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List of Perennials ~ List of Fail-Safe Plants

Gardening is more fun if you have some success to show for your time and effort. The following is a list of favorite fail-safe perennial plants: Amsonia hubrechtli (Thread-leaf Blue Star): This former Perennial Plant of the Year is an American native with foliage that looks beautiful into late October. Aster ‘Purple Dome’:  It likes [...]

Growing Basil Indoors

A true monarch of herbs, appropriately, since its name is derived from Basileus, the Greek word for King. Once you have cooked with it there is no escape, you become addicted and have to restrain yourself from adding it to every dish. Sweet basil (Ocinum basilicum Labiatae)is a native of south-east Asia and has been [...]

Herb Companions For Garden and Kitchen

Herbs are great companions to food in your culinary masterpieces, and they are great companions in the garden too. Anise: In the garden: Plant with coriander, which promotes its germination and growth. In the kitchen: Use in cookies, cakes, fruit fillings, and breads, or with cottage cheese, shellfish, and spaghetti dishes. Basil In the garden: [...]

Green Beans Types – Chart

Green beans are separated into two types — Pole beans vs bush beans. The varieties within these two types are listed below. Bush varieties: Burpee’s Tenderpod- stingless green pod, harvest at 50 days, has 5-inch-long green pods. Contender, 50 days (green) Rocdor, 53 days (yellow) Cherokee Wax, 55 days (yellow) Golden Wax/Improved Golden Wax/Pencil Pod [...]

ReVisit Your Local Farmers Market

It’s not too late in the season to bring back those childhood memories. You all remember, you might still notice those colorful road side displays even today: “Farmers Market-Held Today ” or the “U-Pick” road side signs that beckon the traveler to come in and try their hand at finding the best produce in the [...]

Companion Herb Planting~Your Secret Weapon!

When it comes to herbs, companion plants may prove to play a vital roll in the overall health of your garden — not only for your herb garden, but also for your patch of vegetables as well as your flowerbeds too! That’s because some plants actually grow better when they’re sitting next to other plants. [...]

Organic Gardening the Natural No Dig Way

An Australian named Esther Deans first developed the idea of the No-Dig Gardens method. It was originally developed both as a labor saving idea and a backyard organicgardening method to rejuvenate badly depleted soil in a vegetable garden. The process involves starting with layers of newspaper and by adding lucerne hay, straw and compost in [...]

When & How To Prune Rose Bushes

If not properly pruned, rose bushes can develop into a large tangled mess and produce small, inferior blooms. If you would like to grow an attractive, well shaped, sizable rose bush that produces large lovely blooms, then follow the rose gardening tips outlined below. Pruning your rose bushes at the right time of year can [...]

How to Start a Vegetable Garden in Your Backyard

Nowadays, it’s ideal if you can plant your own vegetables to make sure that they’re pesticide free, but a lot of people feel intimidated by the idea of vegetable garden planting, especially in the city. Vegetable gardens are typically easier to maintain than flower gardens because vegetables are more resilient, especially in different types of [...]

Herb Garden in Pots

When considering the prospect of planting a container herb garden or a backyard herb garden, be aware that all herbs can be grown in containers, however, some herbs thrive much better then others. Indoor herb gardens require the same growing conditions that garden herbs require. One advantage to growing container herbs is the ability to [...]

Compost Instructions

Many people who maintain gardens have a large amount of compost yard waste, from grass clippings to leaves and dead plants. Unfortunately, many waste time, money and energy having these wastes transported to a landfill. It isn’t just a waste of good organic gardening compost; it’s a waste of everything that goes into the process [...]

Home Garden Supply

Because gardening has evolved into such a popular activity, home garden supply products are not hard to come by. You can buy outdoor garden decorations in various stores or nurseries, or you can order your home garden supply online or from catalogs. A gardeners products can range from equipment too fertilizer or to the actual [...]

Selling at a Farmer’s Markets

Usually the main motivation for planting a fruit tree is just the joy of maintaining a tree and eating the delicious fruit that comes from it. However, in my personal experience it is possible to go on a quite lucrative venture with fruit trees by operating a fruit stand or participating in a farmer’s market. [...]

