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Conserving Water in Garden Watering Restrictions

May 12th, 2009 3 Comments

Drought prone regions often call for smarter garden watering practices as water is an extremely precious commodity. In fact, authorities in some places will even impose water restrictions thereby limiting water usage of households. If you live in a drought prone region, you have probably already mastered the art of gardening with water restrictions in [...]

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Greenhouse Gardening: Build Your Own Greenhouse

May 7th, 2009 No Comments

Greenhouse gardening is a scientific method of growing plants and you can build your own greenhouse in your garden. If the space permits and your garden plan can accommodate you should have a small greenhouse or a mini greenhouse in your own your garden. It is a great idea indeed. A small greenhouse in your [...]

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How Perlite Helps Solving Gardening Problems

April 28th, 2009 4 Comments

Perlite plays an important role as far as the gardening is concerned. Outdoor gardening is largely dependent on the good quality soil mix and perlite mixed with soil makes up an ideal combination. Perlite mixed with soil is generally considered as an essential ingredient for all types of houseplants. Use of perlite as a growing [...]

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How to Garden and Hunker Down for the Great Recession

April 26th, 2009 1 Comment

Entire world is passing through a phase of global economic recession and effects are clearly visible now. It seems that everyone has withdrawn himself in to its own shell and hunker down is the best policy in such tough times. Saving money is the new mantra of this age and expending spree has just passed [...]

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How to Apply Coppicing and Pollarding Gardening Techniques

April 22nd, 2009 No Comments

Gardening involves learning and practicing several techniques and methods. There are techniques being practiced over past many years and there are several innovations that help gardens improve significantly. Quite often conventional gardening techniques like coppicing and pollarding prove to be extremely advantageous whenever and wherever applied in good sense.
Coppicing and Pollarding: Understanding Basics
When a plant [...]

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MIT Robot Gardener: Future of Gardening

April 14th, 2009 No Comments

Mellissa Trujillo from the Associated Press (AP) says, “These gardeners would have green thumbs-if they had thumbs”. Mellissa reported in the “US news and World report” that undergraduate students of a class at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have successfully “created a set of robots that can water, harvest and pollinate cherry tomato plants”.
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How to Gain by Growing Native Plants: Medicinal Plants of Southern Africa

April 11th, 2009 No Comments

Native plants have their own beauty and benefits. Growing native plants in gardens is therefore not only adds to the elegance of the garden but also helps a gardener monetizing the efforts. Umpteen varieties of the native plants have their own value and importance for medicinal applications both for humans and animals. 
Growing native plants in [...]

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Slow -Release Fertilizers: Ideal Choice for Home and Vegetable Gardening

April 4th, 2009 1 Comment

Slow -release fertilizers have unique importance in home gardening and specifically the vegetable gardening. Slow-release fertilizers have been regarded as excellent alternatives to the soluble fertilizers. Gardeners have greater responsibility to preserve the environment and groundwater and therefore the use of slow-release fertilizers have become more pertinent.
Advantages of Using Slow -Release Fertilizers
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Top Ten Tips for Minimum Till-Gardening

March 26th, 2009 No Comments

Minimum till-gardening generally involves application of standardized procedures. Among the gardeners this process is also known as “conservation-tillage”. In vegetable gardening the minimum till-gardening is considered as one of the ideal processes for transplanting.
The standard procedure for minimum till-gardening or almost no-till-gardening could be a little cumbersome for some gardeners. Here is an alternative approach [...]

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Soil Tilling and Fall Ploughing: How and When to Do

March 22nd, 2009 No Comments

What is the best time for ploughing or tilling the soil? Should you take up this activity in fall or spring?
I am pretty much sure that such questions must have come to your mind during your gardening experiences through all these years. Working with the soil of your garden is extremely important and you must [...]

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