gardening
Prepare your pond for winter: Gardening tips
If you have a beautiful pond in your garden, then you need to take good care of it, which includes preparing it for winter. It's not only about its looks - it's mostly about the plants, fish, and wildlife that lives there.
Kate Yakimchuk pond tips winter Garden 9 September 2023
Late fall harvesting: Gardening tips
If you choose your plants wisely, you can collect harvest almost all year long, including late fall. While some fruits and veggies are better to collect in summer or September, some plants can become your perfect harvest in late October, or even November.
Kate Yakimchuk harvest fall seasons Garden 9 September 2023
Growing cape gooseberries: Gardening tips
Cape gooseberries, or physalis, is a beautiful plant that also produces delicious fruits. You can grow it to decorate your garden or house (because it stays pretty for a long time), or you can eat it to get all the vitamins your body needs.
Kate Yakimchuk physalis plants Garden 8 September 2023
Ardisia: Growing and Care
The ideal soil is slightly alkaline or slightly acidic, light and well-permeable to air and water. Neutralized peat is perfect for ardisia, a mixture of leafy soil and sand with the addition of sphagnum and fine charcoal and a small amount of coconut fiber.
Diana Dashkevich plants gardening tips Garden 8 September 2023
Gardening Secrets: How to Grow Saffron
The main supplier of saffron is Iran, but the best and most expensive saffron is grown in Spain.
Diana Dashkevich flowers gardening tips Garden 8 September 2023
Pond making mistakes: Make your garden pretty
A beautiful pond can become the prettiest part of your garden - but only if you make it well. While ponds are generally not the hardest things to create, there are still a few mistakes that lots of people make.
Kate Yakimchuk pond mistakes tips Garden 8 September 2023
Plant evergreens: Make your garden pretty
If you want to have a beautiful garden, but don't want to spend too much time on maintenance, then you need to plant beautiful evergreens there. Evergreens can be versatile: some of them are short and fluffy, and others are tall and strong, so they can protect your garden from winds and unwanted attention.
Kate Yakimchuk evergreens plants Garden 8 September 2023
Gardening Secrets: How to Grow Calibrachoa at Home
Calibrachoa is usually grown in pots and containers like hanging petunias. The earth in containers dries up quickly. But caliberhoa is more drought-resistant, which distinguishes it from petunias.
Diana Dashkevich flowers gardening tips Garden 7 September 2023
Things were better back then: Why gardening used to be better in some ways
Modern gardening is effective and beneficial in many ways - it's progressing and evolving, as it should be. Meanwhile, some aspects of gardening used to be better back then - or, at least, they were pretty good as they were.
Kate Yakimchuk history chemicals Garden 7 September 2023
Gardening advice: Mistakes that ruin your harvest
Gardeners always want to get amazing harvests, but sometimes they try too hard or don't do enough to keep their plants safe. Moreover, even experienced gardeners often make the same popular mistakes ruining their gardens.
Kate Yakimchuk harvest mistakes Garden 7 September 2023
Herbicides: Is it safe to use them?
If you are tired of weeds in your garden, then you need herbicides - special chemicals that can completely stop any plants from growing. These chemicals are relatively new, but they are widely used nowadays - not only in gardens, but also in situations when you need to get rid of grass or other plants.
Kate Yakimchuk herbicides plants Garden 6 September 2023
Clarkia: Growing and Care
Clarkia tolerates cold well, so you can plant a flower immediately in the soil in early spring or before winter. It is believed that plants grown in this way are stronger and more resilient.
Diana Dashkevich flowers plants tips Garden 6 September 2023
Sudden oak death: One of the deadliest plant diseases
Gardeners care about their plants a lot, but some diseases are hard to identify, and even harder to cure - and one of them is called "sudden oak death". It sounds pretty terrifying, and it actually is - it's highly contagious, and it can kill your garden trees pretty quickly as well.
Kate Yakimchuk oak trees illness Garden 6 September 2023
Vegetables that changed a lot because of selection: They used to be completely different
The word "selection" might sound a bit scary for some people, but it's generally a good thing - it has helped people a lot, so now we can eat lots of delicious fruits and vegetables. In fact, most popular vegetables used to look (and taste) completely different - they were small, tough, and generally not that tasty.
Kate Yakimchuk vegetables selection Garden 6 September 2023
How to make your gardening eco-friendly: Less waste, more benefits
Gardening is one of the healthiest and eco-friendliest hobbies you can enjoy - but there are still a few things you can improve. To make gardening even more eco-friendly, you can make it waste-free and reduce plastic, and so much more!
Kate Yakimchuk ecology tips waste Garden 5 September 2023
Gardening Secrets: How to Grow Mung Bean
Sprouts Mung bean sprouts are a typical component of Asian cuisine. Mash germinates easily within a day (under appropriate conditions).
Diana Dashkevich beans plants tips Garden 5 September 2023
Hibiscus: Growing and Care
Hibiscus is suitable for a sunny, bright place, protected from drafts. The soil is permeable and fertile.
Diana Dashkevich flowers plants tips Garden 5 September 2023
Pruning raspberry plants in fall: Should you do it?
Whether you should cut off dry raspberry plants in the fall depends on the specific type of raspberry plants you have and your local climate. Raspberry plants can be classified into two main categories: summer-bearing and everbearing.
Kate Yakimchuk raspberries plants pruning Garden 5 September 2023
Choose garden flowers that bloom in September: Make your garden pretty in fall
If you want to see your garden blooming in September, then you need to choose specific varieties of flowers. The flowers that bloom in September can vary depending on your location and climate zone, but there are several garden flowers that are known for their late-summer to early-fall blooms.
Kate Yakimchuk flowers fall blossom Garden 5 September 2023
Growing healthy roses can be challenging: Popular gardening mistakes
Lots of people want to have a thriving garden full of roses, but it's not that easy to grow it. Growing healthy roses can be a challenging endeavor for several reasons.
Kate Yakimchuk roses flowers tips Garden 4 September 2023