Category Archives: General Gardening Wisdom

(Video) Scarecrow: Your Garden May Be In A Serious Need Of One

 

If you’re seeing holes on your fruits and veggies, then crows seem to be the culprit

Fighting bad insects and burrowing animals is what most gardeners are pretty good at. But they often tend to forget about the birds.

Certain birds may come and peck at your fruits and veggies. And we’re sure that can drive you crazy.

Here’s why the old-fashioned way would work just as good as it did in the past – the scarecrow.

Get to know how to make one yourself. Learn which items you need and it’s time to make your own stuffed scarecrow.

You’ll witness the entire process from start to finish. Give it a name, and put it in the garden. Goodbye, crows!

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How To Remove The Excess Nutrients From The Soil

 

Several simple methods for balancing the minerals in your garden’s soil

Could there be excess nutrients in the soil? The answer is firmly yes. While you may think that sounds great (less dealing with composting, mulching, etc), but it turns out that’s not as good as it sounds.

Your plants can suffer just as much as if they were malnourished.

If you notice that they grow but turn unhealthy green or die soon afterwards, you should consider either lack or excess of minerals in the soil.

Before you panic, we’re here to tell you that there’s a solution to that.

Below you’ll read several methods for removing the excess nutrients and providing your plants with healthy soil again.

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Safe Gardening: How To Prevent Food-Borne Diseases

 

Why eating straight from the garden may not be such a good idea

Are we not used to picking fresh tomatoes from the garden and eating them on the spot? How many of us who grew on a farm or had a garden, experienced this?

We may all be fine now, but the facts are – there are food-borne illnesses and bacteria, which may be harmful to our health. This is especially true for children, whose immune system is still weak.

So, how do we make sure our families are safe when eating fresh produce straight from the garden?

Below you’ll learn what to do and how to avoid contamination. After all the safety of your family should be your top priority.

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(Video) How To Grow Onions Endlessly With This Little Trick

 

With this smart trick you can purchase onions once and grow them over and over again

Here’s a great idea we are sure gardeners and onion lovers would absolutely love.

You need to purchase onions only once, but once you pluck them out there’s something you need to do, which will ensure you can regrow them again.

We believe this is an amazing and super handy trick for gardeners who don’t want to waste too much material, but rather reuse it whenever possible.

According to the author of the video, people who tried this trick had regrown onions 8 times already. From one single purchase.

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Grow Garlic: How To Grow This Wonderful Plant

 

Here’s a short yet comprehensive guide to growing healthy garlic plants in your garden

Growing garlic can be so rewarding! This incredibly healthy plant can be grown quickly and easily, with just a little care from you.

And when the season ends, and it’s harvest time, the garlic plant will reward you with its clovers, fresh scent and liveliness.

So, if you’ve never had garlic in your garden, it’s time you try! It will cost you some effort, and a bit of garden space. Learn the factors you need to be aware of, how to take care of the garlic plant throughout the seasons.

Learn about fertilizing, harvesting, watering, spacing, planting and more.

A tiny article full to the brim with invaluable advice!

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(Video) Expert Advice Revealed: Here’s How To Grow Wonderful Cucumbers

 

Cucumbers are among the best plants to grow, but you need to know how to grow them properly

Tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers… These are among the most popular plants gardeners love to grow.

Yet, very often things go wrong and the harvest isn’t as good, some sickness spreads, or simply you’re not happy with the result.

There will always be reasons why a plant or two died or its produce is bad. This is exactly why you need to learn how to be nearly perfect when taking care of the cucumbers.

The following video features wonderful advice from a veteran gardener. You’ll hear invaluable advice in this short highly-compacted video.

What more can an aspiring gardener want but to learn from the best?

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Video – DIY Garden Hacks

 

Simple and quick – these will make your life so much easier

Have you ever wished for some miraculous garden hacks to ease your life in your garden?

Well, these hacks are actually not only practical, but completely doable and incredibly simple to implement.

They will save you a lot of time, effort, nerves and actually improve your plants’ lives along the way.

So, if you have always wanted to keep your plants watered, but didn’t have the time to build complicated irrigation system, you will find the solution to that one. If you wanted to protect your young seedlings from frost, but didn’t know how – that one will also be answered.

You will find many more tips and tricks and you will love each and every one of them.

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Kids’ Safety

 

Be extra cautious and educate your kids about farm / outdoors life

There are so many reasons why a farm or outdoors in general is a healthy place for our kids to grow up, but there are also reasons why most of us, as parents, need to be more attentive and careful when they are outside the safety of the house.

On a farm there are animals, machines, equipment, and sometimes even chemicals. You may not use pesticides and herbicides, but at least you may have to take care of your livestock’s health with certain medications.

All the above may not apply to a suburban garden, but the principle still applies.

All of these require that you are cautious and educate your kids on how to be careful themselves (if you’re not always there to keep an eye on them).

This article will give you some direction and guidance on what to do.

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Winter Prep Time for Your Soil

 

Without you preparing the soil for colder months, you may end up with a bad harvest next year

To avoid any future complication with regards to your next year’s harvest, you need to lay the ground (no pun intended) for your soil to prepare for the cold months, frost, sub-zero temperatures, etc.

If you’re at a loss about how much you have to do for your soil, the article below will show you the way. There are several handy tips which you can implement right away.

And mind you, don’t wait too long, you better start with the prep work now before winter knocks on your door.

And keep in mind, you may have to follow some counter-intuitive steps but you will learn why they better be done. You can handle the situation as long as you follow the experts’ advice below.

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Why Some People Compost Poop

 

The science behind ‘poop’ as fertilizer

Yes, it sounds gross, but poop contains much more nutrients in comparison to urine. That’s of course one side of the story. It’s true that poop contains microorganisms you wouldn’t want in your soil, but when you learn how to handle all that, you may just reconsider – maybe :).

It’s all about knowledge, and you can get plenty of it from the article below. It explains in detail why you can compost both human and pet poop. Gross or not, at least you know that your excretions don’t go on landfills where they may cause water contamination.

Now, we know this is not something most people will consider.
However, the article may present some good facts for you to use, making a more informed decision.

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