Hello Everyone, If you have not noticed recently Summer has slowly made it's way to all of our backyard gardens and landscapes. I've been busy planting my tomato garden. Also on my planting list are  delicata squash and lemon cucumber. The delicata squash is yellow with pretty green stripes running vertically through the vegetable. The lemon cucumber is a round shape that has a lemon taste to it. I am looking forward to trying out the lemon cucumber because they say it is very good in garden salads and I just love garden salads.

If you are new to our landscape living website or you just have not visited in a while. We have some new topics that we have added for the summer months that should give you some great ideas for some backyard sun and fun. Just click on the links below for some great landscape and garden tips. Enjoy

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Spring is slowly working its way into prime time to do some planting. It's been a long winter and now it is time to stretch your legs and take a good look at what you have to do to get your garden going.

As usual around this time of year I start to look at all the gardening magazines to get an ideas of what plants and flowers that I would like to add to this years gardening crop.

One of my things to do is to browse through the Burpee gardening magazine. They have such a variety of flowers and plants to make your garden canvas a masterpiece of flowers and veggies

Hold on, I'm getting a little ahead of myself. Before you can get to all the fun stuff of planting your choice plants from online or a garden nursery. You have to prepare your garden by doing a little tilling of soil.

After many years of using a shovel to get my garden soil ready for planting. A couple of years ago I decided to invest in a garden tiller to make the job of breaking ground for my flower beds much easier.

I have to say it has been one of my most pleasant investments that I have made for my garden. My tiller just zips through the soil with the greatest of ease and it has been very reliable through the past few years.

The most I have had to do for maintenance is change the oil when needed and I have only had to replace one spark-plug so far to keep the engine running fine.

If you think you are in the market to invest in a garden tiller and take load off of your back this gardening season. Her are a few tips we recommend to get you started.