agriculture
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What Your Weeds Are Telling You About Your Soil
Pulling weeds growing in your garden, yard, flower beds, or between the cracks in your driveway is tedious work — especially when they seem to grow back overnight.
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How to Start Composting Leaves (and Why You Should)
Once all those pretty autumn leaves fall to your yard, they are often treated as a waste product — but these leaves are the beginning of nutrient-rich garden soil, and they make an excellent habitat for pollinators and beneficial insects. Composting your leaves instead of tossing them can save you money on removal and help…
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12 Ways to Transform Your Backyard Shed Into Something More Useful
No matter how modest, any backyard space attached to your home can prove useful — and one easy and popular way to level-up your backyard without too much work (or cost) is to install a backyard shed. If you’re lucky, there was already a shed in place when you bought your house, but you can…
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15 of the Easiest Perennials to Grow
Gardening can be demoralising if, after hours of sweaty work, your results are lacklustre and your plants decimated by bugs or eaten by deer. Worse is when the flowers you did manage to coax into bloom don’t bother showing up again the next year. That’s why perennials are so important for any flower garden —…