How to Safely Spray Pesticide

If you want to protect your fruit tree from pests during the summer, this is almost impossible to accomplish without the use of pesticides or chemicals. This might scare some people into thinking that the actual fruits will contain traces of the chemicals. If you do things correctly, you can get rid of all the [...]

Basics of Vegetable Garden Planting

Not a lot of people try vegetable garden planting these days, especially in the city. With the busy lifestyle, constrained spaces, and pollution, it seems inconceivable that a vegetable garden would survive. The fact is, you can actually grow vegetables even if you are smack dab in the middle of a busy city. It’s only [...]

Vegetable Gardens for Stress Relief

More than reducing the sum of money allocated for food, there is another very beneficial effect to vegetable garden planting that will really give your health a tremendous boost: it’s called stress relief. We all know how stress wreaks havoc to our overall health. Aside from the more obvious fact that stress takes joy and [...]

How To Start a Garden in Your Backyard

In periods of financial difficulty, vegetable garden planting becomes a viable option that achieves two things: it helps the family reduce expenses related to buying food, and it offers the opportunity to sell the surplus to friends and neighbors. Starting a vegetable garden is not particularly difficult, as long as you put enough time, thought [...]

Rotating Vegetable Crops

A lot of people are beginning to see the benefits of vegetable garden planting. It’s usually healthier because you get to decide whether or not to use commercial pesticides. Since vegetable gardening planting is typically manageable in size because they’re not grown for profit, it’s easier for people to manage the plot without having to [...]

Backyard Vegetable Garden Ideas

The structure of your vegetable garden does not have to be entirely functional but it should look and feel good. Building some decorative arches and some tomato cages will not only make your garden look good but it will also help it produce more crops. After all, there is more to vegetable garden planting than [...]

Vegetables and Their Vitamins

Instead of setting up a swimming pool or a Zen garden in your backyard, why not plant vegetables instead? Vegetable garden planting is a great way to spend quiet time de-stressing while getting in touch with nature. Having a steady supply of vegetables will also lessen food expenses and improve the health of your loved [...]

Vegetable Gardens for Dummies

Nowadays, it’s ideal if you can plant your own vegetables to make sure that they’re pesticide free, but a lot of people feel intimidated by the idea of vegetable garden planting, especially in the city. Vegetable gardens are typically easier to maintain than flower gardens because vegetables are more resilient, especially in different types of [...]

Indoor Vegetable Gardening

Nothing beats the fresh wholesome taste of fresh vegetables picked right from your very own backyard vegetable garden. Vegetable garden planting can be a challenge if you don’t have a backyard, but you can still grow your own vegetables indoors. Just follow a few simple garden-smart guidelines. Choose Appropriate Vegetables Different plants have different requirements [...]

Vegetable Garden Layout

Your vegetable garden layout will depend upon what vegetables you intend to grow, the planting space available and if you would like to opt for companion planting. Here are some helpful tips on how to layout your own garden and start planting vegetables. Sit Down and Plan Before choosing a layout you need to decide [...]

Indoor Hydroponic Gardening

Many gardeners are beginning to switch to a hydroponics home garden for many different reasons. A hydroponics garden can be small, can easily be grown inside and are perfect for most vegetables, especially the red tomato. Additionally, hydroponic gardening supplies are relatively inexpensive and they are quite easy to manage. Indoor hydroponic gardening is the [...]

Understanding Container Gardening

If you are a garden lover, but have no space for your gardening appetite, don’t worry, gardening is not necessarily out of your reach. In the available space of your house say your balcony, patio, deck, or sunny window, you can create a container garden, which will not only bring you joy but also vegetables. [...]

Indoor Garden Design

A lot of people stick a fake tree in a corner, dust the leaves off every week, and call it indoors gardening. There are also people that think plants belong and should always remain outside. But indoor garden design has grown into much more than that lately. There are many reasons for indoor plant growing. [...]

