Turn Your Wall Into a Vertical Garden
You can bring your wall alive with a vertical wall garden. If you can do it properly, it will add life to your house making it both functional and attractive. There are many different ways you can go about it. Don’t worry if you can’t find anybody to help you. There are lots of vertical [...]
Advice On Growing Strawberries
Many people want to learn all about growing strawberries in their backyard. Although the harvest is still some 6 to 10 months away at the most, it is not so difficult for strawberry plants to bear fruits real well, especially if you know the things to consider. In fact, they can occur as early as three weeks. This [...]
Fungus Gnat Control
Your doing your weekly watering of your houseplants and all of a sudden you look down at the soil and see tiny little black things crawling around in your soil. You go to inspect your plant closer and you see more of them flying around on the undersides and on top of your plants leaves. [...]
The Advantages of Raised Garden Beds and How to Build Them
Raised gardens refer to plants, often vegetable plants, which are grown on platforms which are raised from the ground and thus segregated from the surrounding regions. Of the many types of such beds, the most frequently found variety are raised garden beds with legs. What makes these beds even more lucrative for the average gardening [...]
Container Vegetable Gardening Tips
Container vegetable gardening is becoming more common these days and is much more dangerous to our diets. More and more people want to grow some of their own vegetables in an attempt to avoid buying non-organic products, or to pay high prices for organic products. With the prevalence of a recent outbreak of salmonella, e. sticks and other [...]
A Really Cool Reason To Join HelpfulGardener.com
I just found this site and well if you are looking to join a garden site this is the one. Not only do they have tons of different forums for each aspect of gardening they give away free seeds. How can you beat that? Um… you can’t. These aren’t your garden variety (sorry couldn’t resist) [...]
Starting Plants From Seed Indoors Plant propagation is an inexpensive method of increasing garden stock and one of the most valued propagation methods is via seed germination. American writer, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings alluded to lush flora and fauna as beginning with “ … the the cosmic secrecy of seed,” but it is not a secret. [...]
Backyard Renovation and Improvement Essentials
When a backyard renovation plan goes perfectly, you’re rewarded with an entirely new area that complements your home. But if you’re not ready for the work involved with the process, you could end up with a disaster on your hands. Far too many people try to tackle too much too soon, and they can essentially [...]
How To Make A Simple Homemade Compost Tumbler
How To Make A Compost Tumbler Composting is great, there are so many things about it that make it one of the best things that you can do for you and your garden. What is not so great about composting is the time it takes for everything to breakdown and become organic matter. This has [...]
Best Methods For Drying Peppers And Drying Chillies
Methods Of Drying Chili Peppers So you grew your peppers for the first time or you over planted your plants and now have idea how to preserve peppers. Yeah I have been there too, that was me my first year of gardening. I decided to plant 3 plants each of jalapeno, cayenne and Thai, needless [...]