, gooseberries, elderberries, serviceberries, and highbush cranberries as attractive options with specific growing notes and considerations for Illinois gardeners.
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Greenery Gives Man Oxygen Upon Which All Life Depends
A concise note emphasizes the essential role of greenery in producing breathable oxygen supporting life on Earth, highlighting forests, plants, and photosynthesis as key processes.
Beat lawn weeds with planning and proper care
The plan to beat lawn weeds focuses on deep watering, correct mowing height for Kentucky bluegrass and other varieties, and avoiding close mowing. Use postemergence herbicides like 2 4 D with caution, follow label directions, and apply preemergence crabgrass materials before germination.
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Wise fertilizer use boosts vegetable garden yield
The article advises soil testing to tailor nitrogen phosphorus and potassium needs for vegetable gardens. Gardeners should mix balanced fertilizer 10-10-10 at 15 pounds per 1000 square feet or substitutes like 12-12-12 or 15-15-15 if needed. Apply more fertilizer if plant vigor wanes in June. Slightly acidic soil suits most vegetables.
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