Small Garden Design Basics

The thing to remember while planting backyard garden is to start small. In raised vegetable garden beds, about 25 or 30 feet square, is just enough room for about 30 plants. This will give you a chance to try out your green thumb and if you find that you enjoy your small garden design you [...]

Gardeners Gloves

One of the best things about gardening is felling warm, moist dirt in your bare hands, but you will often end up with blistered, chapped, and scraped skin. The solution to this problem is gardening gloves. The more time you spend getting down and dirty in the garden, the more you need gardening gloves. Gardening [...]

Home Garden Tips

Home garden tips are not that hard to come by. In fact, you can get a gardeners advice from another gardener, in a gardeners catalogue, gardeners books, garden and home magazine, and even from gardening advice websites. Although you will have variations with each plant, there are some home and garden tips that are universal [...]

Basic Tools For Gardening

Nearly every gardener has some type of lawn and garden tool, it’s nearly impossible to have a garden without them. The type of lawn and garden tool you use will obviously depend on the size and extent of your garden, what you are able to handle, if you want to spend a lot of time [...]

Organic Garden Tips

An organic garden is exactly the same as a regular garden except that there are no synthetic fertilizers or pesticides used. This can make certain aspects at times difficult, such as controlling disease, insects, and weeds. Backyard organic gardening also requires more attention to the soil and the many needs of individual plants. An organic [...]

Design Japanese Garden

Japanese garden design is a cultural form of gardening that is meant to produce a scene that mimics nature as much as possible by using trees, shrubs, rocks, sand, artificial hills, ponds, and flowing water as art-forms. The Zen and Shinto traditions play a large part in creating Japanese gardens and because of this; the [...]

Avoid Garden Fungus

Most of us are ready to make an investment for landscaping to give a face lift to our homes. Yet we failed when it comes time for some basic plant pruning when our plants need it most. Then we wonder why our highly invested landscape looks terrible. Check out the following home garden tips to [...]

Vegetable Garden Plans

Vegetable gardening has lately become just as popular as going to the grocery store for produce. Vegetable gardening can produce vegetables that are usually cheaper than store bought, and home grown vegetables definitely taste better by far. Vegetable gardening is no different than growing herbs or flowers and if the proper steps are taken and [...]

Fall Vegetable Gardening

Many gardeners do not even consider fall vegetable gardening because of the winter frosts that might make an early appearance. On the contrary, fall vegetable gardening will result in excellent produce and will extend crops long after spring plants have been harvested. Vegetable garden planting in the fall yields a much sweeter and milder vegetable [...]

Butterfly Flower Garden

When creating a butterfly flower garden, the possibilities of what to include in your butterfly garden design are endless. Below are some helpful suggestions to help you get started. They are designed to spark the creative process of your mind and get you started on your way to creating a lovely butterfly flower garden. Before [...]

Indoor House Plant Care

Many people worry a lot when it comes to caring for their plants. When talking about indoor house plant care, there is no need to worry. There are just a few things you need to consider. 1. Overwatering House Plants Overwatering kills most indoor house plants. Looks can be deceiving. To check if your plants [...]

Vegetable Gardening Tips

With the costs of living increasing all the time, it may be possible to save money and boost your family’s health at the same time by growing vegetables in your backyard. Here are some vegetable gardening tips which will help you in your endeavor. It’s a good idea to choose your favorite vegetables to grow [...]

Disease Free Roses

To make sure that your prized roses remain in the best of health, simply follow these tips: 1. Black Spots on Leaves This disease is commonly known as rose bush black spot disease. The appearance of black spots are circular with fringed edges on the leaves. They cause the leaves to turn yellow. Remove the [...]

Hydroponics Home Garden

Hydroponics was derived from the Greek word hydro, which means “water” and ponos, which means “labor or water-working”. Hydroponics gardening involves growing plants with their roots in other nutrient solutions and without soil. A hydroponics garden is as simple as ordinary gardening. Both of them require sufficient light, water, temperature and humidity. But with indoor [...]

