gardening
Vermiculite and its benefits: Gardening tips
If you're new to gardening, then you probably have heard about vermiculite, but have no idea what it is and why you might need it. Being a gardener means learning new things constantly, so if you want to get more experienced and effective, then it's education time.
Kate Yakimchuk vermiculite tips Garden 9 October 2023
Benefits of fan crown: Gardening tips
When growing bushes and fruit trees, you can use pruning to change the crown shape. Crown shape affects plant health a lot, and fan crowns can also improve your plant's health and strength.
Kate Yakimchuk crown trees Garden 8 October 2023
Ferula: Growing and Care
This towering, winter-hardy herbaceous perennial can be grown in the background or as a solitaire plant, such as near a pond.
Diana Dashkevich plants plants tips plants care Garden 8 October 2023
Benefits of petrolatum: Gardening advice
Learning more about gardening often means learning more about its tools, chemicals, methods, and hacks. Petrolatum, which is commonly known as petroleum jelly, can be useful in gardening for a simple reason: it helps protect and nourish certain plants and garden tools.
Kate Yakimchuk petrolatum trees bark Garden 8 October 2023
Gardening Secrets: How to Grow Feijoa
There are two ways to get feijoa into your garden collection - from seeds or as a ready-made seedling. Seedlings will bloom only in 7-9 years, so planting feijoa seedlings is a more preferable option. An evergreen resident of southern countries will begin to bear fruit earlier, its varietal characteristics will be known.
Diana Dashkevich trees plants tips plants care Garden 8 October 2023
Creating a swamp garden: Gardening tips
If your garden is naturally wet, then you can choose suitable plants that can thrive there. This is called "swamp garden", and it can be a great idea on how to use natural features of your garden to your benefit.
Kate Yakimchuk swamp plants tips Garden 8 October 2023
Gardening Secrets: How to Grow Linden
Linden is not picky about soil, so it can be planted in any area.
Diana Dashkevich trees gardening tips Garden 8 October 2023
Why aeration is so important: Gardening tips
If you're interested in learning gardening methods that can benefit you a lot, it's time to learn more about aeration. While being simple, it's also a pretty effective method on how to achieve better results when growing plants.
Kate Yakimchuk aeration tips Garden 8 October 2023
How to make an alpine slide: Make your garden pretty
If you want to make your garden pretty and visually interesting, then you can make an alpine slide! It's like making a small, rocky hill with pretty, low-maintenance plants that thrive in mountainous regions.
Kate Yakimchuk decoration tips Garden 7 October 2023
Dioecious plants: Gardening tips
When choosing perfect plants for your garden, you can choose dioecious plants - they can be pretty beneficial for you. Lots of plant varieties can be dioecious, so you should check the varieties before buying seeds or seedlings.
Kate Yakimchuk plants planting Garden 7 October 2023
Gardening Secrets: How to Grow Ledum
Marsh wild rosemary is best planted in spring or autumn. Since it is a shrub, its seeds will take quite a long time to germinate.
Diana Dashkevich flowers plants gardening tips Garden 7 October 2023
Violets: Growing and Care
These laconic small flowers bloom 10 months a year with proper care. A break in flowering usually occurs during the hot summer months. Simple, double, edged, star-shaped, corrugated, single-colored and spotted - in total there are more than 1,500 species of indoor violets.
Diana Dashkevich flowers plants tips Garden 7 October 2023
Benefits of hybridization: Gardening tips
Being a great gardener means learning new things and experimenting a lot - that's how you can achieve the best results. One of the methods of creating strong and healthy plants is hybridization - it allows you to add strength of different varieties to one plant.
Kate Yakimchuk hybridization plants Garden 7 October 2023
Learning about galls: Gardening tips
If you want your plants to be healthy, then you should keep your eyes on signs that something might go wrong. One of such signs are galls - things that often show that your plants might be seriously ill.
Kate Yakimchuk galls plants health Garden 7 October 2023
Features of alpine plants: Gardening tips
In some areas, you can only grow alpine plants in your garden - just because your climate is suitable for that. Alpine plants have some unusual features that help them grow in pretty tough conditions, and it can be quite handy.
Kate Yakimchuk plants nature tips Garden 6 October 2023
Mulberry: Growing and Care
Mulberries begin to bear fruit in the 3rd or 4th year, but the berries are small. They become larger when the tree reaches 8-9 years of age. The bark of the trunk is brown, fissured, young branches are grayish-green or brownish, pubescent at the ends.
Diana Dashkevich berries trees Garden 6 October 2023
Gardening Secrets: How to Grow Irga
Height is 3-8 m, on average up to 5 m. By the age of 40, the Canadian serviceberry becomes about 6 m tall and 7-8 m wide. Grows quickly (20-25 cm/year in height and width).
Diana Dashkevich trees berries gardening tips Garden 6 October 2023
Why forcing can be beneficial: Gardening tips
When gardening, you often want your plants to bloom earlier, but you can't change nature - or can you? By using forcing, you can alter your plants' growth time, and change them a lot, so it can be a quite beneficial method.
Kate Yakimchuk forcing tips plants Garden 6 October 2023
Moisture capacity matters: Gardening tips
You already know that you can't water your plants too often or too much - it can harm them, because your plants and soil can't use too much water. That's how moisture capacity works - your garden only takes what it needs, and the rest can only damage it and make it weak.
Kate Yakimchuk moisture tips soil Garden 6 October 2023
Evergreens are amazing: Gardening tips
One of the most fascinating garden plants are evergreens - they are resilient and low-maintenance, and they always look great. In nature, evergreens developed a few cool tricks to survive in cold and challenging places.
Kate Yakimchuk evergreens plants nature Garden 5 October 2023