Healthy Soil, Healthy Plants

HEALTHY SOIL, HEALTHY PLANTS The key to successful gardening is “healthy soil.” This basic principle of organic gardening applies to all plants. Quite simply, when you feed the soil the proper nutrients, you let the soil feed the plants. So how do you “feed” the soil?...

Pink Day!!!

PINK DAY IS COMING!!!         Pink Day – Join us in the fight against breast cancer! Wear your pink and join us on June 10 and support Daniel’s Lawn and Garden Center’s efforts to help find a cure for breast cancer, a cancer that affects way too...

The Best Spring Gardening Flowers

Pair Bulbs & Hardy Annuals Gerry Whitmont/Photolibrary/Getty Images If your digging arm ran out of steam after planting the first bag of fifty tulips last fall, your spring flower show may not be as lush as you wanted it to be. Interplant your large bulbs, like...

Planting Trees and Shrubs

Before You Plant Always plant in a well drained soil. To test for soil drainage, dig a hole for your new plant and fill it with water. If the water doesn’t drain in 12 hours, the soil in that area will need to be amended dramatically. What Plant Form are You...

Planting Bulbs In The Winter

Plant bulbs are generally planted in the fall or spring, but in reality, they can be planted anytime so long as you can physically dig a hole. There are many types of bulb plants, including lilies, hyacinths, daffodils and tulips, just to name a few. While each plant...

Tips on using rock salt in the Winter

5 Steps To Improving Results When Melting Ice               Step 1: Get rid of the snow. Sounds easy enough. Clear any snow accumulations using a shovel, broom or snow blower. Lets face it, you cant just throw salt on 8″ of snow and...

How To Choose The Perfect Christmas Tree

  1. Why purchase a live Christmas tree? Live trees are the classic choice for the holidays. They offer a fresh and crisp profile and have that familiar scent and feel that remind people of the season. Live trees are all-natural. They are biodegradable....

Insect Control Begins Now

              It’s hard to think of insects in winter, but don’t forget the havoc these tiny creatures can bring to your garden – defoliating leaves, contaminating produce, even destroying complete plants. Before these pests begin to...