Mulching is one of the least arduous and yet most rewarding and beneficial practices in the home garden. It is therefore quite remarkable that so few gardeners make use of mulches. One frequently sees a gardener cheerfully watering several times a week during hot weather, while close at hand there is a wealth of material …
Growing delicious herbs at home makes cooking gourmet dishes easier and gives you healthy flavors to your food. But some herbs can be difficult to grow, especially indoors or in a garden without direct sunlight. If you don’t have the right type of soil, your herbs might never reach their full growth and flavor potential. …
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The selection of a suitable site on which to establish the vegetable garden requires considerable thought, for an ill-chosen spot can be a great handicap from the beginning. Although the average home gardener has little choice, several points must be considered if the outlay on seed, fertilizer, tools and labor is to show decent returns.
Lush grass is a welcome addition to most gardens, but sometimes may cause more harm than good, especially when it grows uninvited in your vegetable garden. But before revealing the tips on how to get rid of grass in vegetable gardens, it is highly important to understand the key reasons why you should eliminate grass …
Mint is a versatile herb in that it offers a plethora of culinary, nutritional, and medicinal benefits. Mint is also a great addition to teas and other drinks, as a condiment in Middle Eastern and Thai dishes, and a wonderful ingredient for aromatherapy starting from spearmint and peppermint to pineapple and chocolate mint.
What a pleasure growing Swiss Chard is! A veritable nutritional powerhouse full of vitamins, minerals and fibre but with negligible calories and lots of lovely ways to serve it raw or cooked. At the same time, my personal favorites, the colorful varietals, such as ‘Bright Lights’, live up to their alternative name of ‘Rainbow Chard’ …
Easy to grow almost all year-round in most climates, beetroot is a good choice for even the most novice of gardeners, being very easy to grow. Jars of shop-bought pickled beetroot certainly have their place at Sunday afternoon tea with cold meat leftover from the Sunday Roast, but fresh from the garden they take on …
Even if you don’t have a designated vegetable patch, you really should try growing green beans. Not only is it relatively easy to get a satisfyingly good crop, but they can also be trained to grow up a variety of different decorative structures providing a lovely centrepiece for even the most bijoux of courtyard spaces. …
Even if you are a relative new-comer to growing your own vegetables, growing Fava beans would be a good starter project because they are so easy and rewarding to grow, even if you live in a cool climate, because they actually thrive best between 40 and 70- deg F. They can take up a bit …
There’s no two ways about it, you need to be pretty committed to embark on the process of learning how to grow asparagus, you also need a bit of space, both of which, I suppose, go towards explaining why it is so expensive to buy in the shops! However, the sheer delight and satisfaction in …
