How to Drill Holes in Clay Soil Without Breaking Your Drill
Quick answer: Clay soil is extremely dense, so the easiest way to drill holes in it is by using a heavy-duty drill auger and a high-torque drill. Wetting the soil...
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How to Drill Holes in Clay Soil Without Breaking Your Drill
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Planting Mums with an Auger
Chrysanthemums, also known as mums, are the final burst of color in many gardens before winter blankets us with cold and snow. These vibrant flowers light up the fall landscape,...
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How to Plant Dahlia Bulbs with Power Planter Augers
With more than 42 species and thousands of cultivars, dahlias have the show stopping blooms and vibrant colors that gardeners live for. Planting dahlia bulbs, or tubers, can seem like...
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How to Plant Elephant Ear Bulbs
Elephant ear plants, with their broad, dramatic leaves, are a fantastic option for gardeners looking to add a lush, tropical touch to their outdoor space. These plants, known scientifically as...
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7 Great Bulb-Planting Tips For a Colorful Spring and Summer
Who doesn't enjoy seeing rows of buttery yellow daffodils, vividly red tulips, deep purple crocuses and delightfully pink gladioli brightening their gardens and yards in the spring and summer? And...
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How to Plant Daffodil Bulbs: A Step-By-Step Guide with a Twist
Few things mark the coming of Spring like the cheerful yellow blooms of daffodils. As a symbol of rebirth and new beginnings in many cultures, daffodils (Narcissus) originated in the...
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Excavator packed Georgia red clay is no match for Power Planters
Red clay soil—a.k.a. Georgia red clay—gets a bad rap for being hard to work with. While this type of soil has a tendency of getting compacted and forming rocks, it's...
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Can Gardening Reduce Stress?
Why is gardening good for you? Because it helps you eat better and lowers your cortisol levels.
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My Density Matters: Why and How to Learn Your Breast Density
Are your breasts dense? Schedule a mammogram today to increase your chances of early breast cancer detection.
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Hottest Gardening Trends of 2022: Stylistic & Sustainable
The hottest garden trends of 2022 keep outdoor spaces functionally in vogue. Click here to see Power Planter’s top picks for your garden.
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Sustainable Gardening Tips & Ideas
Sustainable gardening is growing in popularity — and for good reason. When done well, it can result in healthier gardens and bigger harvests. Because sustainability is all about making green...
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The Best Time To Start A Garden
Planting a garden represents one of life’s greatest pleasures. While many factors impact a garden’s success, timing is essential. Just as you won’t reap tomatoes in the dead of winter,...
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How To Maintain A Garden
Blooming flowers and ripening vegetables are a beautiful and fulfilling sight for any gardener. Producing a healthy garden involves laying the proper groundwork and administering careful upkeep. Here are some...
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7 Gardening Myths And Misconceptions
Gardening is perhaps one of the most relaxing activities anyone can experience. To make it even more enjoyable, gardeners can bring the flowers, fruits and vegetables they grow into their...
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The Different Types Of Potting Soil
Not every gardener realizes, but there are lots of different types of potting soil out there. Knowing how to distinguish between them and what to look for in a good potting soil...
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Improving Compacted Soil
Why is compaction bad for soil? Compacted soil is packed so densely together that water struggles to seep through the particles. As a result, plants can struggle to grow and...
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How To Prevent Weeds In Flower Beds
Gardening is an activity that can reduce stress and improve the appearance of your yard. There are so many flowers to choose from, and the combinations of plant life can...
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When To Start Spring Garden Cleaning
As perennials, trees and shrubs emerge from winter dormancy and put on new growth, you may be wondering when to start spring cleaning your garden. Find out the best time and best...
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Common Gardening Mistakes
As weather warms, more people are spending time in their gardens. Spring is ideal to complete many critical garden tasks. Unfortunately, it's also a time when gardeners — novice and...
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How To Start A Flower Garden
Growing a flower garden offers rich rewards: beauty, aroma and the regular pleasure of getting your hands in the dirt and tending living things. That’s why it’s so worthwhile to...
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How To Prepare Soil For A Garden
Plants receive the bulk of their nourishment from soil. Simply put, the healthier the dirt, the more support it provides. To give seeds the best environment to grow, your soil...
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Winterizing Garden Beds
The first and most obvious reason is that gardens need to be protected from the cold weather. Covering semi-tender plants such as strawberries with a light layer of mulch can...
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What Is Soil Aeration?
If your lawn is patchy or dead, it could need soil aeration — a process that breaks up tough clumps of soil.
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Fall Gardening Ideas
While the weather is getting colder, there is still plenty of time to implement fall flower garden ideas and get your green space ready to thrive in the spring. Read on to...
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The Best Plants For Shady Gardens
Shady lawns can be difficult to landscape without the right plants. Homeowners and gardeners who have shady properties must be careful to pick plants that can grow under these challenging...
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6 Ways Earth Augers Improve Gardening Productivity
A soil auger is a handy tool to have for lots of reasons. You’ll find that there are several ways that these tools let you get more done in the...
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Essential Spring Gardening Tips
If you’re new to gardening, then you’re probably wondering where to get started. Spring can often be a hectic time of year — so many tasks to do and only...
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Transferring Starter Plants Outdoors
There are certain home gardening tips that all gardeners need to know. Chief among them are tips for transferring starter plants outdoors, whether those plants are from the greenhouse or plants that...
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Power Planter Gives Back
In honor of Giving Tuesday this year, Greg Niewold and the rest of the Power Planter team want to take a moment to share what this family-run business does for...
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New Product Photos Improve Ecommerce Shopping Experience for Augers
Power Planter adds new product photos to website and revamps their shopping experience Power Planter has added an impressive lineup of new product photos to their website, making the ecommerce...
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Free Shipping on Orders over $30!
What's better than Free Shipping? There’s not much that beats it when you’re shopping online, that’s for sure. We couldn’t agree more.That’s why we updated our shipping policy from Free...
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Home, Garden and Homestead Featured Our Planting Augers
From Home, Garden and Homestead:"There’s no reason to hand-dig holes for new plants this spring, because planting augers from Power Planter make digging holes fast and easy. These sturdy metal...
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How to Reduce Plant Loss in Your Garden
Many gardeners and landscapers know that during the planting process, improper depth and placement of your plants can leave them stressed and in danger of not making it through the...
