Shade gardening is a type of gardening many new gardeners don’t think of. Most seem to think that in order to have a beautiful blooming garden, you need to put plants in areas that get sunlight. That’s BS. Excuse me, I mean, that’s not entirely true. In fact there are some shade loving plants that are absolutly beautiful. Many shade loving plants also tend to have beautiful colors and textures on their leaves and stalks as well, which helps bring beauty and interest to a previously drab, dark or boring …

Many new gardeners don’t often understand how important it is to use mulch around the base of their flowers, plants, shrubs and trees. It doesn’t matter what kind of gardening you’re doing though: flower garden, vegetable gardening, container gardening, or planting bushes and trees - putting mulch around your garden beds will help you in a number of ways. Well, four ways actually. Here there are.

Many people assume cactus plants are ugly, prickly, almost alien looking thing that crops up in the hottest and dryest parts of the world. And guess what: they are right :). Cactus plants do grow wild in the desert southwest, and they do thrive in extreme heat and drought conditions. But this is one of the things that makes them so wonderful to use in a home garden. You see, anyone unfamiliar with cactus plants doesn’t usually know that they produce some beautiful flowers too. In fact, most cactus plants …

Every gardener knows that nature can provide some of the best allies when it comes to keeping your soil healthy. These allies come in the form of earthworms, microorganisms, and even larger animals such as insects. Here are three of your best friends when it comes to helping create a healthy soil for your perennials and other flowerbeds.

Xeriscaping is the act of creating naturalized gardens using plants, flowers, shrubs and trees which are acclimated to the particular area you live in. Xeriscaping is becoming very popular, because when you create your garden based on flowers and plants which grow naturally in your area, you end up needing to water and care for them much less. Learn more on xeriscaping and what it’s all about.

Creating a container based water garden is a wonderful way to get your very own water garden started, without needing much space at all to do it in. It’s also easy, quick, and fairly inexpensive to create as well.Container water gardens can be made as small or large as you’d like them to be, but keep in mind that the larger your garden is, the more space you’ll need for the water garden container to be placed. On the opposite end of the equation though, if you create your water …

Another thing that most new organic gardeners become confused about, and sometimes even frustrated with, is figuring out how to control pests and bugs in their gardens. It doesn’t matter if you’re growing roses, annuals, perennials, bushes, trees, vegetables or something else… all plants have one or more bugs which seem to like to feed on either the plant leaves and stems, the flowers themselves, or both. Here is more on natural pest control?

Creating raised garden beds is a wonderful way to get a garden started easily. When you plant your flowers or vegetables in raised garden beds, you don’t have to pull weeds first, turn soil, or dig out a lot of rocks and other debris. Instead, you simply choose the location you want your garden bed to be, lay down your bed retainer walls, and fill it with dirt. Lazy gardening Read more

Understanding the role that soil plays in the garden is one of the best assets that you can have as a gardener. It is this knowledge that will allow you to create a healthier environment for your plants and get the maximum benefits from them.
In doing so, you will also make your own life easier, as a garden that is well managed from the soil up, is a garden that is a lot easier to manage, from one day to the next.
A garden that has good soil that has been …

Disease can spread more readily in wet conditions so you need to be careful when working in your garden during the wet season not to transfer disease from one plant to the next.
If you find any diseased parts on your plants cut them out and discard them in the rubbish. If the plant is too far-gone to recover then remove the whole plant but always be careful that in doing so the diseased portions don’t come into contact with the other plants, as this will cause it to spread.
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