What is "yardener's Plant Helper"?
                     Yardener’s Plant Helper
Welcome to
YARDENER’S PLANT 
HELPER
What is Yardener’s 
Plant Helper!
This yard care database is assembled for 
"Yardeners" - folks who own a house with a 
lawn, some trees and shrubs, and maybe 
some flowers. They want to take care of the 
plants in their yard, but gardening is not a 
hobby, and probably never will be.
That is the call of the oppressed yardener 
who has little time to do all the things in his 
or her life that need to be done.
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To make things simpler to comprehend and learn, 
the ultimate resource for gardeners seeking 
efficient and effective professional assistance to 
care for their plants and yard has been organized 
into the areas listed.
• Caring For The Soil In The Landscape
• Lawn Care For Yardeners
• Landscape Plant Files
• Yard Care Techniques for Yardeners and 
Gardeners
• Essential Steps For Success
• Food Gardening
• Houseplants
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There is more to this, and 
Caring For The Soil we have included all the 
In The Landscape information you require in 
the sections below.
The majority of the soil in American 
home landscapes is poor. Over 70% of • Soil Defined
American homes, according to our • Building & Keeping Good 
estimation, have lawns, trees, and Soil
shrubs that are growing in poor soil. • Do You Have Good Soil or 
Lousy Soil?
Yardeners desire a beautiful landscape, • Solutions For Soil 
but we also want them to understand Problems
that poor soil also poses a financial 
challenge. A significant portion of the 
time and money required to maintain 
the landscape can be saved by having 
good, healthy soil. The health and look 
of trees and shrubs are simultaneously 
enhanced by having good soil, which 
raises the home's resale value. This 
document aims to persuade Yardeners 
to incorporate soil care into their 
long-term yard care plans a little more.
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Lawn Care For Yardeners
Almost everything Americans do to maintain their 
lawns harms their lawns in the long run. does that 
make sense at all? Almost everything you need to 
know to have a lovely low-maintenance lawn is 
covered in these files, and much of it will be 
different from what you are doing now. We 
separate the jobs into two categories: those that 
are common to most lawn programs and those 
that are intended to improve the appearance of a 
lawn.
• The four steps to the perfect lawn
• Basic lawn care techniques
• Fixing lawns
• Preventing lawn problems
• Solving lawn problems
• Fancy Nancy's lawn care tips
• Week to week lawn care tips
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Landscape Plant Files
You can learn how to take care of 
the most popular trees, shrubs, 
and flowers in the home 
landscape here. Every month, we 
add new plants. We have 
organized the extensive material 
in the Landscape plant files into 
the parts below to make things 
easier.
• Files About Flowers
• Files About Shrubs
• Files About Trees
• Vines and Ivy
• Groundcovers and Ferns
• Fancy Nancy's Picks - 
Landscape Plants
Yard Care Techniques for
Yardeners and Gardeners
This section discusses some of the general 
methods or strategies that some yardmen might 
choose to use. We believe that proper soil 
maintenance and mulching are essential for a 
healthy yard ecology.However, we have covered 
every aspect of yard care techniques and there are 
still more.
• Fertilizing The Landscape
• Watering The Landscape
• Mulching In The Yard
• Yard Waste Management
• Composting
• Growing Plants In Containers
• Winter Protection For Plants
• Jeff's Thoughts About Tools For Yard 
Care
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Essential Steps For Success
Ecology is the study of interactions between organisms and their surroundings. Important and dangerous 
ecological problems include global warming, air pollution, water pollution, and invasive foreign plant species. 
Although we as individuals might not be able to directly address these global challenges, we think that each 
of us can at least try to learn about the ecology of our own backyard, and if we spot an ecological issue, we 
might be able to take action. America's yards as a whole have a significant impact on the nation's overall 
ecological health.Everything you need to succeed is at your disposal.
• Attracting Birds To The Yard
• Soil Health In The Yard
• Attracting Beneficial Insects To The Yard
Yardeners are typically reluctant to try 
Food growing any vegetables, fruits, or berries 
Gardening because they believe it to be too 
challenging and time-consuming. While 
we don't recommend beginning with a 
sizable backyard orchard and a huge 
vegetable garden at once, we do suggest 
you try a few vegetables and perhaps a 
few culinary herbs. You'll find that 
growing some delectable vegetables is 
not difficult when you start out 
cautiously, and when you know what 
you're doing, it takes only a short 
amount of time.Everything you need, 
from a basic guide to creating sprouts, is 
available covered here.
• Basics of Vegetable Gardening
• Vegetable Files
• Culinary Herbs
• Build A Complete Vegetable 
Garden System
• Fruits & Berries
• Making Sprouts
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Houseplants
I believe gardeners typically don't have many 
indoor plants. Most indoor plants we've tried to 
grow have died on us, generally because we 
neglected to water them. Unbeknownst to us, we 
frequently placed the plant in an unsuitable 
location for light. The unknownHere too, we've 
got you covered.
• General Care of Houseplants
• Houseplant files
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