Category: Gardening How-To

Gardening How-to Tips and Tricks to Help You Create a Beautiful Garden.

Tomato Seeds Tips for Planting

The following sowing and transplanting methods are available to the amateur gardener who wants to grow tomatoes outside without the use of a greenhouse.

Germinate Seeds Faster

Here are nine clever tips for germinating seeds faster than you thought possible: The faster your garden seeds germinate, the sooner you’ll have plants!

Handmade Garden Stepping Stones

Stepping stones are a functional way to dress-up your lawn or garden and can be made into fun craft activity for the family to make for your home or as a gift idea.

Use The Garden for Quality Family Time

Today’s hectic lifestyles leave families little time to spend together; however, gardening offers a perfect opportunity for a family to share and learn together.

A Chocolate Lovers Garden

For those who crave chocolate and can’t get enough can now savor the sweetness without gaining a pound or feeling guilty. Plant a chocolate lover’s garden!

Balcony Tips: How to Easily Create an Above Ground Garden

Living in a condo or apartment shouldn’t prevent you from enjoying of the fresh tastes or heavenly scents of Spring and Summer. Even with the smallest of balconies, you can create a garden that suits your style – 25 floors high.

Growing Aloes

Aloes are easy going succulent plants that need very little maintenance. When growing your aloes, it is good to know what the aloe habitat of that aloe species is and try to imitate that as much as possible.

Propagate Plants Asexually

You can take great pleasure in knowing you had a hand in a beautiful plant from start to finish. Plant propagation can be done either sexually or asexually.

What Makes Up Garden Soil and What Kind Do I Have

Have you ever wondered why one plant will do great in one area, but that same variety dies in another area when it’s getting the same amount of sunlight and water? How do I know if the soil I am planting in is what I should be planting in?

Root Succulent Plants

Succulents are perfect plants for dry gardens and are easy to root and grow. Once you learn how easy it is to propagate succulent plants, it’s a great way to expand your plant collection – and it’s free!

Composting

Composting is easy. You don’t need any special knowledge or equipment, and it takes only a little extra effort to collect your wastes and establish an active compost pile. Once you’ve got it going, it just about takes care of itself.