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General Gardening Wisdom, Plant Care

Unique Compaction Test Using The Awesome Carrot

 

Learn how your carrots can help you test your soil’s density

Amazingly your carrots (and many other plants) can say a lot about the home they’ve inhabited – the soil. What makes carrots unique in this regard is that they, being roots, provide the best way to read how well the soil is structured.

You’ll also learn to read the carrots’ roots since they give a lot of information about how well they’ve been positioned in the soil.

What’s most important is – how compact (dense) your soil is. This is one of the reasons why some plants don’t make it, and why others find it hard to grow. If the soil is too dense roots will have a hard time penetrating the soil for nutrients. Too lax and there’s little stability for the entire plant.

This is where carrots come to help. As you read the article you’ll learn how to read your carrots’ signals and improve the soil’s structure and density.

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General Gardening Wisdom, Plant Care

Your Garden Produce May Be Less Nutritious Than You Think

 

Learn why it’s crucial to start collecting heirloom seeds

If your veggies don’t come from heirloom seeds, the possibility of them having low level of nutrients is very high. In fact, the nutrient decline that is registered in the past decades, is often closely related not only to poor soil but also to the loss of heirloom seeds.

People keep buying new seeds and forget about last year’s harvest.

Heirlooms are a symbol of variety while in many cases, the newly introduced (and often labeled GMO) seeds are often the culprits when it comes to nutrient depletion.

This thought-provoking article will hopefully shed more light onto this problem.

We know you are already an organic gardener, but sometimes acknowledging the issue helps us see where we can improve.

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General Gardening Wisdom, Herbs, Plant Care

All You Need To Know About Drying Fruits And Vegetables

 

Learn the wisdom behind storing and preserving your summer harvest

When gardeners think about storing the harvest they usually think of canning or keeping it in a cool room. But how many times have you thought of actually drying the fruits and veggies you harvested?

That’s definitely a popular method, but it’s true that most of the time we prefer to keep the produce as fresh as possible for as long as possible. So, the idea of drying isn’t always that appealing.

Yet, in the following article you will learn all the benefits and uses of dried produce, the procedure and all requirements related to drying.

We’re certain that you will consider drying your fruits and veggies from now on.

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General Gardening Wisdom, Plant Care

(Video) How To Breed A New Sort Of Tomatoes

 

The art of cross-pollinating and breeding new tomatoes, aubergines, peppers and potatoes

Have you always wanted to create your own tomato or pepper species but never truly knew how? It’s indeed a tricky work and you need to be very gentle with your veggies and fruits flowers, so you don’t damage them.

You’ll learn why you need the stigma of the flower so you can cross-pollinate the plant.

Basically, the underlying mechanism is transferring pollen from one flower to another, thus crossing two sorts of the same plant.

With a little practice you can create your own sorts, and save the seeds as heirlooms, so you can keep growing these new sorts in the future.

It’s a great way of creating varieties, and yet keeping them GMO-free. Besides there’s nothing more precious than keeping your own heirloom seeds.

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General Gardening Wisdom

Gardener’s Virtues: Which Of These Do You Need To Cultivate

 

Here’s what makes a gardener at peace with himself, his garden, others and even with his enemies

While this article won’t teach you how to plant and grow cucumbers or how to make your soil healthier and more nutritious, it will teach you something beyond that.

Gardening isn’t only digging, planting and harvesting. It’s not only caring for the plants and then cooking the fruits or veggies. There’s so much more lying behind a true gardener that it’s worth peaking behind the invisible curtain.

These virtues, or skills, are the pillars of what true gardening is. You may be great at collecting heirloom seeds, but if you don’t share them or the knowledge with others, then what’s the purpose of collecting them?

Do you sometimes compare your produce with your neighbor’s? Do you boast about your plentiful harvest? Do you make fun of the neighbor’s low harvest or small fruits?

You see what we’re pointing at. These virtues will make you the most reliable, responsible and trustworthy gardener in your community!

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General Gardening Wisdom, Plant Care

(Video) The Best Way To Do Mulching For Your Garden

 

How to choose what type of mulch to use depending on whether your plants need acidic or alkaline soil

Plants are generally separated into acidic- and alkaline-loving. Essentially, trees love acidic soil, while fruit-bearing plants prefer alkaline. Since these two types of plants complement each other, they are usually the best companions.

What does this have to do with mulching, you may ask? Certain by-products from forests can act as the best mulching source for your garden.

And this is the least you can learn from the following video. You’ll learn what type of mulch to use, how to layer it and why you should layer it in this particular way.

The video will hopefully completely demystify mulching since it gives in-depth explanation about how mulching works and how it complements your soil and feeds your plants.

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General Gardening Wisdom, Organic Gardening

(Video) Keyhole Garden Beds: The Best Optimization Of Garden Space

 

If you haven’t tried shaping your garden paths to keyholes, it’s time you try

It’s possible you have never heard of keyhole garden beds. That doesn’t mean you couldn’t try, especially with the new season approaching.

You could experiment with the garden space you have and reshape it and give the keyhole garden beds a try.

It’s been said that it uses the garden space to the most optimal way, by saving as much space as possible.

In the video below you will learn why this is so and how you can access every inch of your garden from the keyhole-shaped path.

You will learn how to fortify the path’s inner walls, so they don’t collapse during rainy days.

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General Gardening Wisdom, Organic Gardening

December To-Do List For Enthusiastic Gardeners

 

It’s December and it’s time to make our to-do lists

Every month of the year requires that the gardener focuses on different plants, seeds, activities, etc. in their garden.

December should be the least active month, and to some extent it is. Yet, the earth doesn’t sleep and there will always be plants that can survive the winter and provide you with some food.

Not only that, but December’s to-do list also requires preparation for the following months and the responsible gardener knows all too well how important nature’s ‘deadlines’ are.

That’s why, this to-do list will keep you up-to-date and your plants and soil comfortable.

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General Gardening Wisdom, Plant Care

(Video) How To Properly Prune Grapes For A Healthy Plant

 

Learn the importance of proper pruning in order to increase the harvest and keep the plant growing

Grape vines should always be pruned, otherwise they grow so much in foliage that the fruits have no sunlight exposure.

If you don’t prune your grape vines properly, you expose your plant to disease and low harvest. After all, if you grow grapes you want to have the fruits when the season comes.

So, to make the plant produce healthy grapes, and help the fruits get enough sunlight, you will need to prune it properly.

If you’ve been struggling with that, you may now finally be relieved, because this video with show you all the important pruning methods you will need to learn.

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Compost, General Gardening Wisdom, Organic Gardening

Fungi And Bacteria: The Main Reason For Happy Plants

 

Few people know that without fungi in the soil, plants won’t ever grow

How well are you acquainted with the fact that bacteria and fungi are the main reason we have plants growing? Fungi are the reason why the plants have nutrients and grow happily ever after.

We’re used to thinking that fungi are the reason why plants die. While this is mostly true, we should note that there are good fungi, just like there are edible mushrooms. Mushrooms, fungi… all part of the same family.

Enter into the world of spores.

The article below reveals the (vital) importance of us keeping fungi and bacteria in the soil happy. You’ll learn how to keep them thriving (thus helping your plants). You’ll learn to tap into the enormous fungi potential to make them work hard for you.

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