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Home gardens can be hard work but for many it is a great hobby that gives you many rewards. Gardening is the most popular hobby in this country. It helps you to relax and many say it is very therapeutic. Look at it this way, you are outside in the fresh air and you are working on a project that helps to relieve stress and worry. It is also a great way to work out without having to get in your car and go to the gym. Think of the hours of enjoyment you will get when your hard work turns into gorgeous, lush gardens. Along with the enormous enjoyment you will get from your garden, you will also reap the harvest of any fruit trees and enjoy that too. There are a few garden tips that you should follow that will reward you with a beautiful home garden for you and your friends to enjoy.

There are some home gardening tips to keep in mind when shopping for new trees or shrubs. Usually, when you purchase and plant trees and shrubs they are very small. The gardener comes home and plants under a window or near the house. These plants will start to grow and can cause some tricky problems. This is a mistake to avoid. As the plants grow, so do their root systems. If planted to close to the house they could do harm to your foundation, sewer or water lines. Not only can they cause damage to these things but then it will be necessary to pay to have the tree or shrub removed. When planting shrubs around your house they may grow tall enough to block out sunlight or be a detriment to your landscaping scheme. To avoid this trouble in your home garden, find out exactly how tall and wide the shrubs and trees will be at maturity, a very important tip. Remember, never plant a tree too close to your house. The roots could cause very costly damages and you would have to have the tree taken out.

To encourage new spring growth, prune your shrubs in the fall to allow air flow. Until the shrub or tree is established you must water them liberally. Proper watering of your trees or shrubs is essential if you want them to survive and in some cases to keep the guarantee valid. Lawn sprinkler irrigation is generally inadequate for watering these new plants. Trees and shrubs must have a deeper, soaking watering of the root ball. Moist but not “sloppy wet” is the rule. The recommended watering schedule when your trees and shrubs are first planted is as follows:

Days 1-30 – Everyday

Days 31 – 60 Every other day

Days 61 & following – At least twice per week

Plants that you have watered well survive far better during the cold months than plants starting winter without enough water. Depending on your zone, it is best to plant trees and shrubs in the fall, never in the summer. Take care of your home gardens and you will have years of enjoyment adding texture and beauty to your home and yard.

Happy Gardening!

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Mary Hanna is an aspiring herbalist who lives in Central Florida. This allows her to grow gardens inside and outside year round. She has published other articles on Cruising, Gardening and Cooking. Visit her websites at Gardening Landscaping Tips and Gardening Outside and Herb Gardening

Are you the inquisitive types that like to be constantly updated about the goings-on in the field of your interest? Would you be interested in knowing which plant has been crowned as the plant of the month? How about clicking a prize-winning photograph of the plant you think could beat all in a contest. You also might want to receive regular newsletters updating you about the developments in the domain of home gardening and offering you some useful tips as well. If all this grabbed your attention significantly, you will be delighted to join the National Home Gardening Club.

It has several benefits to offer to all its enrolled members. Members usually can join in as official product testers. It entails testing many gardening products from time to time. However, the bonus is that you get to keep the products you test! All you are required to do is to fill up and submit the tested product’s evaluation form in an honest manner.

Having membership of the National Home Gardening Club also qualifies you to participate in member forums as well. You get to flash your knowledge in the form of write-ups on the bulletin boards. There is a good possibility that many other member gardeners will leave their comments or remarks about your postings, thus leading to a healthy interaction. If you desire more real time and live interaction, you can head to the Clubs Chat room. There is also the provision for you and other members to exchange photographs with the help of a built in application called the National Home Gardening Clubs Member Photo Page.

The members get several opportunities to win exciting prizes as well. Contests like click to win can earn them handy prizes like the Empires Riding Mower Deck washer, natural compost tea by Merrill’s or the Earth Box’s ready to grow gear. Another interesting contest named Garden Giveaway distributes prizes like chipper shredders, cast aluminum settees or greenhouses from Poly-Tex. One can participate in the yearly photograph contest and a web quiz too.

When you enroll in for the free trial membership at the National Home Gardening Club, you’re gifted a free edition of the Gardening How-to magazine, an E-newsletter, a free public garden dictionary and a free of cost gardening shears too! If this doesn’t get you smiling, there’s more! You also are entitled to a chance to bag a gardening gear at zero-price and to register and test gardening equipments that will be yours to take home post-testing.

Another bonus is the complete access to the Clubs website where you can learn from the gardening tips shared by other members. Maybe you can pitch in with some of yours too. Who minds instant stardom! You also get an opportunity to post your reviews about some amazing videos and books on gardening.

Another exciting facility this club provides is a comprehensive library where you can find write-ups on all facets of home gardening. Be it specialty gardens, vegetables, weeds, plant diseases, pests, fruits, herbs or anything to do with home gardening, you will find information about it in National Home Gardening Clubs library. It’s so informative that you would want to visit it again and again. They update the library regularly to keep you posted on all the new age developments in Home Gardening fields.

It is not rare for the National Home Gardening Club member to get frequent informative mailers about all the upcoming gardening shows. You may get some free passes to special events too! In case you wish to dig quite deep into a certain topic, you will have privileged access to some universities as well to enhance your knowledge further. A true home gardening enthusiast couldn’t have asked for more!