I hope you’re already enjoying your Croton and Caladium plants. If not, give them a try and brighten up your plant stand indoors or add that needed color to your outdoor garden.
Category: Gardening How-To
Gardening How-to Tips and Tricks to Help You Create a Beautiful Garden.
Succulents are perfect plants for drought tolerant gardens or containers and are easy to root and grow. Learn how easy it is to propagate succulent plants, it’s a great way to expand your plant collection and it’s free!
Many tropical plants will grow with the right care and conditions in areas that normally would not permit them.
Plants of all kinds (including trees), herbs and roots have been used for centuries to draw money to a person or bring prosperity to a home.
Any suitable area can be used to house a no-dig grow bed as long as there is enough sun, access to organic material and clean water is available – you can even build a no-dig edible garden on top of flat concrete if that’s the only space you have available.
Every successful garden needs plants that attract the predators of pests – humans included:).
What’s the truth about companion planting? Myth, rumour and ‘old wives’ tales’ abound. But a clue can be found in India and adjacent lands where Ayurvedic gardening goes back many thousands of years – and it’s based on companion planting.
This method of vegetable gardening is what I prefer. As you might have guessed, it doesn’t involve digging. This method is particularly suited to older people or people with physical disabilities.
There are quite literally thousands of species of edible plants that can be grown, yet most people are only aware of the thirty or so species to be found in the grocers, and many of these will have been imported. In this section we will give you a small selection of little known edible plants.
If the idea of extending your growing season has sparked some interest in winter gardening, don’t forget that there are a number of crops well suited to winter gardening.
The vast majority of cats go crazy for the catnip. Moreover, they particularly enjoy fresh catnip. So, why not try growing your own? It is simple and your cat will be very grateful.
While commercial rooting hormone can be used there are organic homemade versions that work as well.
For anyone contemplating the switch to organic gardening, here are a few ingredients that should be in every gardener’s toolkit.