There’s so much to love about growing your own food, but sometimes you’ll need a bit of help with things like how to stop the birds from eating your fruit or how to tell when your squash is ready. This is where you can find those answers and more!
Sometimes you only have enough space for container gardening when you live in an apartment. However, did you know container gardening also comes with its perks? When keeping crops in containers, you can tailor-fit each pot to the plant’s needs. Moreover, you can move the pots around to give your plants the most sunlight. Get…
Growing your crops at home is all about one thing: Making sure they grow as healthy as possible. Sure, that means you need to water them properly and expose them to the right amount of sunlight. It also means you want to provide them with the necessary support for optimal growth. In other words, you…
What I love about growing your own food is you don’t need a huge plot of land. You can have a plentiful harvest with a few containers on your deck, patio, or balcony. The trick is to maximize your yields through container crop rotation. Crop rotation allows you to get the most out of a…
As environmentally friendly as it is, growing a garden isn’t always a sustainable endeavor, especially when a lot of chemicals are involved. That kind of defeats the purpose, doesn’t it? After all, growing a garden is all about using natural resources effectively to grow your crops/flowers. How can you do that? That’s what I aim…
Look, growing crops at home is a noble endeavor, but it can get a bit too pricey. Who wants to keep spending money on seeds? Well, what if there was a way to continue producing high-quality crops without spending any money? What dark magic is this? It’s not dark magic. It’s just a simple harvesting…
The concept of urban gardening is simple. Use whatever space you have available to grow whatever plants you want. The practice lends itself well to small-space gardening using balconies, rooftop gardens, windowsills and can extend to community gardens. In terms of growing your own fruits, veg, and herbs, the main benefit is reduced food miles….
Plugging seedlings into ground soil without gradually acclimating them to the very diverse changes in their growing conditions will most likely result in transplant shock. Hardening off seedlings is the gardeners’ lingo for toughening your plant up to cope with all-weathers. When to start How to tell the difference between seed leaves and true leaves?…
It’s well-known that using incorrect harvesting techniques can harm your plants significantly and reduce your garden production. Luckily, this unpleasant scenario is easily avoidable if you learn the simple rules for sustainable harvesting. This is what the post is all about. I’ll share the best general tips for harvesting and specific tricks you should consider…
You might have heard how complicated it is to grow peppers indoors. Well, this is true for a beginner gardener. However, it’s also true that with a few insider tips, you won’t struggle to grow these plants indoors again. You’ll learn these tricks here! In this post, I’ll touch on the steps to growing peppers…
Rather than heading to the fridge to grab a couple of zucchini for your soup recipe, imagine strolling to your patio and picking them from your raised bed supermarket garden. You can go about this in several ways. It all depends on the number of raised beds you have and which fruits and vegetables you…