Plant Up a Little Green for St. Patrick’s Day




Free Containers for Seed Starting in Your Apartment Container Garden

Growing a plant from a seed can be very exciting, especially when the plant first breaks through the soil to spread its leaves. It’s nearly as exciting as having a child, but costs less and requires less of a commitment! To grow and apartment container garden you need containers to start growing seeds in. Here are some free or very low cost containers.

Anyone Can Grow a Great Tomato!

Do you love the taste of tomatoes fresh from the garden but you just aren’t sure how to grow a tomato? Growing tomatoes is fun and rewarding! Just follow these simple tips to grow the perfect tomato in your garden.

Pansy: The Colour of Fantasy

Pansies are hybrid flowers commonly cultivated as garden flowers. They are derived from Viola species particularly Viola tricolor hybridized with other Viola species. The flowers are produced in wide range of colours including shades of yellow, gold, orange, purple, violet, red, white, and even black with large showy flowers with specific markings. Large number of bicloured flowers is also available. The plants are able to tolerate very low temperatures even during their blooming period. They perform well in sunny or semi-sunny days with well drained soils. They are generally biennials with a two year life cycle.

Gerbera Daisies – Happiness Is Flower Shaped

Fashions change, even with regard to flowers and in recent years the daisy has become far more popular in the form of the gerbera daisy. Silk or natural, these bright cheerful flowers crop up everywhere. This article describes the different types, the colors and how to use them.

Tips to Grow and Take Care of Aloe Vera Plant

Aloe Vera plant is a miraculous plant and the fact that it is a household plant is an exciting one for people who are aware of its uses. One can obtain gel, juice and other products from an Aloe plant and these products are good for health in a number of ways.

Cold Frame Greenhouses

Cold frame greenhouses are a great way to get your feet wet so to speak when it comes to greenhouses. Moreover, these smaller greenhouses are a great way to grow single vegetation for your family, such as tomatoes that you can grow year-round. Many people begin using the cold frame option and then either buy more or invest in a bigger greenhouse.

Companion Planting For Organic Vegetables – How To Make It Work

How to grow more organic vegetables using biocompatible planting strategies. Companion planting works – but only if you do it this way.

New Roses From Old

You can create your own roses through hybridizing your existing roses. This article covers the basics of how to cross breed your roses to have exciting new colors and petal shapes!

What Is Aquaponics? Growing Organic Vegetables Is Now Easier and Faster

Aquaponics has been around for a good few years now but came into the limelight recently on a TV documentary. Basically it is a way to grow vegetables in double fast time while producing more crops. Aquaponics is huge in Australia and in the UK, it is also growing in popularity in the US.

The Grow Your Own Season Gets Under Way In February

I don’t know about you, but I get really excited at this time of year, when the snowdrops are out and the crocuses are bringing back some colour back into the garden. But while I’m admiring the new little flowers that are braving the slightly warmer days, my thoughts are actually turning to the vegetables I plan to grow in the garden this year. We’re still pulling up leeks and using up our sack of last year’s potatoes, but I can’t wait to get going on this year’s crop of grow your own vegetables.

The Best Times And Ways To Sow Flower Bulbs In Your Garden

Flower bulbs are amazing. Whilst I was growing up, I perceived flower bulbs in the soil, and I was not exactly sure what to make of them until my pop explained to me what they are and how they cultivate. It was perplexing for me to grasp as a kid, for the reason that all the other blooms we planted, we literally had to stock as real flowers each and every year. To make things easy, I just started calling them the magical flowers.

Growing Tomatoes – What Type of Tomato Plant to Grow in Your Yard

A look at what is the best type of tomato plant you should grow in your yard to give you a bumper crop of juicy, tasty and ripe tomatoes. Deciding which kind of tomato to grow can be confusing but it is not difficult if you have a little information to help you decide. There are two basic types of tomato plants, determinate and indeterminate and which one you grow can depend on what tomato you are after.

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