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How to make your own growing medium and/or potting soil!96

How to make your own growing medium and/or potting soil!

This is an easy and fun DIY project, not a clean and tidy one but if you’re a gardener you're already mucking around in the dirt anyway so it’s just a little side step to mix your own ‘blend’. The...

26 comments    advice how to make
Types Of Fertilizers82

Types Of Fertilizers

Fertilizers are substances that are either added to the soil or applied directly to plants to enhance the growth and strength of plants. Most importantly these substances are added to the soil to make the soil more fertile in general so the plants...

1 comment    gardening environment vegetables
Saint Patrick Versus "The Snakes"76

Saint Patrick Versus "The Snakes"

A in-depth look into the myths and facts around Saint Patrick's Day.

11 comments    religion history holiday
Growing Cranberries78

Growing Cranberries

Most home gardeners don't think about growing cranberries in their home gardens but it can be done. The cranberry grows naturally only on the continent of North America.

9 comments    cranberry cranberries peat moss
How to Grow  Commercial Anthurium .83

How to Grow Commercial Anthurium .

Anthurium is one of the phenomenal flowers ever known due to very expensive price it had ever reached. One record said that good quality of anthurium had reached 55,000 US$, so it's very reasonable to know how to grow Anthurium for economy purpose, to anticipate a well known saying: "History repeats itself", and so will the glory of Anthurium.

11 comments    family how to home
How to Store Root Vegetables in Boxes in a Cellar77

How to Store Root Vegetables in Boxes in a Cellar

Here is the first turnip I got out of my garden this summer. One week, nothing...the next, I had a bunch pushing their shoulders through the soil, and begging to be pulled. Keeping root vegetables in a cellar or in piles of straw used to be a common...

7 comments    how to food how
Weather's Affects On Your Yard And How To Protect It76

Weather's Affects On Your Yard And How To Protect It

CUTTING THE GRASS You need only cut your grass every two weeks. Yes it gets long, but it gets a chance to grow a bit before you chop it's head off again. This statement is very true in the heat of summer. You should raise the lawn mower blade...

0 comments    weather compost lawn
Five Tips For Beautiful Hydrangeas76

Five Tips For Beautiful Hydrangeas

Hydrangeas are one of my favorite flowering perennials. In shrub form, a mature plant can grow to be five feet tall and six to eight feet wide. The plants require little: regular watering, good soil, and a few hours of sunlight every day. Blooms on the most common hydrangea are typically blue or pink, but have also been bread to be pure white. Hydrangea are easy to care for, easy to grow, and with the right care, provide terrific blooms through the spring and summer. Follow these simple tips and

5 comments    fertilizer hydrangea peat moss
Grow a Container Garden74

Grow a Container Garden

I have a checkered past when it comes to gardening. In my early married days I went through an earth-mother phase that would have guaranteed entry to even the choosiest hippie commune. I had an acre of land and felt obligated to plant it up with...

14 comments    flowers vegetables fruit
How to Propagate Geraniums from Cuttings76

How to Propagate Geraniums from Cuttings

This article will give you detailed instructions on how to "clone" your favorite geranium plant from a cutting. It is easy to do, and each new plant will have the same characteristics of the first plant so there will be no surprises!

14 comments    gardening plants seed
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