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Fresh Vegetables From Your Own Small Garden

Everyone wants fresh vegetables and fruits in their home. Consider starting your own small garden with a few varieties of your favorite veggies.

What to Expect When Starting a Vegetable Garden at Home

Thinking about starting a vegetable garden at home? That’s great, but take a look at what’s involved first. You may be surprised.

Easy Tips For A Beautiful Garden

Having your own plot of land is a great way to find some harmony within yourself as you cultivate the land and make the nature your personal shrine of happiness and wonder. You can do this easily by planting an assortment of things and watching them bloom on your acreage, on your land, and it will give you a sense of triumph as well as a sense of joy at giving back to a world by making it more beautiful of your own hands’ work. For the springtime, you can plant a garden of flowers.

Pros and Cons of Greenhouse Kits

Should you build a greenhouse from scratch or purchase a greenhouse kit? This is one of the questions you need to answer before starting your project. Nowadays, there are a wide variety of options in greenhouse kits — they can be made of wood, steel, PVC, aluminum, acrylic, glass, polycarbonate, or polyethylene sheeting. There are kit greenhouses available in a size, style, and price range for just about everyone from the beginning hobby gardener up to the professional commercial greenhouse grower.

Buy Bamboo Plants, The Lucky Green Grass

In Chinese, “Fu Gwey Zhu”, is common yet esteemed; Fu means Wealth, Rich, Gwey means Power, honor, Zhu is Bamboo. This article talks of growing bamboo and the myths surrounding the plant.

Rock Gardens And Rock Garden Plants – Part 3

This is the last in my mini series about rock gardens and the plants that you can use to bring them to life and make you the envy of your neighbours. So please read on and enjoy.

How to Be Successful in Pruning and Growing Concord Grapes

Officially, the name Concord grapes originated from the place Concord Massachusetts. It is small sized fruit like a marble that produces very strong sweet flavor. Growing this type of plant is highly possible, though it requires keen planning and implementation.

Earthworms for Your Garden

Worms, it turns out, are very beneficial to our gardens and lawns. As they tunnel through the soil, they loosen the soil making it easier for plant root growth. Their tunneling also tends to aerate the soil which is beneficial for plant root growth.

How To Build A Raised Garden Bed: Ten Things You May Not Know About Them

Raised garden beds have many reasons for being built. It is an obvious convenience. Many people have difficulty in bending and this is the main reason why people build them. Every conceivable design, size and height imaginable is on offer.

Aquaponics Fish – What Species of Fish Are Best Suited for the Job?

So, what species of fish should you rise in your aquaponics system? That depends on many factors. In this article we will discuss what fish are best suited for different purposes.

Growing Rutabaga From Seed

Rutabaga makes a great addition to a variety of dishes. Even more amazing is how easy Rutabaga is to add to your home vegetable garden and even easier yet, to grow them from seed. Here I have outlined some tips to increase your chances of “Rutabaga from seed” success.

Is A Cheap Garden Hose Worth It?

Like many things, garden hoses come in all kinds of varieties and many price points. I was simply amazed when I went to buy a new hose in my local gardening supply store as I hadn’t looked in quite a long time. Not only were there hoses of all lengths, colors, thicknesses, styles such as coiled and retractable, but prices were all over the board. I tend to buy quality where it makes sense, but with new advances in technology and new plastics, rubbers, and manufacturing techniques, maybe the cheap ones were adequate? I decided to investigate, but by talking to knowledge people in the industry, plenty of gardeners both professional and amateur, doing some online research, and buying and using hoses myself.

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