http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Doug+Green Gardening Doug Green Sat, 08 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=59986&ca=Gardening Here are several things you can do for your lawn right now that will make it a better lawn all summer. The first is to move the mowing deck to its highest setting. Mow the lawn tall. The longer you allow the grass leaves to grow, the more energy they can produce for their roots. The more energy in t... Gardening Doug Green Tue, 04 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=43849&ca=Gardening There are several kinds of pond liners available in pond stores. The first is EPDM rubber – and this is extremely durable, resists punctures and quite flexible. It is normally sold in 40 or 45 mil thickness. If you intend to put a rock bottom on top of your liner, this is the liner for you as it is... Gardening Doug Green Tue, 04 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=43779&ca=Gardening Here are several tips for creating a wonderful hanging basket or container this summer. The first is to use an artificial soil composed mostly of peat moss. Good soils such as Fafard or Pro-Mix use perlite, peat, and other ingredients to produce a soil that will not compact over the summer. Real gar... Gardening Doug Green Tue, 04 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=43780&ca=Gardening I currently rent my house and while I’m planning on buying later this year, I can’t refrain from obtaining new and interesting perennial plants right now. After all, it is spring out there and new plants have always been a major part of my spring activities. But, what can you do when you have a rent... Culture Doug Green Tue, 04 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=44347&ca=Culture Stories about flowers always interest me and those about daffodils are particularly interesting. Did you know that if you keep chickens, you may not want to bring daffodils into the house. An old saying in Herfordshire U.K. tells us that if you bring daffodils inside when the hens are sitting, no ch... Gardening Doug Green Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=42363&ca=Gardening One of the backbone plants in the perennial garden is the mid to late summer tall Phlox paniculata or tall garden Phlox. One of the newest varieties to get to your local garden centre is ‘Goldmine’. Aptly named because it will bring a rush of visitors to your garden with its bright magenta purple fl... Gardening Doug Green Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=39941&ca=Gardening Planting roses is fairly simple gardening stuff. The first thing is to never let the rose roots dry out. If you do, the rose will either perform poorly the first year or simply die. It does help to soak the roots in warm water for an hour before you plant if you’ve purchased the rose as a bareroot p... Gardening Doug Green Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=40364&ca=Gardening Algae control in ponds is fairly straightforward. If we ignore the initial spring burst of green water that tells us the pond is coming alive, we make the first good step. However if the green persists, it tells us there is an imbalance in the pond ecology. The solution to that is to fix the imbalan... Gardening Doug Green Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=38763&ca=Gardening Basil, (Ocimum basilicum), has been around for a long time and was originally named by Theophrastus (you know, the guy who co-founded and then replaced Aristotle as head of the Peripatetic school of philosophy back in 323 B.C.) There are indeed 35 species in the Basil family of plants, ranging from... Gardening Doug Green Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=38943&ca=Gardening One of the happiest moments in a houseplant’s life is when it gets to go back outside for the summer. The increased sunlight and fresh rain act as major growth stimulants for tired houseplants. And, it is very fashionable to incorporate houseplants and foliage plants into garden design. Having said...