Re-Growing Celery. Did you know that you can grow another complete celery stalk from the bottom piece that you cut off and throw away?
This is new to me, too, but I have been doing it this year and it works! I use a lot of celery when cooking and I hope to save quite a bit by re-growing it throughout the spring and summer. When I bring the celery home, I cut the end off first then put the rest into the refrigerator. Gardening 101: My Top 12 Easy Vegetables To Grow From Seed. First and foremost, I just want to remind you that this is all my opinion, based on my own experience, reading, and learning.
When it comes to gardening, there is no one be-all-end-all way to do anything. So please take what I suggest here and apply it to your own needs. Try it, use what works, and adapt as necessary. And please share your thoughts and experiences with me, too – we’re all learning and growing. In Situ vs. In situ means “in the place,” and refers to seeds you plant directly in the ground; rather than seeds that you germinate in flats and then transplant – ie, ex situ.
Starting Your First Vegetable Garden. By Neil Moran You're aware of the health benefits of eating fresh vegetables, you have the space for a small garden, but just don't know where to start?
Look no further. Here's all you need to know to put fresh, crisp vegetables on your dinner table. First, think small. Don't bite off more than you can chew, or hoe. Choose a location that receives as much sun as possible throughout the day. 9 Steps To Starting A Survival Garden. In a time of economic uncertainty and rising food prices, it it always a good idea to have a garden to provide extra food for you and your family.
Besides providing a source of food in an emergency, a garden is also a great source of wonderful vegetables which are MUCH healthier to eat than most of the food you can get at the supermarket. Maximize Savings in a Small Garden by Selecting Profitable Plants. Create a Garden Journal - Guest Post. Today's guest post comes from Karen at Chicken Sense.
Karen blogs about gardening, cooking, sewing, and living in the country. Below she shares some resources to get you started on creating a garden journal. Garbage Gardening. Down below this jungle of tomato and snap pea plants lies layers of organic waste and lots of composting worms busily converting the materials into rich vermicompost.
As I mentioned a while back (and written about recently on Red Worm Composting), I’m involved in a pretty sizable restaurant food waste composting project this year. In a nutshell, I am receiving hundreds of pounds (per week) of fruit and vegetable waste from a very popular local restaurant and have been composting these materials on my property. Micro Forest Garden – installation. Following on from designing a microforest garden recently, it was time to realise the design!
Harris led the charge, helped by forest garden interns Minoru and Kelly, as well as all the students of the forest garden design course. This micro forest garden was to be established on a very compacted piece of ground that had formerly been a road. Yikes. As with many plantings on this crazy patch of land of ours (read: everywhere except the creekflat), it was time to get out the crowbar to dig the holes… but it all turned out splendidly! Conceptual group design for the microforest garden, done during the course by students. 9 Steps To Starting A Survival Garden.
Survival Gardening. Survival gardening can provide fresh food for you and your family in the aftermath of a disaster.
Disasters can occur at anytime and anywhere, and take many forms. Not all disasters are dramatic and natural. Gutter Gardens Grow Produce Without Taking Up Space. 7 Habits of Successful Gardeners. Originally published January 2009 Or is it the Seven Pillars of Horticultural Wisdom?
As everyone's resolutions remind us, we love attaching a number to advice, a number smaller than the one I regard as most realistic: The Twenty Three Thousand Four Hundred and Sixty-Two Things It's Important to Remember Before Getting Out of Bed. Extreme Urban Gardening: Straw Bale Gardens. Here’s a very simple technique for gardening in tight spots and in places with no/terrible soil (from the arctic circle to the desert to an asphalt jungle).
It’s also a great way to garden if you have limited mobility (in a wheel chair). What is Straw Bale Gardening? You simply plant your garden in straw bales. Here’s an example of what a straw bale garden looks like (via author/expert Joel Karsten — he’s got a good book on the topic and he teaches it in seminars) As you can see, the basic technique is actually quite simple. 27 Medicinal Plants Worth Your Garden Space.
