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Mike McGroarty’s “Secret” Bed Building and Potting Soil Recipe.

Updated : March 29, 2019

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Raised Beds and Potting Soil.  The Recipe is the Magic that makes for Beautiful Plants! A good potting soil recipe and a good bed building recipe are interchangeable.  A good potting soil recipe is an absolute must. You can’t fool around and get a potting soil recipe wrong.  I poor potting soil recipe will stall,… Click here to read more…

Important Spring Gardening Tips.

Updated : September 25, 2014

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It’s that time of the year when everybody want to get out into the yard and clean up after winter.  It’s also the time of the year that we visit our local garden stores. Walking through a garden store is a lot like walking down the midway at the county fair.  There are sights, sounds,… Click here to read more…

How to Get Rid of Wild Morning Glory.

Updated : September 25, 2014

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It doesn’t have to be just morning glory.  Any weed or vine type of plant (weed) that is growing in your landscaping or flower beds that is causing problems can be eliminated without a great deal of difficulty. Wild Morning Glory Elimination. First things first.  Let’s understand that all weeds are plants, living things.  In… Click here to read more…

How to Get Rid of and or Control Weeds.

Updated : November 4, 2014

172 Comments

Weeds out of control.

Weeds are by far one of the biggest challenges that gardeners face.  But it doesn’t have to be that way and I promise to show you how to get a handle on weeds and keep them under control forever with a few simple steps. What it takes to make a weed happy. Mike!  Are you… Click here to read more…

Weed Control Facts

Updated : June 11, 2019

275 Comments

I wrote an article about Weed Barrier Fabric and lots and lots of people said;  “Hey Mike, if weed control fabric isn’t good, how do we control weeds?  So here’s the low down on weeds and how they think. Think about weeds and what they need.  They need water, nutrition, and sunlight to thrive. Since… Click here to read more…

Weed Barrier Fabric or Weed Barrier Cloth? Does it work?

Updated : June 5, 2019

484 Comments

Old home make over.

In my opinion, and I have plenty of experience to back it up, weed barrier fabrics and weed barrier cloths do not work! How about black plastic?  Black plastic doesn’t work either. I’ve spent most of my life working in the landscaping industry.  I’ve landscaped well over 500 homes. Many of those were re-landscapes. In way too… Click here to read more…

'Rockin Raspberry' Bee Balm.

‘Rockin Raspberry’ Bee Balm.

Posted On June 26, 2022 By Mike

'Bubblegum Blast' Bee Balm.

‘Bubblegum Blast’ Bee Balm

Posted On June 26, 2022 By Mike

Blue Angel Hosta.

‘Blue Angel’ Hosta.

Posted On June 25, 2022 By Mike

Big Daddy Hosta.

‘Big Daddy’ Hosta

Posted On June 25, 2022 By Mike

'Humpback Whale' hosta.

‘Humpback Whale’ Hosta.

Posted On June 25, 2022 By Mike

Ice Plant, delosperma

Ice Plant, delosperma

Posted On June 9, 2022 By Mike

Electric Red Dianthus

‘Electric Red’ Dianthus

Posted On June 9, 2022 By Mike

Flower bulb care after they bloom.

The Right Way to Treat Your Flower Bulbs after they Bloom.

Posted On June 9, 2022 By Mike

Miniature donkey shenanigans.

Power Equipment, Pain in the Backside!

Posted On June 9, 2022 By Mike

Ice Plant, Delosperma

Photos, Landscaping Ideas from My Butt Ugly Landscape. Worst Landscape Design Ever!

Posted On June 8, 2022 By Mike

Complete Guides

Growing, Rooting and Propagating Dappled Willow in Tree Form from Cuttings.

Growing Seeds, Winter Sowing, in Milk Jugs and Kitty Litter Jugs.

The Correct Way to Pot Rooted Cuttings, Nursery Stock Liners and other Plants.

Training Arborvitae and other Conical Evergreens to Grow with a Single Leader.

How to Propagate, Root Cuttings, of Dwarf Alberta Spruce.

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Flower bulb care after they bloom.

The Right Way to Treat Your Flower Bulbs after they Bloom.

Me and the donkeys made a movie for you about caring for your flower bulbs after they bloom. It seems to be that the standard practice is to roll the tops into a ball, put a rubber band around them and wait for them to turn brown before you cut them … Read Full Article

Miniature donkey shenanigans.

Power Equipment, Pain in the Backside!

Listen up, me and the donkeys, Finnegan and Fergus, made a video for you that just might save you a giant headache when it comes to your power equipment. I made this giant mistake and hopefully this will make sure that it does not happen to you. Not … Read Full Article

Ice Plant, Delosperma

Photos, Landscaping Ideas from My Butt Ugly Landscape. Worst Landscape Design Ever!

A couple of years ago I posted a video and some photos of the landscaping around our house and one guy said something like, "It's a good thing you know how to grow plants because your landscape design skills are terrible. So when I did an update I titled the … Read Full Article

Busting Gardening Myths!

One of Our Members, http://backyardgrowers.com/join, shared this article with the other members. It's a great article about long held gardening beliefs that just flat out are not true. I'd love to display the article here but I just don't have permission to … Read Full Article

How to Move Heavy things the Easy Way.

It's that time of year when I have to put balls on the Japanese maples that we dug earlier this spring. On this page, https://mikesbackyardnursery.com/2021/04/how-to-put-a-ball-and-burlap-on-a-bare-root-tree-that-has-been-previously-dug/, I show you how I put … Read Full Article

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