Find out how to grow your own potatoes even with hardly any space available
Potatoes are popular in most households and are used in a variety of delicious dishes.
Growing them is quite a lot of fun and something most families can do.
“Yes, but I live in an apartment with a tiny balcony”. No problem, we have you covered!
Watch this short videoto find out how you too can grow your very own potatoes.
You will also learn how to prepare the soil before planting your new potatoes, why earthworms are actually good for the soil.
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Exposure to ideas is important, especially for children. What will they gain being exposed to gardening?
Not all exposure is good for children, but learning life skills, how to communicate and interact with others, etc. are important aspects to “expose” kids to.
Many people follow a career after some form of “exposure” to the specific field, which generally lead to a passion being developed.
Not exposing people (and kids) to ideas and concepts will lead to a poorer, more one dimensional society.
The question is, with so much to “expose” kids to, should a gardening program be part of it?
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This is how you can grow more vegetables with these beautiful ideas
Have you ever had that desire to have an awe-inspiring organic garden? You may have wondered how to achieve that, but because of your limited space you never dared to do anything risky. Well, here is the solution to that problem.
You will read about 9 amazing, easy and beautiful ways of giving a lively and refreshing look to your garden. You will also be able to grow more vegetables in this way. And you will learn some alternative methods of growing your food that will challenge every gardener’s strict rules and beliefs.
Your garden doesn’t have to be just another by-the-book vegetable patch. Add more life and color to it!
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Learn why you’ll benefit from a rain garden and how to make one
Not only that, but it can be useful to other creatures and wildlife in your local area. You will find a rain garden incredibly inspiring and beautiful if you carefully plan to set it up the right way.
In the following article you will learn the main steps and where to start. You will get to know how a rain garden works and why it’s beneficial to have one. You will learn that it’s a self-sustained system and can be a wonderful addition to any permaculture and organic garden.
It requires some preparation and work, but the result will surprise you in a pleasant way. It is a really rewarding project to complete.
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Learn why permaculture is better than traditional gardening
Have you ever heard of permaculture before? Have you ever wondered what it actually means and how that affects you as an organic gardener?
Well, facts are that permaculture is far better and many times more sustainable than any traditional gardening. If this is the first time you hear about this concept, you will be amazed at what a balanced system it is.
Having read this article motivates you to change from a more traditional approach and to employ these techniques and principles. You will learn why traditional gardening doesn’t work in tandem with nature and quite often against it.
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Find out how to avoid these common mistakes and grow great tomatoes
Many gardeners had experienced those moments when they pick a tomato only to see the cat-face at the bottom. Or they pick the tomato and the bottom got rotten is rotten. Why does this happen, what am I doing wrong?
Unfortunately, most of these are the result of bad gardening and care. Some people call them these the 7 deadly sins of tomato growing.
In this article you’ll read what the causes and solutions are. You’ll also get a bonus tip. Part of being a gardener means you will always learn something new about your garden. Find out how you too can grow awesome tomatoes …
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Find out what Organic Gardeners should plant in late summer
It is amazing how plants, vegetables and some fruits can continue to grow and give fruit before the first serious signs of cold weather and frost. Even more surprising is how long the list is, we can tap into.
Your entire garden can be seeded with these plants and you will have a huge produce to store during the winter colds. Well, there’s a bit of garden work to be done, but it is rewarding in the end.
Learn about all these prerequisite steps and then get pen and paper and write down the list of the plants you can grow this fall (and every other fall, of course).
Remember to share this with those that you know would like to know this too.
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While it may seem confusing at first, lasagna gardening can be super helpful for both your soil and your plants. You will go right behind the curtains and learn how the lasagna gardening work. You will go through the 5 steps of preparing and “cooking” your lasagna garden and breathe new life to your plants. You will also learn when your garden is ready for planting.
As making real lasagna takes some time and sweating over it, so is it with your garden. Prepare for some hard work, but be rewarded many times over as you revive your soil. You’ll see a huge boost in your plants’ growth as a result.
As the name suggests, lasagna gardening or sometimes called sheet mulching is similar in concept to the cartoons “Garfield” favorite food, the lasagna. Like the food lasagna, this form of gardening follows the concept of layering different materials in the soil to make a perfect planting mix for our garden. By using carbon and nitrogen rich materials that are layered alternately one after the other, we can be sure that once our layered materials have broken down, then, the bests planting material that can be used in growing our garden will be achieved. ……….
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Learn how this organic farmer handles her old maturing kale
As we enter the late summer season in August, your organic kale will begin to mature and have a hard time protecting itself against pests. This may let you down and you may think it’s time to say goodbye to this year’s fresh kale produce, but rest assured – there’s a handy way out of this.
Read further to learn a quick useful method of taking care of your old kale and how to have fresh produce by the end of September. No, it’s not time for farewell! This secret trick shared by an experienced organic farmer will bring joy to kale lovers.
Is your kale patch looking like a breeding ground for Japanese beetles? A gardening friend was looking for organic solutions to this problem. I surprised him with my response: mow it down. Not the most assertive kind of pest management, but sometimes it does not make sense to fight. Come August, it might just be time to let go of your kale patch……….
By now though, the plant is mature and losing its ability to fend off the pests. With a weakened over-the-hill plant, the pests are able to dominate with an infestation. As for your kale, it was good while it lasted. ………
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