Lawn & Garden Care : How to Start a New Lawn
Posted by admin on Dec 25, 2009
To start a new lawn, get rid of any weeds in the lawn by digging them up or solarizing the area, mix up some compost with the soil, lay down the sod or grass seeds, and water the area everyday. Spray a new sod yard with a mixture of seaweed and water to activate the roots with tips from a professional landscaper in this free video on lawns.
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Create your Own Landscape Design : Designing & Landscaping a Flower Bed Area
Posted by admin on Dec 14, 2009
Designing and landscaping a flower bed can add detail to your yard, get expert landscape design tips in this free video. Expert: Gale Gassiot Bio: Gale Gassiot makes her own organic compost or “gardener’s black gold.”
Lawn Care & Design : How to Design & Prepare a Flower Bed
Posted by admin on Dec 11, 2009
To design and prepare a flowerbed, pick plants based on the amount of sunlight; fill the bed with fertilized soil and arrange flowers from tallest to smallest. Learn the benefits of building an elevated flowerbed with this free video from a professional landscaper on lawn care tips. Expert: Bill Elzey Contact: www.showplacelawns.com Bio: Bill Elzey is the owner and manager of Showplace Lawns in Austin, Texas. Filmmaker: Todd Green
Lawn Care & Gardening Tips : How to Aerate & Over-Seed Your Lawn
Posted by admin on Nov 27, 2009
To aerate and over-seed your lawn, run the aerator over the lawn to open up the soil, fill a fertilizer spreader with grass seed, and run the spreader over the yard several times. Run the wheels of a fertilizer spreader over the lawn to bed down the seeds before watering, and consider advice from a professional landscaper in this free video on gardening and lawn care.
Lawn & Garden Care : How to Prune Rose Bushes
Posted by admin on Nov 25, 2009
Prune rose bushes by getting a good pair of pruning shears, starting the pruning in the middle of February and going around the whole plant to get rid of excess branches. Cut back rose bushes significantly every year with instructions from a professional landscaper in this free video on gardens.
Follow up after submitting your lawn care or landscaping bid – GopherHaul Podcast
Posted by admin on Nov 25, 2009
www.gopherforum.com Once you are contacted by a potential client and meet with them to bid on their property, you arent done yet. Remember to always follow up. This applies to both commercial and residential lawn care customers. Kim asked I was just wondering after someone calls you for a lawn care estimate and you go out meet with them, and then submit a bid, do most of them let you know if you didnt get the job or just kinda blow you off. Tom answered A few things will probably happen 1 …
To my flowers, I love you forever, whatever, no matter…
Posted by admin on Nov 13, 2009
No glory any more, but your poetry stays by my tea, in me
Tips on Landscape Plants
Posted by admin on Nov 4, 2009
5 Star Design talks about plants in your backyard design.
Gardening & Plant Care : How to Make Compost Tea
Posted by admin on Oct 24, 2009
To make compost tea, place store-bought compost or homemade compost in a barrel, add water to the barrel, and then remove the water after it has been sitting in the compost. Use compost tea on perennial plants and vegetables to provide helpful nutrients with advice from a sustainable gardener in this free video on gardening compost.
Landscape Painting “Tips and Tricks” by Tim Gagnon – Painting Grass with a Fan Brush
Posted by admin on Oct 5, 2009
This is the first “Tips and Tricks” video from GagnonStudio. The quality in this video isn’t as high as I had hoped, because it was made rather quickly, but I will work on that for next Saturdays “Tips and Tricks” video. Please subscribe, or Tune in each Saturday. This video explains how to paint grass with an old fan brush. You can use a new fan brush as well, but an old fan brush has a unique shape due to missing and broken bristles. The unique shape makes a nice pattern for blades of …