Jun
22
First Word in Companion Planting
June 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment
People are made for relationships, be it romantic or friendly; they thrive in the company of others. In the same way, relationships can be a burden. Many people have discovered the unfortunate truth that there is always that one person in the workplace, classroom, or sporting team with whom they cannot click. When a relationship is burdensome, it can leave both parties feeling as if they are wilting in the heat of the sun. Is it any surprise than, if the rest of the world functions in similar rhythms?
Jan
13
Home Vegetable Gardening: You Just Can’t Beat a Beet
January 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment
There are over a dozen varieties of these tasty vegetables, yet many home vegetable gardeners do not add them to their harvest. They are beets and they come in all shapes and sizes. You are sure to find something that you will find tasty and easy to grow.
Some like it hot, and members of the beet family are. not included. They prefer the soil to be in the seventy-five to eight-five degree Fahrenheit range (that's twenty-four to twenty-nine Celsius) for germination, but like the growing temperature in the sixty-five to seventy-five degrees Fahrenheit range. Beets also like the soil to have a pH range as near neutral as possible. It's best if you keep your soil in the 6.5 to 7.5 range. Use a simple pH soil tester, available from any local home or garden center for under five dollars to obtain an accurate reading, and then adjust accordingly.
Nov
25
Indoor Gardening and How it Started | ArticlesBase.com
November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Indoor gardening got its start in the Victorian Era with just two or three different plants. A couple of those plants would have probably been the palm and hibiscus and were probably purchased by those who could afford to do so. They would place them in their keeping rooms, parlors or sitting rooms, whereever they did their most entertaining. Soon after the Victorian Era people did not want to have live plants indoors and so indoor gardening went by the wayside.
Finally, in the 1970's indoor gardening was introduced again but the houseplants were not as big and consisted of foliage only plants such as ivies, ferns, and spider plants. Today we have a larger medley of plants to choose and they again include the flowering houseplants. Some of the more popular flowering plants are the orchid, African violet, begonia, gardenia, bougainvillea, and geranium. We have now brought in some lively colors but also some fragrant aromas as well.
Nov
18
Home Vegetable Gardening: Growing Basil
November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment
My favorite combination for basil is mixing sliced juicy beefsteak tomatoes with quarter inch thick mozzarella cheese then shredding the fresh basil overtop of the two and finally pouring some extra virgin olive oil on top to bring it all together. The basil really makes the entire dish “pop”.
Basil loves to grow in the heat and any cooler temperatures especially frost could reduce your basil to near nothing. Follow the steps in this article to learn how you can add this great herb, basil, to your home vegetable garden.
Nov
4
Home Vegetable Gardening: Garlic
November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment
I was watching a rerun of an episode of the television show, Friends the other night and in the episode Phoebe accuses Monica of using way too much garlic when she cooks food at her restaurant. That led me to thinking is too much garlic a bad thing? Me personally, I don't think so.
Beyond warding away vampires in horror films, garlic is a great addition to a lot of wonderful recipes you can prepare right at home. To make those recipes even better you can user garlic grown right in your own backyard.
Nov
2
Home Vegetable Gardening: Growing Endive
November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Endive makes for a great vegetable to be planted in the early spring soon after the last frost occurs in your area. It is a great addition to a salad or garnishes for many other dishes. Here is how you can add great tasting endive to your home vegetable garden.
To make life easier for yourself and take advantage of gardening as soon as the frost season passes you by for the warmer spring months, start your endive seeds in doors. A portable small greenhouse, also known in some parts as a humidity dome, is available at your local home or garden center for less than five bucks. This will help speed up the germination process. If you do start your seeds in pots, make sure you give your endive eight weeks before moving them outdoors and do not plant the seed any deeper than 1/4″.
Nov
1
What Are Net Pots? | ArticlesBase.com
November 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment
If you are a gardener, then you might be familiar with net pots. Net pots are plant containers that have holes in the bottom and sides, and are similar in appearance to a kitchen strainer. Netting is used inside the container, and this allows the plant's roots to easily grow through the netting and out the holes on the bottoms and sides of the container. Net pots are used for hydroponic gardening systems as well as for aeroponic gardening.
Oct
29
Home Vegetable Gardening: Terms You Should Get to Know
October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Like many home vegetable gardeners, when I was younger I concentrated on the simple basics of having a home vegetable garden. The information I am about to share with you was never even a thought in my mind, but as I have come to learn, knowing it, has made me a better gardener and my harvest more productive.
You can keep your home vegetable garden at the current level of where it is now of planting some seeds, adding water, maybe a little fertilizer and waiting for the vegetables to come up, or you can follow the advice below and produce even more.
Oct
25
Home Vegetable Gardening: Treating Plants for Powdery Mildew
October 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Powdery mildew affects such a wide range of plants but most notably those that are in the broadleaf category such as squash and different varieties of plants in the pea families.
If your plants currently have them, do not worry it is a very common occurrence and even better yet this pesky problem is easily treatable.
If left untreated by doing nothing however, your plants can become weak, look deformed and reduce yields of your harvest.
Here are some steps you can take today that could reduce and/or eliminate powdery mildew from your vegetable garden.
The first step is to avoid planting species of plants, such as phlox or bee balm, anywhere near your vegetable plants. This simply invites trouble into your garden, making it easier for it to infect and spread.
Oct
17
Home Vegetable Gardening: Phosphorus Is Necessary for Seed and Root Development
October 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Phosphorus is very important in the early stages of vegetable plant development. Plants need this element in order to sustain good root development. If phosphorus is in short supply in your soil, your vegetable plant's growth will slow very quickly or even worse, not grow at all.
A common appearance of lack of phosphorous in your soil is streaks of purple up and down stems or on the leaves and low yield of fruits and vegetables.
Phosphorus makes up one of the five elements needed in plant DNA for the process of photosynthesis, with the other four being carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. All of the pieces to this puzzle must be in place, otherwise during seed development the plant's DNA will not form properly.
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