Quitting Your Job to Start a Seed Farm: 3 Year Update

How do you start an organic backyard garden? Tips, techniques and ideas to get you started.

In today’s current economical climate, following the recent downturn, all of us have become more aware of our spending habits! We are also all too well aware of the major issue concerning the environment. If you are looking to purchase a new lawn mower, it may or not surprise you to know that in certain online store best seller lists, you will find several push reel lawn mowers, such as the Scotts reel mower.

It can be wonderful to have a fruit tree in your yard. A fruit tree provides stunning foliage and flowers, as well as delicious, plump fruit. They give you a beautiful tree growing in your backyard, and fruit in your kitchen. Being able to grow your own produce is great all by itself. There is nothing better than eating produce that has not been sprayed by chemicals. These trees provide you health and beauty both outside and inside.

Healthy soil. Healthy soil is the basis to organic gardening. Your plants need food to grow; so regularly feeding the soil is the first step to a healthy garden.

Pruning is an essential process that many people neglect to do when they are growing fruit. Pruning does not produce more fruits, but the ones it does produce are usually bigger and do not come in the inedible variety that happens occasionally. Pruning is actually a really advanced process, but with some care and research can be a straightforward process that can be followed as needed.

Ever considered greenhouse gardening? Growing plants in a greenhouse can expand your gardening horizons far beyond the limits of your geographical bounds. With a backyard greenhouse, the growing season lasts year round.

Are you growing tomatoes in your vegetable garden this year? Growing tomatoes together with certain vegetables, herbs or flowers is called companion planting. This can be of great benefit to the health of the plants you are putting all your time and effort into.

May is the month when everything starts happening in the garden. The garden is bursting with life and everything seems to grow faster and greener. If you have been taking it a bit easy in the garden up until now, you are going to have to start getting your skates on if you are to keep up with your garden as it forges its way into summer. Here are just a few of the jobs you should be getting on with during this most fertile month of May.

Last year was a very dry summer with many areas experiencing little enough rain warrant a hose pipe ban. This winter has also seen low amounts of rainfall and another dry summer now looks likely. Gardeners in Britain are used to having an abundant supply of water and can be said to have adopted a rather care-free attitude when it comes to conserving water. In recent years though we have begun to look at planting schemes for our gardens which include drought tolerant plants, but one area of the garden which has maybe been overlooked in relation to planning for dryer seasons is the vegetable garden. Most vegetables we grow in our gardens require a fair amount of water to produce healthy prolific crops. So which vegetables can we expect to do well in a drought?

If you have been looking for options for growing light, you are going to find that you have two primary options, though some designers have been introducing new models that contain features of both kinds of lamps. In short, however, you have metal halide lamps and high pressure sodium lamps. These lamps are similar in that they are both better than lights that use mercury, though many people don’t understand which is going to be better for their own growing rooms. In this article, we will discuss the 1000 watt HPS bulb, which is a high pressure sodium lamp.

April is a wonderful time in the garden. Spring has sprung, with daffodils and other bulbs brightening up the outdoors, while the weather is getting warmer every day, making it the perfect time to crack on with the many outstanding tasks.

When space is at a premium in the garden, take on a CBD attitude – grow your plants above each other rather than beside each other. Vertical hydroponics gardening is a method that allows for the maximal amount of produce to be grown in small areas. Read this article to find out how…