Category Archives: Plant Care

Plant Care, Tomatoes

(Video) Why Pruning Is The Best Treatment For Your Tomatoes

 

Learn how proper pruning can kickstart your tomatoes and promote growth

Tomatoes will always be one of the most widely loved plants. We add tomatoes in almost anything – from salads to pizzas.

What would a gardener do to make sure his tomato plants are healthy, grow well and don’t suffer any of the common diseases? Many things, but not many gardeners know all the tricks and techniques.

So, how can you make sure your tomato plants produce more fruits, ensure earlier (and plentiful) harvest and after all, stay healthy? The answer is simple – pruning.

But not just pruning per se. There are techniques you need to know, and practices to follow in order to be sure that you’re pruning the proper way.

The video below will you give you all the answers you need!

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General Gardening Wisdom, Plant Care

(Video) Expert Advice Revealed: Here’s How To Grow Wonderful Cucumbers

 

Cucumbers are among the best plants to grow, but you need to know how to grow them properly

Tomatoes, peppers, and cucumbers… These are among the most popular plants gardeners love to grow.

Yet, very often things go wrong and the harvest isn’t as good, some sickness spreads, or simply you’re not happy with the result.

There will always be reasons why a plant or two died or its produce is bad. This is exactly why you need to learn how to be nearly perfect when taking care of the cucumbers.

The following video features wonderful advice from a veteran gardener. You’ll hear invaluable advice in this short highly-compacted video.

What more can an aspiring gardener want but to learn from the best?

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Plant Care, Vertical Gardens

(Video) Smart Tips For Growing Cucumbers Vertically

 

You’ll be surprised how many ways you can employ to grow cucumbers vertically

Cucumbers take a lot of space and usually love all the air and sunshine they can get. All of this means, it’s best to make sure the plant grows in a vertical fashion.

We all think of trellises, but it turns out that’s definitely not the only method you can use. There are in fact several more which are incredibly smart and even beneficial to nearby plants.

You can try and test them, and then you can go ahead and come up with your own ideas for vertical growth. Your cucumbers will thank you! They’ll produce more; they will be green all over; and will save you lots of space.

And we all know how important garden space is!

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Container Gardening, Plant Care

(Video) Grow Garlic In Containers: It’s Super Easy And Quick

 

Skip planting garlic in the garden to avoid pests and illnesses – grow it in containers instead

Garlic is a slow growing plant, but can be planted super quickly. This is exactly why no gardener should miss the opportunity to grow his or her own garlic.

It turns out, growing garlic in containers is actually more beneficial for you and for the plant itself. The reason is that you make sure it’s out of pests’ reach, and it’s less prone to illnesses.

From the following video you’ll learn how to take care of it, and how to plant it correctly. Also, as the leaves start to grow, you’ll learn what to do with them, and also how to treat the plant once it starts to blossom. All of this, covered in just a few minutes.

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Compost, Organic Gardening, Plant Care

What Is A Cover Crop And Why You Should Care

 

Build healthier soil using an intuitive and natural way

Using cover crops isn’t exactly a common practice. This is why it’s in fact beneficial to talk about it. As you read the article below you will realize it’s a very useful method for, literally, building soil.

This is especially true if you need to invigorate the soil and enrich it with nutrients.

Unfortunately it’s not a method used in the modern agriculture industry, but among small farmers and gardeners, it’s a hit!

Further on, you’ll read about the origin of this method, also learn about the method itself and which are the steps to implement this practice in your gardening plans.

Also, you’ll learn how to take care of this ‘living mulch’, as it’s called.

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Container Gardening, Organic Gardening, Plant Care

(Video) Grow Ginger? It’s That Easy!

 

If you knew how easy it was, you would always keep a plant or two growing at home

We’re used to buy ginger at health stores, considering it an exotic and mystical plant that grows in the southern parts of Asia.

As a matter of fact, you can re-grow a ginger root (even if it’s dried) and grow an entire plant from it. You should either live in a southern state, or keep it at home providing it with lots of sunlight.

Other than that, your care for the ginger plant shouldn’t be much different from any other plant from your garden or home.

The video explains a lot about how to transplant it, how to make sure it gets its nutrition, and so on. It also reveals a few methods of starting your own ginger plant.

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Compost, Organic Gardening, Plant Care

(Video) Biochar: The Best Organic Food For Your Soil

 

Why praise biochar so much? Read further to learn about the amazing benefits

Biochar, as the name implies, is an organic by-product from burning organic garden matter. It looks like charcoal but it shouldn’t be confused with it.

Biochar has a lot more benefits (some truly astonishing ones) compared to charcoal and other similar soil fertilizers. Once you learn how beneficial biochar is, you may even discontinue your use of other fertilizers.

Biochar is very potent and boosts the soil’s health not only with nutrients. In fact, biochar is of immense help to all beneficial insects and mostly to earth worms. You’ll learn why, and we’re sure it’s something you may not have known before.

Go ahead and watch the video. Then try this in your garden and observe the changes!

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Compost, Container Gardening, Plant Care

Video – DIY Biodegradable Pots

 

Ditch the heavy pots and reuse biodegradable material as plant pots

If you’re not only an organic gardener, but also a conscious environmentalist you probably also love everything that has a sustainable touch to it.

If the answer is yes, then you will totally love the ideas presented in the following video. You will learn three amazing, easy and yet entirely sustainable ways of reusing biodegradable matter.

You will use them to grow your seeds in, and then you can literally plant both the seedling and the pot in the soil.

We promise you – it will degrade over time and you will have reused material which otherwise may have find its way either in the trash or in your compost bin. Why not turn these into planting pots?

Well, watch the video to learn how and we’re sure you will love this so much that you will soon forget about the heavy ceramic or terracotta pots.

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General Gardening Wisdom, Plant Care, Watering

Video – DIY Garden Hacks

 

Simple and quick – these will make your life so much easier

Have you ever wished for some miraculous garden hacks to ease your life in your garden?

Well, these hacks are actually not only practical, but completely doable and incredibly simple to implement.

They will save you a lot of time, effort, nerves and actually improve your plants’ lives along the way.

So, if you have always wanted to keep your plants watered, but didn’t have the time to build complicated irrigation system, you will find the solution to that one. If you wanted to protect your young seedlings from frost, but didn’t know how – that one will also be answered.

You will find many more tips and tricks and you will love each and every one of them.

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Organic Gardening, Plant Care

Lettuce Seeds – How To Save Your Own

 

Don’t buy lettuce seeds each and every year. Save them yourself

Since lettuce seeds don’t cross-pollinate this means that the mother plant’s seeds will produce the same lettuce sort every year you plant it.

So, why not collect your own seeds if you already grow lettuce in your garden? It’s much more efficient and you won’t have to buy new seeds every time you want to grow lettuce.

Read further to learn how to collect and dry the seeds, and how to make sure they stay healthy till next year when you plant them. It takes care and attention but your efforts will be rewarded.

Below are all the steps  you need to follow in the right order.

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