The Garden Helper

Gardening tasks by the month

• Calendar of monthly gardening tasks and chores The 'ToDo' lists
• Need a "little" gardening help??

Gardening in general

• Perennial Plants for alkaline soil
• Controlling weeds in your lawn and garden
• Weeds part 2... Annual weeds
• Weeds part 3... Perennial weeds
• Adding Water Features to Your Garden By special guest writer Stacy Traffanstedt
• Birds.... Garden plants to attract and feed them
• Birds.... Seeds and treats to feed them
• Protecting your plants from FROST
• Dormant spraying
• A preview of my 'splash garden'
• A preview of my butterfly and hummingbird garden
• Selecting and caring for your Christmas tree
• Planting spring flowering bulbs
• A glossary of gardening terms
• Gardening tools... Choosing, using, and caring for them them
• Insects, bugs and pests that invade your houseplants and flowers
• Beneficial insects in the garden
• Guide to selecting a healthy plant
• Care Of Flowering Easter Plants
• Growing flowers, where once there were none
• Raised planting beds
• Building a raised planting bed
• Fertilizer components and uses
• Soil acidity... How to adjust the soil pH in your garden
• Planting annuals and perennials into your garden
• Rock Garden Plants
• Growing a vegetable garden
• Moving plants out of season
• Planting a new lawn
• Gardening in the shade
• Gardening in containers
• Ornamental Grasses in the Garden
• Varieties of Ornamental Grasses
• Dividing Ornamental Grasses
• Ground covers
• Ground covers for sunny exposures
• Ground covers for shady situations
• Create a critter friendly garden
• Butterflies like these flowers
• Hummingbird gardens
• Starting your plants from seeds
• Softwood cuttings... How to propagate new plants

• Answers for a gardener with a brown thumb
• Cats and dogs and gardening
• Cats... being bad cats
• Clay flower pots?
• Composting your garden waste
• Drainage problems and shade plants
• Help with school projects and science fairs
• Insects, bugs and pests that invade your house plants and flowers
• Natural cat repellants??
• Repotting container grown plants
• Shady foundation plantings
• The growth and health effects of talking to your plants
• Toxic house plants
• Toxic garden plants
• Utilizing botanical names for plants
• Wildflower seeds... Collecting, planting and growing them
• Wrought iron in the garden

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