Monthly Archives: April 2016

Plant Care, Tomatoes

(Video) How To Build A Support For Any Type Of Tomato And Grow It Strong

 

Here is the type of support you need to offer the determinate or indeterminate tomato varieties

Any gardener who has ever grown tomatoes knows how much they need support in order to stay healthy and grow strong, literally. They can’t grow tall and stand upward on their own without proper support.

Otherwise, they will gradually lean towards the ground and will be prone to diseases and pests. You don’t want that of course.

On the other hand, even if you have provided support for your tomatoes, are you sure this is the right type for the variety you grow?

There are certain specifics you need to keep in mind. To learn about them, watch the video below.

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General Gardening Wisdom, Plant Care, Watering

(Video) How To Water Your Plants Without Wasting Water

 

Learn the mastery of taking over the gardening irrigation with little attention and no water wasting

Setting up a proper irrigation system or watering your plants at certain times of the day and week is a mastery. And we’re not talking about some magic tricks.

What we mean is that watering your garden can be very time-consuming, and when a gardener takes full control over that, in the proper way, there will be no time or water wasting.

Certain tricks can be applied in order to preserve as much of the water as you can, with little to no evaporation. You can save time by setting up specific ‘systems’, some of them DIY.

You can optimize your time in the garden without sacrificing the health of your plants and garden.

As you watch the video, you will be amazed how many things you can do. Your garden will not only be organic, but also sustainable.

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General Gardening Wisdom, Plant Care

Don’t Have Root Cellar? Here’s How To Store Food Without One

 

Food storage doesn’t necessarily need to be below the ground or on special room; there’s an even easier way to keep your produce fresh for long

If you haven’t heard of storage clamp now is the time to introduce it to you. Many gardeners already have a root cellar or some type of underground storage. And yet, other gardeners don’t have any of these.

So how can they (or you) store the produce they’ve harvested?

Yes, storage clamp is your savior. It does take space from your garden, but surely you have patches where nothing grows. This method has been used in Europe for generations, and requires only straw and soil.

For the details and how to make your own storage clamp, keep reading.

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Compost

Compost In The City: Here’s What This Start-Up Did

 

How these Austin, Texas cyclists have changed the way citizens think of trash

Instead of dumping 1.3 billion tons of food leftovers, a group of young people in Austin, Texas, decided to take things in their hands.

They united together with Compost Pedallers in order to start delivering the food waste to farmers instead of leaving it to rot in huge waste piles.

The general idea is that waste will be transported (by Compost Pedallers) to farmers, who are partners of the company. In this way, organic matter will no longer be wasted, but in fact used for composting purposes.

Such initiatives should be a lesson for other local communities too, and will hopefully inspire other people to take the matter in their hands.

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General Gardening Wisdom, Plant Care

Gardener’s To-Do List For Arpil

 

All the necessary tasks to be done, collected in one article

A gardener is never bored. He or she has always work to do no matter the season. April is no exception.

The article below will reveal what you need to do during April, for zones from 3 to 10, due to these zones covering nearly 99% of the US territories.

The weather may be quite unpredictable with its temperature fluctuations, but that’s also covered in the advice below.

Of course, simple precaution like plastic covers and other similar things, to protect the more fragile plants from unexpected frost, is more than welcome as part of your gardening in April.

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