Gardening can be a lot of fun when experimenting, often with the less obvious.
When we talk about garbage most organic gardeners straight away think of composting.
While this is a perfectly viable method of using household garbage, there is another way you can turn it into something productive.
Garbage can often be turned into much more than to “waste” it.
In the following article you will learn what else you can do with it and why it is useful for your garden (and your kids too).
There are a few tricks you can implement and test.
You will learn what factors to be aware of before you start, and finally how to get the best results.
Let us know if you have “mastered” the skill of Garbage gardening.
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Learn how herbs can add to your Christmas holidays decoration
While we’re still enjoying the warm (and hot) summer days, there are some things that you may want to begin preparing for the winter holidays. And we’re not talking about conserving food for the winter, but about decorations.
There are ways to make amazing, beautiful and fragrant rich decorations using some of your organic gardens’ plants. But you need to start preparing now, before you lose those plants to the cold seasons.
You can have an eco-friendly and sustainable decoration without the need to rely on plastic items that anyway add more to the world-wide garbage problem.
As you read through the article, you can plan ahead what plants you have and how to put them to good use for the Christmas holidays.
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Useful tricks for expanding your organic garden vertically
We often grow up (no pun intended) used to having horizontal gardens, and that’s how we lay our seeds and produce.
Everything grows on the ground, and only a few plants can be supported for vertical growth. Yet, all of these plants are growing from the same horizontal ground area.
In the following article you will learn how to add more ‘ground’ to your garden. You will grow more produce, as you will not be limited only to the patch of land you have. And you don’t have to grow only herbs! The possibilities are definitely more than you think.
After you read the article, you can experiment on your own with those given tips. We would love to hear back from you and what you have learned.
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With the end of the season approaching, it’s time to preserve the tomatoes, and here is how
Preserving your summer fruits and vegetables can be both a pleasant and joyful experience, but it can also take quite some time.
When it comes to tomatoes, these soft fruits often need to be consumed or cooked quickly, or preserved for later use. In this article, you will learn some very easy and quick methods of preserving your organic tomatoes and keeping them super tasty for winter consumption.
These methods are often used for other vegetables and garden produce as well, yet here you’ll get a glimpse of the best approaches when preserving tomatoes. It won’t take you more than a day (depending on how many tomatoes you have) to complete each process.
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These pests and diseases will often damage your peppers, learn how to fight them
Like most vegetables and fruits, your peppers are not immune against the “attention” from a wide range of insects and pests.
Don’t despair though. Find out which are the most common pests and diseases are and how to eradicate them before it is to late.
With most pests and insects, speedy action can help save your crop. This requires you to be vigilant and to keep a close watch on your growing plants.
Identify any potential issues quickly and take action before it spreads.
Since your organic garden isn’t treated with pesticides and insecticides, you should be expecting all these little inhabitants among your plants. There are very easy and simple (and perfectly organic) methods of removing them. Just read on.
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There is still enough time for you to plant several more vegetables in your garden before the season changes.
You will need to do this before the fall comes. Some of these vegetables will be ready to be harvested even during the early winter, and for some others you will have to wait till spring.
These are easy to plant and don’t take much time and care. Few gardeners are very active during the cooler months. Take this into account when you plan ahead. Gardening is something you want to enjoy and a good balance between braving the elements and doing what you are passionate about, is needed.
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These root plants can grow in virtually any conditions – from rich to poor soil
If you have never thought of growing sweet potatoes, now is the perfect time.
In the following article you will learn which the perfect conditions are and how to harvest your sweet potatoes. You will learn how to better care for them and what practices to avoid if you want them to grow healthy.
You will learn how to plant them and which problems you may encounter, and of course, how to handle them well. You will also learn how to store them after the harvest, so they can remain fresh for months.
Let us know if you grow your own sweet potatoes and what you found, that work for you.
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You don’t have to wait more than a month to have these greens ready on your table
All gardeners are used to waiting for weeks and sometimes months for their seeds to grow to edible plants.
While it takes a lot of patience and perseverance, nature has given us several greens to grow so quickly that within a month they are ready to be enjoyed. You can still wait for your other plants, but in the meantime, enjoy a healthy green salad in no more than 30 days with these “gems”.
From this article you will learn which greens are fast growing, how quickly each of them grows, and even how to have more of the same plant after the first harvest.
Besides, these greens are perfect for the cooler weather after the peak of summer.
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Read about this secret method of keeping the smell and taste of your herbs
You may have learned many ways of keeping your herbs’ flavor and smell for winter storing, but there’s a little more to it. There is a less known method (but still an easy one) which you can very easily apply before the rainy days begin.
Read further and learn how to apply this easy technique. Anyone should be able to do it, and it takes very little time to set up. It doesn’t require any special action on your part. Every herb may take a little more (or less) time than the others, but essentially the technique is applicable to all types of herbs.
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Growing mushrooms in your own home can be surprisingly easy – here is how
Have you ever wondered if you could grow mushrooms in your garden, or in your home? There are hardly any organic gardeners who have mushrooms in their gardens, unless they live in the far north, where mushrooms grow on their own.
It is actually very easy to grow certain types of mushrooms. Some can be planted in your garden, some need to be planted in a pot. You will learn all the details of how and where in the following article. Mushrooms grow very quickly and now is the perfect time to plant some and have them fully grown in several weeks.
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