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To give your garden a playful look, you need to be creative and what’s better than some offbeat planters made from unused home items hanging in line and beautiful plants trailing from them. 1. DIY Hanging Terrarium The DIY hanging terrarium planter is perfect for keeping indoors, and it looks awesome. With a few supplies and plants, you can do this without any difficulty following the steps. Visit this website and this ONE too, to learn everything....

If you’re a beginner plant grower and want to grow flavorful herbs in your balcony, these quick 2-Minutes Practical Tips for Starting a Balcony Herb Garden are going to help you a lot. Check out these smart gardening hacks for beginners here 1. Buy Seedlings If you’re a beginner, don’t start your herb garden from seeds. Instead, buy seedlings or already established herb plants from a nursery. This will save your time and efforts....

While all succulents are unique due to their extraordinary shapes, varieties, colors, and combinations–These 31 succulents with unique shapes are the most. If you love collecting these low-maintenance plant, save this list. Check out our article on low light Succulents here Succulents with Unique Shapes and Patterns 1. Haworthia cooperi var. truncata This variety features almost transparent, patterned ‘windowed’ leaves that grow smaller than other haworthia varieties. You can plant it in small pots or terrariums....

Catnip is a mint family herb. It’s known for attracting cats like a magician. This gray-green foliage plant releases a chemical called nepetalactone, when rubbed, which works as a cat attractant. Catnip is also used to flavor salads, teas, and meat dishes. Overall, it’s a useful herb, and you can also grow it as a houseplant. Botanical name: Nepeta Cataria Plant Type: Herbaceous Perennial What’s with the Cats? Cats don’t bother the catnip plant much, as long as you are not crushing its leaves....

One of the hallmark signs of spring is the welcoming taste of fresh strawberries. However, strawberries can suffer from some pest issues, including being susceptible to the strawberry root weevil. Table of Contents Weevils are insects that are part of the beetles family. There are three different species of weevils that have larvae that will feed on the roots of strawberry plants: the Black vine weevil (Otiorhynchus sulcatus), the Rough strawberry root weevil (O....

We are writing this article by keeping in mind that you have read the previous article on how to make a birdcage planter. If you haven’t, please read that first as this article is based on it. Birdcage with Flowers Step One: Before buying plants, consider how many hours of sunlight your birdcage planter will receive and how much wide and deep the cage is. Step Two: Instead of sowing seeds or planting the cuttings, buy plants from nursery, picking an established plant is a better idea....

In ideal conditions, they are typically easy to care for and will return year after year to provide color in the bleak winter landscape. Contracting a disease called “black death” is almost certainly bad news. Fortunately, in this article we will not be discussing the bubonic plague, but instead a relatively new and lethal viral disease that affects hellebore flowers. Hellebores are herbaceous perennials, loved for their winter blooms that pop up in January or February and last until early spring....

Not too long ago I was looking for more ways to experiment with my deep water culture systems, including building a very simple hydroponics for kids project. I wanted to keep the system as simple as possible while making sure it still produced a healthy plant. Enter the Kratky Method.​ What Is The Kratky Method? Let’s start off with my video overview of the Kratky Method: Because hydroponics grows plants without soil, there are often a lot of moving parts in a hydroponic system: pumps, wicks, airstones…and the electricity to power them all....

So, when you were enjoying that hot cup of tea in the morning, did you think what might be its type? Well, there are more varieties of tea than you can think of! Nothing relaxes one out like a hot cup of tea. But as there are are many types of tea leaves, how to pick the best one out? This article will help you to choose the best from different Types of Tea Leaves!...

These arid-climate natives hail from locales that receive little natural rainfall, and they’ve adapted to low water levels by storing moisture in their leaves and stems. Succulents, including cacti, are wonderfully low maintenance and make attractive, colorful, and unique container plants for the house and garden. But they are fussy about soil conditions and need a fast-draining blend to ensure healthy, vibrant growth. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products....

