Buying Plants: How To Order & Buy Plants Online
Written by bstanley in garden plants, home gardening tips
Knowing how to buy plants online can certainly help both beginners and seasoned gardeners choose the best and cultivate plants of their choice in their garden. Moreover, one can save time in buying plants as your online plants will be just a click away. However, before buying plants online one should take heed of a few things:
Why Should I Be Buying Plants Online?
Online shopping is all the rage these days, but buying plants online… is that wise? A good reason to buy plants online is that one is offered a great selection of plants that one may not find in a local store. If you are looking for those rare plants that you have always wanted to grow but never known where to find them chances are you could order plants online. Plus, you can compare prices of different online plants, strike the best deal which is excellent when you want to hunker down for the recession and save some money. You can pick up quality plants and even find out growing conditions before paying for your online plants. Sometimes you may even find attractive discounts when you order plants online. Do all this while sitting comfortably in your living room and having them delivered to your doorstep.
Gardening For Kids: Tips For Gardening With Kids
Written by bstanley in Kids Gardening, home gardening tips
Gardening with kids can be both delightful and a wonderful way of educating children early in life about nature’s beauties. Not only will kids planting find this a wonderful activity, but kid gardening will also be a big step towards creating a youth garden.
Why Kid Gardening?
Why should you involve your kids with gardening in the first place? Kids enjoy playing with mud, playfully using a hose and watching things grow so gardening for kids can be a lot of fun. Further, if they are made a part of the gardening process they will surely enjoy it even more. As much as they should be introduced to kids planting, they should also be consulted about the design of the youth garden as they can come up with colorful and innovative ideas. As you help in gardening for kids, watch their inquisitive minds come up with questions that can only make them better future gardeners.
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Moss Garden: Growing Your Own Moss Garden And Lawns
Written by bstanley in Uncategorized, garden method, lawn care, organic gardening
A moss garden is not only easy to maintain but if the Japanese are to be believed, growing moss led to a calm and peaceful state of mind. There are yellow, green, brown and even white varieties of mosses. While cushion mosses provide a cushioning effect to moss lawns, rock cap plant mosses covering the rock surface give it a rich green hue. There are even some plants that behave like mosses even though they are liverworts or hornworts.
What Are Plant Mosses?
Plant mosses, thought to have evolved from primitive vascular plants are very simple plants that lack conventional roots, stems and leaves. Usually hardy plants, mosses grow vertically, not just in moss gardens but almost everywhere except under the sea. These plant mosses are generally of little use to humans or animals but this type of moss gardening is undertaken because of the serenity and meditative calm they spread. Click here to read more …
Growing any plant from their seeds is exciting for a gardener and if you know the right technique you can grow watercress from seeds just as well as cauliflowers. Growing cauliflower is easy, provided a few steps are followed carefully. This member of the cabbage family is most difficult to cultivate but do not despair as cauliflower is widely grown with its inflorescence providing such a tasty component of our meals.
Preparing The Soil For Planting Cauliflower
Cauliflower seeds require a rich, deep and fertile soil. Months before planting vegetable cauliflower, the soil should be dug up and organic compost or manure should be added. The soil should be well drained with an ideal pH between 6.0-6.8. Lime should be added if necessary. Click here to read more …
Growing Watercress From Watercress Seeds
Written by bstanley in Herb gardening, herbs
Growing watercress can be both easy and beneficial as this perennial has the healthy component lutein that helps prevent coronary artery diseases and heart attacks. Moreover, watercress has many culinary and decorative uses.
How to Grow Watercress In Water
Contrary to popular opinion, one does not need a flowing stream for growing watercress and watercress lettuce can be grown if you want to conserve water. It can be easily grown indoors a few weeks before the last frost, by placing the watercress seeds on a moist paper towel that has been previously soaked in water and now placed in a shallow bowl, with about a quarter inch of standing water. An easier method of germinating watercress seeds is to use stem cuttings and placing them in a bucket of water or a black polythene bag. To grow watercress in this way, the water should be changed everyday as stagnant water spells death for the watercress seeds. The seeds germinate 7-10 days later.
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How To Grow Basil Easily and Quickly
Written by bstanley in Herb gardening, herbs
Growing basil is a good way to get started for novice gardeners using seeds, seedlings or cuttings from basil plants. Basil is also a great medicinal herb for those interested in creating a medicinal herb garden.
Right Weather And Soil For Growing Basil
Basil plants, members of the mint family require 6-8 hours of sunlight daily. They can be grown outdoors once the daytime temperatures are in the 70s°F and night temperatures are above 50°F. While planting basil one should remember it is sensitive to frost and hence it should be sown in late March, after all danger of frost has passed. Growing basil indoors can happen at any time of the year, provided the basil plants receive adequate natural or artificial light.
While a clean green garden might look neat and tidy to you, a color garden with some home garden design will add more life and spark to it. A perennial garden would bring versatility and color in the garden. These garden design tips may be used to improve your home.
Why Have A Perennial Garden?
A perennial garden may prove to be very beneficial to you especially when compared to annuals. Here are some of the reasons why you should consider using perennials to color your garden. Click here to read more …
Growing squash is possible and easy at any time of the year. However, growing zucchini (which is one of the fast growing summer squash vegetables) requires vegetable planting following a few specifications.
Zucchini Squash Growing In Summer
Summer is a good time for planting zucchini as zucchini squash grows best in warm soil. When the soil temperature reaches 60°F (or 16°C) the seeds should be sown. This vegetable planting requires full sunlight and an airy environment. A second round of planting squash in mid-summer will ensure a stock lasting till fall. The plants are harvested within 45-60 days while they are still immature and tender.