Category Archives: General Gardening Wisdom

General Gardening Wisdom, Plant Care

Are You Ready For Winter – What Veggies To Plant Now

 

 

Winter months is not “garden-free” months – find out what you could do

Winter doesn’t mean we pack all our garden gear and tools in the shed and wait for summer. As a gardener you should know what to grow in every season and plan accordingly.

The following article provides a guide and informs about what we can do during the winter months. Most of these vegetables and plants don’t mind the cold, others won’t even realize it’s winter out there, until they break the soil surface. But then, it’s time for you to snip them off.

The possibilities are nearly endless.  Do the following: Learn, Implement (Take Action) and Have Fun ….

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General Gardening Wisdom, Plant Care

September Gardening: To-Do list

 

Plants and flowers you can plant during September

Every gardener needs to know which plant, vegetable of fruit grows when. You should also know when to plant it, what the ideal climate is, environment, etc. All plants are unique and it is important to understand these differences if we want to be “successful” as gardeners.

While it may seem overwhelming at times, it’s always a good practice to keep a list of plants and all the details concerning them.  It is a bit like having a cake recipe for those cakes we don’t bake to often, we need something to refer back to.

The article below will unveil everything you need to know about September plants, which they are, in what type of soil they thrive, and a few tips on how to best treat and care for them.

While the article isn’t extensive and long, it gives a solid foundation and valuable information, to get you started.

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General Gardening Wisdom, Plant Care

Handy Tips to Increase Your Harvest

 

Simple steps will produce a higher yield with succession planting

Gardening is often considered to be a pretty straightforward process, where a gardener sows the seeds and then they grow into nice juicy fruits and vegetables.

While some beginner gardeners know that this is hardly the case, weathered gardeners know a lot depends on the gardener.
What and how much is produced is directly related to the experience level of the gardener.

The following tips will help you unlock your garden’s full potential resulting in your plants to produce a lot more.
You will learn how to use the wisdom of nature and the soil itself, at the hand of an experienced gardener.

And finally, you will learn how to take full advantage of the last warm days this year.

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General Gardening Wisdom, Organic Gardening, Plant Care

Why You Should Have Your Own Seed Bank

 

More sustainability and less dependence of the Big Agriculture Means We Can Look Better After Ourselves

Farmers and gardeners each year purchase seeds from big companies and corporations so they can plant some fruits and vegetables in their gardens or farms. This doesn’t have to be the case, though.

For centuries, our ancestors collected their own crop seeds and reused them the next year, or stored them (sometimes for several years).

In the following article you will learn why it’s highly advisable to keep your own seeds and reuse them for the next year. You will learn how to do that and how to best store them.

And finally and most importantly, you’ll also learn how to pick the best of your seeds and in doing so, increase the overall quality of your crop.

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Compost, General Gardening Wisdom, Organic Gardening

Garbage Gardening – Enjoy Having Fun With Leftovers

 

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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General Gardening Wisdom, Herbs

Herbs as Eco-Friendly Christmas Decoration

 

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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General Gardening Wisdom, Tomatoes

2 Quick Tips for Preserving Your Tomatoes

 

 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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General Gardening Wisdom, Organic Gardening

7 Vegetables to Plant Before the Fall Season

 

What to plant before the first snow falls

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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General Gardening Wisdom, Organic Gardening, Plant Care

Sweet Potato: Here is How to Grow and Harvest It

 

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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General Gardening Wisdom, Organic Gardening

Veggies to Grow Within 30 days

 

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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