Hackert Tree Farm

13 Trees You Should Never Plant In Your Yard

13 Trees You Should Never Plant In Your Yard For most people, the end of summer and approach of autumn means cooler temperatures, harvest time for crops, a

11 Trees You Should Never Plant in Your Yard: 1. Silver maple (Acer saccharinum)

Don’t plant bad trees that will cost you time and money later. These tips will help you make the right tree choices for your yard.

Tree Guide: a great guide to help you decide what to plant

Tree Guide: a great guide to help you decide what to plant

10 Trees That Spell Trouble for Your Yard

Mature trees add a lot of value to your property, boosting both your home's price and your quality of life... but only if they are the right trees. When you make an investment in a tree, don’t inadvertently plant something that will become a maintenance headache or the eventual cause of a dispute with your neighbors. To play it safe, keep these 10 trees out of your landscaping plan.

Garden Plants That Repel Termites?

» Are There Any Garden Plants That Repel Termites? |

How to fertilize and water garden plants

Pollinator Garden Plants and Practices

A pollinator garden can be maximized with attention to colors and patterns and specific shapes and sizes, all orchestrated to play host to a bouquet of chemical cues, impeccably timed to provide the nectar, shelter, and other resources pollinators need as they grow, pupate, and nest throughout the season.

Honeysuckle: 6 Uses & Benefits of This Common Garden Plant

Honeysuckles (Lonicera) are common garden plants with fragrant flowers. Learn more about potential health benefits of using honeysuckle — and warnings too.

How To Move Like A Gardener: Planting and Preparing Medicines From Plants

Written by Avena Botanicals' herbalist and founder, Deb Soule, How To Move Like A Gardener: Planting and Preparing Medicines From Plants provides 256 informat

How to Create a Garden Planting Calendar

Avoid the temptation of planting too early by making a calendar with planting times for various crops. Follow these steps.

Start Perennials Garden Plants in a Milk Jug from Seeds

This step by step simple tutorial of how to start perennials garden plants in a milk jug from seeds is a great way to save money and add beautiful splashes of color to your homestead. Re using a empty milk jug to create a mini greenhouse draws on the heat from the sun, the lack of wind, water from rain and the

Beginner's pluck: Easy garden plants

Just embarking on gardening as a hobby? It helps to start with bullet-proof plants that will reward your maiden efforts.

The Hoosier Gardener: Plant regrets? Gardeners have a few

Roam through some Indianapolis landscapes with me to see what plants local gardeners wish they had not planted. We can learn from their mistakes.

19 Cute and No-money Ideas to Label the Garden Plants

Spring is that perfect season lets you pay more attention on the garden. Flowers, tress, plants and vegetables…they will give you a lot of joyful time when you are taking care of them. Besides of plants, the garden also require many other unique and creative decorations. A garden path, small fountain or stone bench, they […]

How to diagnose garden plant, tree and houseplant problems

Master gardener Leimone Waite answers readers’ questions about plants, garden tools and their use, and gardening techniques.

When unexpected garden plants offer a sweet surprise

From time to time, new plants appear in our gardens, unbidden, as if magicked there by the universe

Planning a butterfly garden? Plant some milkweed

Not Growing a Fall Garden? Plant Cover Crops!

Cover crops, green manure, whatever you call it, fall is such a choice time to plant them. Cover crops add nutrients, tilth, organic matter, suppress weeds, improve soil, prevent erosion, break up…

Gardeners Corner: Planning a new perennial garden? Plant for the whole garden ecosystem

Planning a new perennial garden? Plant for the whole garden ecosystem

Consider You Have A Black Thumb? Try These Easy Garden Plants

A Single of the most sensible ways to improve your diet and make it healthier is to start and maintain an organic garden. It does require some effort, even so, though. You almost certainly have num…