If your backyard has less-than-ideal soil or land, consider using a raised tree bed or garden bed design. Raised bed gardening blunders can be costly to your plants. So once you’ve mastered the ins and outs of building a raised garden bed, it’s time to go to work on preparing your bed. If you’re building …
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An ideal summer gardening plan is essential if you want your garden to survive the scorching heat. As with any hobby, gardeners have their own unique ways of celebrating summer. For instance, while many parts of the south and centre bake dry, the humidity is revitalized by soaking storms. However, the rest of us face …
First of all, you can grow any plant in a greenhouse, be it a legume, herb, spice, leafy green, flower, fruit, microgreen or root vegetable. If it can grow in a regular outdoor garden, it can grow in a greenhouse. As a matter of fact, the plant could do better in a greenhouse. That’s the …
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Without proper care and maintenance, a greenhouse could turn into the opposite of what it was built for. Instead of protecting crops, it could be their death. At the very least, it could make your gardening efforts less productive and efficient. For example, dirty windows can reduce the amount of sunlight that gets to the …
Whether you are a beginner or veteran, commercial or subsistence greenhouse gardener, the tomato is arguably the one vegetable you should know how to grow. In fact, it is probably the most common greenhouse vegetable and for a good reason. For one, everyone (or at least most people) loves tomatoes. Most people also prefer fresh …
One of the reasons that stop people from starting a garden is the thought of waiting several weeks for harvest. Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be this way. There are fast-growing vegetables that you can harvest in just a few weeks after sowing. There is even one in this article that you can harvest within …
Above-ground vegetables are perfect if you don’t have enough root space. They are the answer to rocky soil or shallow containers. To avoid any confusion, by above-ground vegetables, we mean vegetables that grow their edible, intended-for-harvest parts above the ground. These parts could be leaves, buds, shoots, flowers and fruits growing on vines and flowers. …
Our article, How to Grow Vegetables Indoors, mentioned some supplies needed to achieve this goal. Light is chief among them. It is the most unique and essential factor to consider when growing vegetables indoors. Firstly, light is crucial to plant growth. Without it, there is no photosynthesis. Therefore, plants can’t develop and bear fruits. Secondly, …
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Do you want a regular harvest of fresh vegetables year-round? Do you want fresh vegetables in winter when the growing season has already ended? Or in early spring, when most people are just preparing their gardens for the new growing season? Do you want to grow vegetables in winter? If your answers to all four …
Indoor gardening is not for spices, herbs and ornamental plants alone. You can use the same method to grow a table full of vegetables. In other words, you can complete the entire growth cycle of edible vegetables (from seed sowing to harvest) inside your house. So, the idea of growing vegetables indoors is perfect if …
