This article discusses planting a home garden guide - gardening tips and advice. Here is a list of gardening tips for your home garden:
• Cut mowing time. A 36-inch mower does the job in half the time it takes an 18-inch one. See home garden for more information.
• Fertilizer from your fireplace: Wood ashes make an excellent soil conditioner and natural fertilizer for delphiniums, lilacs, peonies, and roses.
• A hemlock hedge is unrivaled as a natural, graceful means of protecting your privacy. Advantages: The hedge is disease-free, requires no fertilizer, and holds up well through snow, extreme temperatures, or drought. To start a hedge: Plant four-year-old seedlings about two feet apart. Once the desired height and fullness are reached, cut back annually on the year's growth. Best: A hedge about six feet high.
• Miniature roses flourish indoors and bloom every six to eight weeks throughout fall and winter. Potted rosebushes grow to 12 inches high with one-inch blossoms. They need at least four hours of sunlight a day or 12 hours of fluorescent light. Bushes should be moved outside and planted (in their pots) for at least two months every spring, summer, or early fall.
• Repotting a houseplant. Moisten the soil well. Wait an hour. Then up-end the pot and rap it on something hard. The dirt ball should drop out, intact. Before transplanting it in a bigger pot, cover the drainage hole with plastic mosquito netting. Reason: It stops soil run-off, but doesn't take up space as pebbles do.
• Geraniums in winter. Keep the pot on a sunny windowsill and the flowers will continue blooming throughout the winter. Southern exposure is best, with at least three hours of direct sun daily. Care: Between watering, the soil should be permitted to dry out. The plant should also be misted every few days. A standard houseplant fertilizer should be added to the soil about once a month. To encourage growth, snip straggly stems and blossoms that fade. For consistent foliage, rotate the pot.
• Free citrus plants. Press plump, moist seeds from any citrus fruit into a rich potting mixture, and place on a windowsill which is warm and gets bright light. Keep soil damp. After two months: Transplant seedlings. Lift gently with two spoons. Place each in a two-inch pot in fast-draining soil mix. When the root ball fills the pot, transfer to a four-inch pot. Move again when necessary to successively larger pots. Keep mature plants in indirect light. Feed annually with a half-strength fertilizer. Citrus plants grown inside have glossy dark leaves, but no flowers or fruit.
• Basic bird feeding rules: (1) Feed birds in the fall only if you intend to continue during the winter. Reason: If they depend on a known supply of food, they won't gather their own. (2) When on winter vacation, leave an adequate supply or use a regulated feeder device. (3) To prevent cats, squirrels, and other animals from endangering the birds, place the feeder at least 5 feet above the ground and 15 feet from trees.
• To kill weeds and grass growing in driveway and sidewalk cracks: Pour household bleach in the cracks. The vegetation dies and is easily pulled out. The bleach keeps it from growing back. Also effective: Saturated salt, or rock salt dissolved in water.

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Here is a list of gardening catalogs:
Bountiful Ridge Nurseries, 102 Nursery Lane, Princess Anne, MD 21853. Ask for the Herbs Seeds man catalog.
Brick's, 6523 N. Galena Rd., Peoria, IL 61614. Containing color photos of tulips and bulbs, shipped directly from Holland.
Brittingham Plant Farms, Salisbury, MD 21801. Berry plants and a planting guide.
Burgess, Box 3000, Galesburg, NI 49053.
Complete outdoor gardening catalog.
Burpee's Seed, 4721 Burpee Building, War minister, PA 18974. Over 1,8000 varieties of vegetables, flowers, fruits, shrubs, and trees.
Conner Co., 105 N. Second St., August, AR 72006, Strawberry plants.
Dean Foster, Hartford, MI 49057.220 varieties of strawberries, blueberries, and grapes.
Earl May Seed & Nursery Co., Shenandoah, lA 51603. Ornamental plants, vegetable seeds.
George W. Park Seed Co., 372 Cokesbury Rd., Greenwood, SC 29647. Flowers and vegetables.
Harris Seeds, 51 Moretib Farms, Rochester, NY 14624. Seeds of all kinds.
Jackson & Perkins Co., 1 Rose Lane, Medford, OR 97501. One of the very best gardening catalogs.
].W. Jung Seed, Randolph, WI 53956. Some 1,200 varieties of flowers, vegetables, fruits.
Kelly Bros., 802 Maple St., Dansville, NY 14437. Trees, plants, fruits, etc..
Mellinger's, 2310 West South Range Rd., North Lima, OH 44452. Seeds, plants, other garden items.
Musser Forets, Indiana, PA 15701. Ever¬green, hardwood seedlings, etc.., all geared for the home gardener and field planting.
Olds Seed Co., Box 7790, Madison, WI 53707. Flowers and vegetable seeds.
Putney Nursery, Putney, VT 05346. Ferns, herbs, perennials, orchids, etc..
Spring Hill Nurseries, Tipp City, OH 45366.
Perennials, including an indoor plant section.
Stark Bros., Louisiana, MO 63353. Vegetable seeds, dwarf, and full-sized trees.
Stokes Seeds, 1171 Stokes Building, Buffalo, NY 14240. Ninety-five varieties of tomatoes.
Thompson & Morgan, Box 100, Farmingdale, NJ 07727. Some 4,000 varieties of garden seeds.
W.]. Unwin Ltd., Farmingdale, NJ 07727.
Some 1,000 varieties of flower, vegetable, and plant seeds.
Gilbert H. Wild & Son, 181 Joplin St., Sarcoxie, MO 64862. Peonies, irises, day lilies.
Lilypons Water Gardens, 102 Hougar Rd., Lilypons, MD 21717. Lotus plants, water lilies, water gardens, etc.
Naturalists, Box 425, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598. Herbs plus medicinal plants.
Rex Bulb farms, Port Townsend, WA 93868.
Hundreds of lilies.
Van Ness Water Gardens, 2560 N. Euclid, Upland, CA 91786. Water liles and other aquatics.
Wayside Gardens, 90 Garden Lane, Hodges, SC 29695. Trees, shrubs, roses, etc..
White Flower Farms, Litchfield, CT 06759. One of the most versatile and beautiful catalogs.