Archive for the 'Gardening' Category

How to Start Vegetables Gardening in Your Backyard

Planting vegetables in your backyard or garden can provide many advantages for you. You can enjoy your activities to care them and you can also harvest the vegetables from your garden. Before you start gardening, you will better to prepare the medium, and the plants you want to grow. You need to determine whether you [...]

Friday, February 3rd, 2012

Herb Garden :: CHOOSING WHAT TYPE OF GARDEN IS RIGHT FOR YOU

Stop! Before you take the shovel, before you plant a single herb. Stop to consider why you want an herb garden. What are your intentions for planting these marvelous plants? Are you planning on using them both fresh and dried for culinary purposes — to add to your meals to enhance the flavors? Are you [...]

Friday, September 9th, 2011

Basic Indoor hydroponics Gardening Guide – Indoor Grow Lights for Hydroponics Systems

A great indoor garden requires a good grow light. It could mean the difference between success and failure. Having the right hydroponic light is the single-most important and costly decision in setting up your garden.  Hydroponic grow lights come in three main types:   Incandescent lights These are the usual lights found in homes. They [...]

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

Grow Lights in hydroponics gardening

Along with water,  hydroponics plant nutrients, Co2 and oxygen, grow lights is the key basic component, required by plants to live. Providing additional light is necessary for indoor gardening. Furthermore, light should resemble the sunlight as much as possible. In order to achieve that goal several types of lights are used: incandescent, fluorescent, high intensity [...]

Tuesday, September 6th, 2011

Organic gardening in hydroponics – The Hydroponics ?Ebb and flow? System

“Ebb and flow” hydroponics system is an example of the common arrangement of the indoor garden. Such system is composed of the upper grow bed, which is a box or tray that holds containers with plants. Those individual containers may be filled with various mediums, the most frequently used ones being rockwool, coconut fiber, lava [...]

Wednesday, August 31st, 2011

Indoor Gardening

Indoor gardening is becoming more popular as technology improves and costs decrease for supplies and equipment.  Growing indoors can be very rewarding and the results are absolutely fantastic when done correctly, that said they can also be devastating when things go wrong. In this article I would like to dispel some myths about indoor gardening [...]

Monday, August 29th, 2011

What is your Garden Costing You?

It can be a scary exercise to sit down and work out exactly what is spent every year, on the average home gardens and lawns. Try adding up the costs of plants, weedicides, pesticides, fungicides, fertilisers, petrol, mower and trimmer maintenance, weed eater cord, garden mulch and even water costs. Even the time and [...]

Saturday, August 27th, 2011

Repairing your Garden Hose

With the old familiar variety of garden hoses as well as black Poly irrigation systems, there are two major problems that occur along the length of the hose or pipe, one is cracking and/or splitting of the hose/pipe and the second problem is the familiar kinking of the hose/pipe. So what can you do about [...]

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011

What is Hydroponic Gardening – Introduction to hydroponics

What is Hydroponic Gardening These days, when the humanity faces many challenges, associated with natural resources depletion, bad ecology and many health problems, stemming out of the wrong food choices, it is, perhaps, the best time ever to return to natural ways of producing food for the sake of our own and our planet. It [...]

Monday, August 22nd, 2011

How to Turn Your Yard and Garden Into a “Naturescape”

Water-wise “naturescapes” offer savings When it comes to watering your lawn and paying water bills, sound gardening practices can cut down homeowner investments of effort, time and money, reports the American Association of Nurserymen. And, you don’t have to turn your lovely colorful landscape into a rock garden featuring a sprinkling of cactus plants. This [...]

Saturday, August 20th, 2011