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by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: garden basics, using garden tools

A Basic Guide To Essential Garden Tools For Beginners

Tagged With: beginning gardening, expert gardening tips, gardening tools, spade, trowel

What, When, How To Use Garden Tools Just starting out as a new homeowner? Get the garden tools you need. Tips on which essentials a newbie gardener should buy. Hint: if it decorates a wall, you aren't using it. | What Essential Tools Do I Need … [Read more...] about A Basic Guide To Essential Garden Tools For Beginners

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: garden basics, Landscape Design Know-How

Landscaping 101, A Mini Course

Tagged With: front yard, garden plan, garden planning, landscape 101. home landscaping

Plan To Landscape Your Own Yard And Garden Here is a quick course in planning your landscape- what to think about and where to find your information. There is so much excellent tutorial information available that any homeowner can design and … [Read more...] about Landscaping 101, A Mini Course

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: garden basics, Pruning Your Plants, using garden tools

Late Winter Is Time To Prune

Tagged With: how to prune, pruners, pruning, secateurs

Best Time To Prune Visualizing how to cut tree branches If we get a break in the weather (which we will, eventually), it will be ideal time to get the pruning tools out and clean up winter damage, trim out fruit trees, and cut … [Read more...] about Late Winter Is Time To Prune

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: Featured, garden basics, gardening tips, using garden tools

The Down And Dirty Weeding Tool List

Tagged With: best tools, Featured, garden tools, lists

The Bare Essentials Some essentials when brand new I've done a lot of tweeting and writing about weeding this season. There are a couple of reasons for that including the unusually wonderful weather (from my perspective, anyway), … [Read more...] about The Down And Dirty Weeding Tool List

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: garden basics, garden chores, spring

Posted, A Short Garden Tip Video

Tagged With: garden video, gardening tips, New American, ornamental grasses

Mini-tutorial when you only have a minute On Care Of Ornamental Grass I wanted to add to the videos made for Ilona's Garden Youtube channel. I like short tips videos, so I made one while showing my son how to cut down the leftovers from last … [Read more...] about Posted, A Short Garden Tip Video

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: Featured, seed starting, spring

Seeds For Trial Garden

Tagged With: American Meadows, Featured, meadow, seeds, wildflowers

A few of the seeds that were sent to me This year I received seeds to trial in my gardens from American Meadows. They arrived this last week, and the weather is finally warming up so that I can get ready to plant them. Exciting, is it … [Read more...] about Seeds For Trial Garden

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: garden basics

Brush Up On The Basics

Tagged With: expert gardening tips, garden basics, gardening skills

Ready, Set, Go GardeningWe are beginning a new growing season, once the plant orders are in, the plans have been laid, and the plants begun indoors, we are well on our way to a busy Spring start. So, before things get too hectic, I thought it could … [Read more...] about Brush Up On The Basics

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: 2014, do as I say, seed starting

Still too early, so wait for it

Don't Start Seeds Too EarlyPhoto: MissyRedBoots, Judith BrougSome of you aren't going to heed this advice. I blame the fact that this winter has been so long (psychologically) and cold that with all the complaints about it, many gardeners want … [Read more...] about Still too early, so wait for it

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: seed starting, tomatoes

When Thoughts Turn To…Plants

It is January, and in Ohio we experienced our usual January thaw... so everything is quite soggy at this point. Most of the gardeners here realize that we have several more months until we can garden and at least one more month to expect winter … [Read more...] about When Thoughts Turn To…Plants

by Ilona Erwin Filed Under: seed starting

I Learned Something – You Can Too

Seed bombsI've been doing everything except gardening and blogging for the last few weeks. It is fall, and while I usually am out in the garden planting bulbs and all sorts of autumn tasks, this year I tidied the garden and then left for the South to … [Read more...] about I Learned Something – You Can Too

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