How great it would be if you could grow plants with the help of a fish tank! Aquaculture and hydroponics can be used in a clever way to grow plants of your choice without taking too much space inside homes. It is simple and easy and there are many ways you could do it! Here are some of the clever Aquaponics Fish Tank DIY ideas you can use. Check out our article on old fish tank uses here Aquaponics Fish Tank DIY Ideas 1....

Do you raise chickens? If so, you’re likely awash in an abundance of fresh eggs from your birds, just like Kevin is. Thankfully, Kris came to the rescue and taught Kevin how to make her incredible Bloody Mary deviled eggs! While deviled eggs are incredible on their own, the Bloody Mary deviled eggs are packed with all of the flavor of a Bloody Mary in deviled egg form. Hot sauce, tomato paste, and other ingredients combine to provide deviled eggs with a kick!...

As you expand your knowledge about growing cucumbers, you may be interested to learn about cucumber companion plants. Cucumber plants are one of the top five vegetables found in a vegetable garden and thrive when planted near beneficial plants. Companion planting is not a new concept, with evidence of its use by the ancient Greeks and Romans. Table of Contents Native to India, the cucumber has been a food source for well over 3000 years....

But you should still take steps to protect your crops, and treat them if needed. This disease can predispose asparagus plants to crown rot and result in an early death. Pleospora herbarum Purple spot is an asparagus disease that can infect between 60 and 90 percent of the new spears when conditions are right. Most prominent in cool weather, it typically subsides when conditions become dry. The disease manifests as small, superficial, reddish-purple lesions on the lower half of new spears....

The good news is that with a pinch of creativity and a dash of careful setup, anyone can train cantaloupe to grow vertically on a trellis of nearly any type. Wouldn’t it be nice if we all had gardens so big that we could give the cantaloupe their own big old patch to spread their vines? If you do have a garden that large, I am sincerely glad. The thought of a massive melon patch is immensely cheering....

Corn plants are famously fast growers, so it makes sense that corn microgreens are one of the quickest you can grow. In less than a week, you can turn a handful of hard kernels into an abundance of healthy, delicious microgreens. If you haven’t tried growing microgreens yet, this is an excellent place to start. Table of Contents Most microgreens taste a bit like their full-grown, green selves, and corn is no exception....

If you always reach for the bottle of mustard at cookouts, you’ll love mustard microgreens. These baby greens don’t look anything like the popular condiment, but they pack the same hot and sweet taste. In fact, mustard sprouts are one of the most flavorful microgreens. They’re the perfect garden-friendly addition to zest up dinner! Table of Contents Mature mustard plants may give us that familiar yellow color, but they can’t compete with the nutrition and simplicity of mustard microgreens....

I’ll go over how to use this herb as a green manure, and the garden benefits of using it as a cover crop. I’ll also offer some solutions for sourcing borage seeds. You may be familiar with borage as a lovely garden herb that produces delicate little blue flowers, blossoms that are perfect for freezing in ice cubes for a refreshing summertime twist in your favorite chilled beverages. But did you know this herb, known to us botany geeks as Borago officinalis, can also be used as a cover crop to improve the soil?...

Today, we’re taking a look at a complete lighting kit from my friends over at GrowersHouse. I’ve talked about ceramic metal halide lights in-depth before, but realize that they might be a bit expensive for most growers to get started with. On top of that, the form factor of the bulbs isn’t friendly for those who are rocking a standard HID lighting system. Table of Contents Getting set up with a CMH grow light used to mean getting a new grow light reflector – one with the two-prong base that most CMH bulbs use....

Read on to find out how to distinguish the two and what to do if the trunk or limbs are disfigured in this manner. Does your fruit, nut, or shade tree have weird growths on its trunk or limbs? There are two main reasons for this. One is that they are burr knots or burls. Your tree is confused and growing root tissue on its limbs. The other reason is due to a bacterial infection that causes tumors to be produced....