Category: Gardening
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Growing Food with Indoor Hydroponic Vegetable Garden
Hydroponics is the scientific way of growing plants in a nutrient solution with no soil involve. Hydroponic gardening is a great alternative to land farming because it requires less space and easy to manage both indoors and outdoors. While the cost of setting up a hydroponic system is expensive, you can grow vegetables, herb and…
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Which Types of Houseplants are Best for Your Home?
Growing plants indoors can add a bit of Zen to your home, be it your living room, bedroom, bathroom or even your office. Orchid, Boston fern, Peace lily and Cactus are some of the best low light indoor plants that clean the air and remove toxins around your house. But which types of houseplants are…
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How to Grow Fruits in Your Garden All Year Round
Fruits in general, naturally grows in cycles and become ripe throughout a specific season every year. While we all love to eat apples, avocado, banana and blueberries, with a careful planning, you can transform your backyard garden into a four-season source of fresh fruits, lowering your dependency on food store – even during winter. So…
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The Herb Grower’s Cheat Sheet
Herbs like basil, thyme, rosemary and parsley are plants with many variety of uses. Herb gardening is fairly easy task with amazing benefits: adding flavor to our food and taking care of our diseases. Many herbalist treasure herbs as natural botanical medicines. Other gardeners love their aroma that can be included on their dishes. Learn…
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Vertical Gardening: Save Space by Growing Up
Vertical gardening is a great alternative for backyard gardeners who have limited horizontal space. It is also a nice way to cover your unattractive wall. There are variety of vertical planters available—like stake, cage, tripod, teepee, a-frame, arbor, flat and fence trellis—for your ornamental and edible plants. The graphic below also provide an instruction on…
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How to Make a Plant Terrarium
A terrarium is an indoor mini garden placed in a transparent plastic jar or glass bowl container. Building your own terrarium is a wonderful project to undertake: planting is simple, caring is easy and they’re beautiful to look at while on your table top or hanging in the air. They even recycle their own moisture…
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Fertilizer Facts: What, When and How Often
Even the well-managed garden can reap some benefits from the application of fertilizer. A growing plant go through a natural process that absorb nutrients from the soil. Adding organic or chemical fertilizer improve the soil structure and provide nourishment for plant growth. Determining when is the right time to use fertilizer, choosing the correct type…
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Using Plants to Attract Birds to Your Backyard Garden
The presence of wild birds chirping and hopping around your backyard garden is not only a joy to watch but also helps in getting rid of insects during the late spring and summer. To attract birds on your garden, you must provide more than just a nestbox. Birds select a nest site based mostly on…
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Guide to Repotting Indoor Plants
With proper watering, lighting and temperature, houseplants can thrive and grow. Over time, your indoor plants will outgrown its original pot and you need to move them on bigger containers. With this guide to repotting indoor plants, you’ll learn when to repot and how to take out the plant without damaging its leaves and roots.…
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Bonsai Tree Care: 8 Tips for Beginners
Here’s a good infographic on how to take care of your bonsai tree. It focuses on beginner bonsai methods: what fertilizer to use, the right temperature, picking the best pot, pest control and structural pruning. Caring for the health, growth and upkeep of your bonsai is necessary and stimulates new growth aside from keeping the…