6 Easy Steps To Set Up Your First Vertical Garden
Can't find a place to grow your favorite flowering plants in your cramped apartment? Finding an empty wall boring in your house? Either way, a vertical garden can be the ideal solution for you. It's easy to use vertical spaces, like empty walls, by hanging mount...
How To Grow Espalier Tomatoes?
Espalier tomatoes are perfect for the home garden, due to their relative ease with which they are grown, their color, the number of nutritional benefits, and because it is an excellent delicacy that can be cooked in many ways. Tomatoes are one of the most consumed...
Grow Fantastic Tomatoes In Containers
Tomatoes can be grown easily in container gardens. Read this article to learn how: Use large containers. Tomatoes are large plants when they mature. For this reason, your container size should be at least 12 – 14″ in width or diameter. Any smaller container than this...
Frequent Problems With Annuals
Annuals are among the most varied, most beautiful and most colorful flowers on the market. The sheer variety of annuals, the many colors, shapes and textures they come in, has made them a favorite among gardeners for many years. With so many different annuals on the...
Enjoy This Summer In The Water Garden!
Enjoy This Summer In The Water Garden! – If this is the first time you’re attempting the water gardening, perhaps you should start with a moderate size pond instead of one huge one. After all, you can add on to the size of the pond later if you want, whereas if you do...
Take Care Of Your Garden Containers
Take Care Of Your Garden Containers – Once you have decided what plants that you would like to place in your garden planters and containers, then you will need to get the container soil ready for each pot. When working with potting mix, always make sure that the mix...
Planting In Hypertufa Containers
Planting In Hypertufa Containers – Hypertufa is a mixture of cement, sand and peat that you just mix up and slap on. A coating of hypertufa is a great way to make a whole lot of tatty old pots instantly match. Turn a grotty dark damp garden into a romantic grotto in...
Growing Curry Plant
Curry plant (Helichrysum italicum) is a delightful and fragrant herb plant. Curry plant is native to Turkey and thrives on sunny slopes where it attracts beneficial insects to its unusual flowers. Curry plant looks very similar to a lavender in its leaf stage. Seeds...
Decorating Your Garden With Herbs
Decorating Your Garden With Herbs – Most herbs are perennial plants that need six to eight hours of sunlight and well drained soil. Some are annuals and must be replanted every year. Even some annuals like rosemary and lemon verbena become annual in very cold areas of...
Growing Hops In The Garden
Growing Hops In The Garden – The hop is a hardy, perennial plant that is easily grown at home. The hop (humulus lupulus) is a good plant to grow in a container provided that a wall can offer it some support. A vigorous perennial climber, it will cover a trellis in...
Useful Ground Cover Plants
Useful Ground Cover Plants – The best ground cover plants are evergreen. St. John’s wort (Hypericum) can be grown in a shady part of the garden where its bright yellow flowers will grow out of the darkness. Rose of Sharon (Hypericum calycinum) flowers from early...
Monstera Plant
Monstera has been a favorite house plant for many years. With proper care young specimens (sometimes mistakenly sold as Philodendron pertusum) soon develop large adult leaves which are perforated and deeply cut. Sturdy support is essential, and stems can reach a heigh...
How to Maintain your Wooden Garden Shed
It could be that you have opted for a wooden shed to feature in your garden. After all, they are traditional, rustic and great to look at. You can even paint them in any colour you want to fit in with the decoration you have in mind to make it more picturesque. ...
Add Personal Touch In Your Garden With Garden Accessories
Add Personal Touch In Your Garden With Garden Accessories – Think of your garden like you would a room in your home. After planning the shape, tilling the soil, choosing the right plants the last step is to add those personal touches. And just like indoors this is...
Herbs For An Indoor Garden
Herbs For indoor Garden – When we think of starting a garden, the first location to plant that come to mind is the great out doors, usually in a back yard a small plot of land close to where we live. Surprisingly, gardens can also be cultivated indoors in pots or...