Playful as kids are, accidents happen. And the accident that befallen me at 7 years old was the feeling of the hot exhaust pipe of a motorcycle kissing the skin of my leg. Grandma was around and saw it. Immediately, she took out a knife and slice the thick lower part of the aloe vera plant by the garden and rubbed the exposed end on the burn. Looking back, I realized that it was important to have medicinal plants around the house cause you never know when you might need them. So here are a list of plants that have the highest medicinal value compared to the other million species around the world worth planting around the house. Aloe Vera The aloe vera grows only under the sun with well drained dry or moist soil. Square Foot Gardening 101. Update! Check out our new Square Foot Gardening Infographic for even more tips, diagrams, a plant list and much more. I recently stumbled upon a book (All New Square Foot Gardening: Grow More in Less Space! Garbage Gardening.
8 Perennial Vegetables For The Lazy Gardener. Over the course of a plant's life cycle, it germinates, grows, flowers, fruits, seeds, and then consequently dies leaving behind seeds for the next generation of plants. There are three varieties of plant life cycles, annual, biennial, and perennial. Annuals complete their life cycle within a single growing season. Biennials complete their life cycle within two growing seasons. And perennials live for more than two years, repeating the grow to seed process anew every season until the plant dies. The majority of vegetables people plant in gardens - lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbage, peppers, carrots, beans, etc. - are annuals. How to Grow The Top 10 Most Nutritious Vegetables in Your Garden. By Colleen Vanderlinden Treehugger A perfectly ripe, juicy tomato, still warm from the sun. Sweet carrots, pulled from the garden minutes (or even seconds!)
Before they’re eaten. Top Ten Reasons Everyone Should Plant a Fall Vegetable Garden – And the Time Is Now! by Patti O'Neal. This year we had a scorching June and many people are just beginning to see production on their tomatoes. So it may be hard to think about what you will eat in October and November when your tomatoes are gone, but now is the time to think about that. Colorado is well suited to fall gardening and winter harvest and it can be done successfully almost anywhere. If you’ve never tried it, here’s 10 reasons why you should. 5 Secrets to a ‘No-work’ Garden. It took over 20 years of gardening to realize that I didn’t have to work so hard to achieve a fruitful harvest. As the limitless energy of my youth gradually gave way to the physical realities of mid-life, the slow accretion of experience eventually led to an awareness that less work can result in greater crop yields. Inspired in part by Masanobu Fukuoka’s book, One Straw Revolution, my family experimented with gardening methods which could increase yields with less effort.
Fukuoka spent over three decades perfecting his so-called “do-nothing” technique: commonsense, sustainable practices that all but eliminate the use of pesticides, fertilizer, tillage, and perhaps most significantly, wasteful effort. A Taste of Gardening. How To Build A Vertical Aquaponic System. 15 most effective medicinal herbs that you can plant in your garden space. The medicines that we see today, including the heavy antibiotics and the normal syrups, never existed century ago.
However, people since inception have been taking a different form of medications for illness and other health problems. The power of herbal medicines cannot be overlooked at point time – prior to all the modern medicines, these herbal medicines even cured deadly diseases. Once again, pharmacy is going into the herbal era to explore and bring out the human health benefits. This is because of the ease of use and yes, the affordability and the power to heal almost every human health disorder.
10 Plants That Repel Garden Insect Pests. Why I Use Epsom Salt in the Garden. *Why I Use Epsom Salt in the Garden*By: LL4e14 June 2004. Ways To Create More Growing Space. By Cindy Naas The biggest challenge any urban gardener faces is that of finding enough room to grow everything. The Complete Guide to Sick Plants, pH and Pest troubles! Marijuana Garden Saver: AKA The Complete guide to Sick Plants,pH, and Pest troubles!
The 72 Plant Vertical Garden. This instructable will cover the details of the Vertical Garden built for my "Hydroponic, Automated, Networking, Climate Controlled Greenhouse Project". The vertical garden is a space saving way to grow up to 72 small plants (such as lettuce, spinach, strawberries and lots of different herbs) all with the plant health benefits of hydroponics.
How to Make Garden Hot Caps from Used Milk Jugs: 6 steps. More Creative Fence Ideas — J Peterson Garden Design. Your fence separates your garden from the street or your neighbor’s garden, and until recent years, they have been built with mostly function in mind. 9 Steps To Starting A Survival Garden. A Way to Garden — Organic gardening inspiration from Margaret Roach.
How to Turn a Pallet into a Garden. Good news and bad news. Gardening. Garden Buildings.