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The Importance of Soil Chemisty
Every gardener strives to grow the tastiest vegetables around, but that goal is often difficult to achieve. Whether you want to raise prize-winning pumpkins or just want to fill the kitchen with home-grown vegetables, there are some things you can do in order to ensure your garden is in the best shape possible. Soil chemistry [...]
Growing Your Own Herbs
If you’re not the type of person who wants to spend their time managing an elaborate fruit or vegetable garden, you might consider planting and maintaining an herb garden. You can still enjoy the constant availability of fresh, delicious herbs to flavor your meals with. Firstly you should choose the herbs that you’ll plant. Take [...]
Tomato Troubles and Diseases
A glance through any gardening book will list a whole host of potential problems with tomatoes – but don’t let this put you off. Out in the garden things are really a whole lot simpler. Here are the most common issues you might face growing tomatoes. All of them are quite simple to deal with, [...]
Container Gardening – Growing Vegetables in Pots
Does your vegetable garden consist of a small balcony, a few yards between your garage and your neighbor’s fence, a great expanse of paving without a single blade of grass? If you’re short on space, consider growing vegetables in containers. Flowers grow well in pots, and what’s good enough for flowers is good enough for [...]
Vegetable Gardening – Back in Fashion
These days vegetable gardening is almost fashionable. With the growing concern about eating organic, about treading lightly on the planet and about stretching the budget as far as it will go, vegetable gardening is once again popular. What would our grandparents say? But all that aside, vegetable gardening can produce vegetables that are usually cheaper [...]
Growing Orange Trees
With a bit of care and attention, oranges, lemons and even limes can be grown in any climate. While the warmer climates are certainly more suited to citrus fruits, gardeners in frosty areas can still grow citrus very successfully in containers that can be protected from the cold.