Benefits of Kids Gardens

We can all see how nature is treated these days. It’s a sad thing to know that people do not pay attention so much anymore to the environmental problems. What can we do about this? It’s as simple as starting with our children. It is good to see the children’s involvement with environmental-friendly activities. One [...]

The Best Tools For Gardening

Different kinds of gardens require different kinds of garden tools. Hardware stores mostly cater to a wide range of tools, but there are shops that specialize in the more expensive kind of garden tool that shouts quality. Wherever you decide to shop, here are a few pointers to guide you. Do you have a small [...]

Going Organic for Plants

Organic garden control is a way of growing a fruit and vegetable garden through the use of products or materials only found in nature. 1. DIY Compost You can easily make your own compost directly from kitchen and garden scraps. Though this may be a bit more time-consuming than buying prepared chemical pesticides and fertilizers, [...]

Indoor Plant Growing

Aside from the aesthetic value an indoor house plant provides your home with, there are also health benefits – grade school science class tells us that indoor plant growing cleanse’s the air through utilizing the carbon dioxide and producing more oxygen. The following contains some important information on how to care for your indoor house [...]

Some of the Best Home Garden Magazines

Various home garden magazines are available in the market today. But would you like to know which stands out from the rest? Here is a selection of home garden magazines that anyone that has a passion for gardening will appreciate. COUNTRY GARDENS often showcases the more unusual gardens around the country. It introduces wonderful new [...]

Six Small Home Gardening Tips

Beautiful small backyards can still hold a well-maintained garden design, only two things are required – determination and know-how. Here are some tips on how to keep your small backyard oasis looking spruced up and glamorous. 1. Deadheading Flowers Keep your borders free from wilted flowers and dried leaves. Deadheading plants or removing dead flower [...]

Container Gardening Ideas

Planting garden pots can create a natural sanctuary on a busy city street, along rooftops or on balconies. You can easily accentuate the welcoming look of a deck or patio with colorful gardening pots of annuals, or create windowsill gardens with beautiful shrub roses or any number of small perennials. Whether you arrange your gardening [...]

Organic Gardening Pest Control

Gardening pest control must be done with the utmost consideration to safety; safety in terms of the plants, animals and to humans as well. This holds especially true for those with organic gardens. The main purpose people grow organic vegetables would be defeated if they became tainted with gardening pest control chemicals. Here are a [...]

Modern Gardening Power Tools

The types and quality of equipment you use to take care of your plants not only has an effect on your plants’ health, but your own as well. Defective tools could cause damage to your plants, but it is worse if they are so uncomfortable to use that they give you blisters or a bad [...]

Gloves for Gardening

Gardeners gloves protect your hands from blisters, thorns and cuts while doing rough work like digging or pruning in the garden. Investing in one or more pairs of quality gloves is a good decision and a great investment. Here are some tips on how to choose the appropriate pair that will suit your needs the [...]

How to Flower Garden

Knowing how to flower garden can make a big difference in the look and over-all health of your plants. Here are some simple hints to make your garden bloom with health: 1. The essentials must always be given major consideration. Your flower garden must have an adequate supply of water, sunlight, and fertile soil. Any [...]

Butterfly Garden Design

What is butterfly gardening? Simply put butterfly gardening is the art of growing flowers and plants that will attract these colorful and dainty creatures to your garden. Delight your family and visitors with beautiful butterflies, but be sure to create a safe habitat for them. If you own cats rethink your plans, because it would [...]

Basic Flower Garden Designs

Many times we buy plants on impulse then find there is nowhere in the garden that really suits them. Before buying plants carefully examine your garden to see how much sun and shade it gets, whether the soil is well drained or waterlogged and whether your aspect is sheltered or windswept. You’ll then be equipped [...]

Garden Aerator Basics

Do you long for a beautiful lush, green lawn, but your yard is just not cooperating? You’ve probably fertilized and watered your lawn 10 times over, year after year, thinking that may be the trick. Sometimes you may feel that you’re in a catch 22: If you don’t feed, fertilize and water your lawn, it [...]