Prepping Your Garden for Heavy Rain

Garden Guy Dave Owens explains what you need to do to prepare your garden. Extending the growing season With seasons changing and temperatures getting cooler, many people are always trying new methods to help protect their gardens and crops so they last through the winter and provide a strong harvest in the spring. Using these tools and or techniques will help you moderate the temperatures around your garden and promote … Read More →

Getting rid of pests that plague your garden

If you have pests in your garden — and who doesn’t — this is a must-watch video. Garden Guy Dave Owens shares several natural ways of getting rid of those pests — without damaging your plants or endangering your family and pets. Organic Insect Control The Garden Guy shares how to control bees, crickets, grasshoppers, mosquitoes, caterpillars organically. Using Beneficial Insects for Insect Control

Getting rid of weeds

How to get rid of weeds in your garden organically. Getting rid of Bermudagrass and Tips on preventing weeds. The Garden Guy shows some safe products to use for weed control.

Tips for cold weather gardening

With the cool weather this season approaching Dave the Garden Guy has some tips to follow to transition which will cover water, white washing your trees, no trimming of plants, and mulching which is key. Sunburn damage on plants occurs more in the winter than during the summer. To avoid sunburn damage, paint exposed parts of thin-skin tree trunks with a white latex paint. This is especially important for trees … Read More →

How to prune trees

Garden Guy Dave Owens runs down everything you need to know about pruning trees and keeping them healthy.

The Best Time to Plant Fall Flowers

With the summer behind us it is time to look at different types of flowers to plant around your house. Cool weather flowers are a variety of flowers that will bring lots of color to your home and some can last all the way up to spring time. They are very easy to maintain and hardly require any additional care except for potential frost damage so as the temperatures start … Read More →

Mosquito control

Because mosquitoes are attracted to water, make sure all the water you have around your yard is changed often – like birdbaths, kiddie pools, and your pet’s water bowl. Even plants in pots can attract mosquitoes, so make sure you have good drainage. Get rid of anything in your yard that has the potential to collect water. There are organic ways to control mosquitoes – here are a few that … Read More →

Planting leafy veggies for fall harvest

As we start to go into fall soon we want to start considering what types of leafy veggies we want to plant so we can harvest them before the first frost season. As previously mentioned in the last segment we talked about preparing your soils in your garden and that is important to having a successful garden. As the temperatures start to cool down, it is time to start considering … Read More →


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