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Gardening, Flowers and House Plant Care
The Garden Helper's Guides to Growing
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Wow! Is Spring is really here?
The weather this spring continues to be a bit bizarre and very unpredictable.
Stay aware of your local weather forecasts, trends and warnings.
The USDA hardiness zone maps are based on past years average temperatures,
and can't predict a freak frost or snowstorm, or a prolonged spring drought.
If a frost or freezing weather is in your forecast, protect your tender plants
with a mulch, newspapers, light cloth or some type of overnight protection
or a frost cap made with a roll of poly film tented over the plants.
Be sure to remove the plastic tent as soon as the danger of frost is over
or your plants will bake in the sun.
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If your weather is sunny and dry, don't neglect your watering!
Most flowers and shrubs need about an inch of water each week to perform well,
and especially newly planted seedlings will perish if their roots are allowed to dry out.
Bugs and Slugs in the Garden
In some areas, warm winter weather has produced an exceptionally good crop of mosquitoes in many gardens.
In addition to the usual precaution of eliminating sources of standing water or using chemical methods,
there are many types of garden plants that repel mosquitoes.
Here in the Pacific Northwet, the worst garden pests right now are the slugs and snails...
and they are busily propagating themselves!
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A single lawn prawn can successfully remove an entire row of seedlings from your garden in hours.
He can turn a perfect plant into swiss cheese over night and return to the safety of his hideaway,
leaving you to wonder what the heck happened......
Here is more information than you ever wanted to know about
dealing with the slugs and snails that are eating your garden.
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Gardening Tasks and Projects
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The Gardening Calendars provide you with a list of all the important tasks, maintenance and projects that should be done in your garden during each given month. The timing of tasks in these monthly garden calendars were written for gardeners in USDA Zones 7 and 8.
Please don't let that stop you from reading if you happen to grow your garden in a colder or hotter region.
Gardening tasks are the same, no matter where you live.
They are just done in a different month!
Use a calendar that is a month or two sooner or later.
Even if you do your gardening is in cooler or warmer regions,
browse the months before and after the current one for reminders of anything you forgot to do, and projects that you have to look forward to.
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This should allow you to plan your seasonal gardening activities well in advance,
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The Gardens of Cedar Hill
Most of the photos you'll find here at The Garden Helper are of
plants and flowers growing here at the Gardens of Cedar Hill. Click on them to enlarge.
I hope that you enjoy all of your visit to The Garden Helper! Please come back soon...
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The Butterfly Garden at Cedar Hill
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B.T.W... If you ever happen to wander off the garden path and get a little lost while you're here,
just give any Garden Gnome a click and he'll be happy to bring you right back here.
Have a great gardening day!
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