Category Archives: Plants

DIY Garden Hotbeds

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Cold frame is a transparent-roofed enclosure that is built into the ground and is used to protect plants from cold weather. The function of building hotbeds in your garden is to provide heat for the plants in cold temperatures. These … Continue reading

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Shopping for Artificial Plants

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Plants make great additions as decorations to any home. But if you do not have the green thumb and limited time, you might have no time to take care for each and every plant you have in the house. The … Continue reading

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Organic Bedding Plants

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Building bedding in your garden is meant for planting specific plants. These beddings will help to protect the plants from weeds and to keep some plants away from others so that these plants would not be disturbing each other’s growth. … Continue reading

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Soil Sample Analysis

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Gardening is a hobby that is dear to many people. Gardeners take a long time before planting to analyze the soil, the temperature and the weather. Everything is done accordingly so that the plant will not suffer after it has … Continue reading

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Planting a Ground Cherry

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Ground cherries or Cape Gooseberries are the close relative of tomato and tomatillo, which are the natives from South of Europe but for more than a century has been grown in North America. Planting ground cherries are easy and quite … Continue reading

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Growing and Harvesting Cilantro

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You will normally find cilantro in Mexico or South Western dishes and it is a plant which falls under the herb category that also has a strong and unique flavor. Apart from that, the cilantro plant is also being used … Continue reading

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Propagating Bamboo Plants

Bamboo plants are not that popular to be placed in a garden. Let’s face it, the places that you probably spotted bamboos are in the forest or on the wild side. You might have second thoughts on whether or not … Continue reading

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Rooting Yams

Gardening, in general, is a fun hobby. It is fun as we, as gardeners, get to try so many things. We get to explore when it comes to gardening. To grow vegetables and to grow fruits are some of the … Continue reading

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Planting a shady border garden

Planting a shady border garden Are you one of those who have a small and shady corner in your garden? If you have no idea on what to do with your shady corner of the lawn then this is the … Continue reading

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Using a cold frame for growing plants all winter

Use A Cold Frame For Growing Plants All Winter If you are one of those people who just can\’t live without gardening, worry not as nothing will bother your pastime if you have a cold frame. We all know that … Continue reading

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Growing Hydroponic Lettuce

Grow Hydroponic Lettuce Hydroponic gardening is a gardening method which does not use soil as its medium. Hydroponic gardening is also where the nutrients used are delivered directly to the plant roots. Besides that, hydroponic gardening is a good method … Continue reading

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Making a Hydroponic Herb Garden

Vegetable gardening is no longer confined to having to play around with dirt and getting our fingernails messy with rows or mounds of soil. Many fresh fruits and vegetables that you may purchase from the store these days are grown … Continue reading

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Building a Hydroponics Tomato Grower

Build a Hydroponics Tomato Grower Hydroponic gardening is a gardening method that does not use soil as its medium. Hydroponic gardening consists of the nutrients used being delivered directly to the plant roots. If you have the knowledge, it is … Continue reading

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Building Cheap Hydroponics

Build Cheap Hydroponics Over the years, the use and importance of Hydroponic systems have either been underrated or underestimated. Some of us think that Hydroponic system is an expensive method of doing your gardening, but as a matter of fact … Continue reading

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Build a Floating Hydroponic Garden

Building a Floating Hydroponic Garden Building a floating hydroponic garden, also known as the Raft system, provides an advantage to gardeners because its plants are normally free from pests and would be able to produce as the plant grows using … Continue reading

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