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Japan is a country whose achievements are known worldwide, their technology is superior, still they have not forgotten about nature. The art of creating beautiful and picturesque gardens, brought to perfection and famed Japanese garden, which is respected and admired all around the world. How to make a Japanese balcony garden The inspiration for the creation of Japanese garden is the nature itself. The idea of the garden in the Japanese style is to create a space that looks serene and as close as possible to the mother nature, where human intervention is almost invisible and all elements harmonize perfectly with each other....

If you live in USDA Hardiness Zones 10 to 12, it makes a lush and colorful shrub that may soar to 10 feet tall. Croton, Codiaeum variegatum, a native of Australia and Southeast Asia, may be cultivated as a garden specimen or as a houseplant. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. As an indoor plant, it is a substantial and eye-catching addition to home decor with a height of up to three feet....

My leeks were finally ready to harvest! I knew it was time to make one of my all-time favorite soups: potato leek soup. There are a few things I love about soups: They’re dead-simple to make They’re super nutritionally-dense They’re easy to make with ingredients from the garden! So I ventured out into the garden to harvest my leeks (see the full growing guide here). With a quick tug, they were out of the ground…but they were filthy:...

But just because we’ve done something for a long time, that doesn’t make it necessarily useful. The idea of gardening with the moon is an ancient one. People have been doing it for as long as we’ve kept records about gardening. Websites offer advice on which part of the lunar cycle will help your veggies grow big and juicy. Or they may guide you to which astrological phase has the most influence on the flowering of your bushes....

Highly nutritious, easy to grow, and excellent for long-term storage, the rutabaga is one of those rarely talked about crops that really deserves more attention from the modern gardener. Brassica napus var. napobrassica If you are looking to spice up your garden and grow something new this year, look no further than the rutabaga! We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission....

With the explosion of hydroponics, indoor growing, and the LED grow light industry, it’s no surprise that there are a ton of companies in the market right now. Table of Contents It’s a bit overwhelming to sort through all of these companies popping up and determine which are the best ones for your particular needs in the garden. So, I’ve decided to go deep and review some of the most popular LED grow light companies on the market....

It may be prickly business, but propagating cacti is very easy! This is especially the case with the Opuntia genus, also known as prickly pear cactus. These drought-tolerant plants can be propagated by cuttings or seeds, both of which we’ll walk you through. Soon, your single cactus will become a whole garden of southwestern flair, thanks to prickly pear cactus propagation! Table of Contents Opuntia is a vast genus of over 150 species....

An afternoon of berry picking is a joyful memory that many of us have from our childhood. Wandering around and scouting out these delicious little nuggets of sweetness like a treasure hunt for candy can be so much fun! In adulthood, many gardeners will try to replicate this experience in their own backyard, or kitchen or patio garden! For gardeners wanting to replicate their childhood joy of picking fresh growing raspberries, consider installing a raspberry raised bed....

“Teaming with Microbes,” authored by Alaskan-based writers Jeff Lowenfels and Wayne Lewis, still prevails today as an important epistle for farmers and gardeners everywhere. A dense yet page-turning read, it will open the minds and eyes of every gardener, acquainting them with the microscopic wilderness at their feet and in the soil. Teaming with Microbes: The Organic Gardener’s Guide to the Soil Food Web, Revised Edition The book reveals the true scope of an environment we mostly cannot see – and which we either choose to use or abuse when we garden, with no grey areas in between!...

Fortunately, they are easy to grow in containers, which can be particularly advantageous if you are worried about them spreading. Morning glories, Ipomoea purpurea, are quick-growing vines, popular for their colorful flowers that open each morning from summer until the first frost of fall. Reaching between six and 10 feet in height, this fairly aggressive plant can take over a garden if you aren’t careful. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products....

Your young plants are sickly, and you suspect they’ve been stricken with corn seedling blight. If your corn is dying of seedling blight, also called damping off, it’s easy to feel frustrated. But with a bit of knowledge and prevention, you can keep your crop from getting infected. Read more below to learn how. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission....

Apart from delivering oxygen, houseplants also remove harmful chemicals and VOCs from indoor air. Some of these plants help in restoring moisture back into the air, which helps in maintaining ideal humidity and thwarts conditions like sore throat, respiratory problems, and wrinkled skin—interested in growing them? Here are some of the best Indoor Plants that Increase Humidity! Check out our article on plants with health benefits here Why Should You Grow Plants that Increase Humidity?...

If you’re a gardener, you’ve probably experienced this houseplants heartbreak… Table of Contents You get your new spider plant, pot it up, and then the tips of the leaves turn brown or black. I’ve been through it too with my spider plants. Leaves usually start turning a brownish color due to various careless mistakes on our part – moisture, stress, and sunlight overexposure being the most common factors. So, let’s discuss what you can do to prevent your spider plant leaves from turning brown!...

Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, most often referred to as bearberry, is the perfect edible ground cover for anyone struggling with poor soil or rocky soil conditions in their landscape. Its common name comes from what happens to most of these plants – apparently bears love the fruit that the plant produces and will happily consume them in huge volumes in fall as they’re fattening up for the winter. This is not limited to bears, either; many types of migratory birds will happily eat the berries....

Ginkgo tree is native to China. One of the most interesting ginkgo biloba tree facts is that it is also known as a ‘living fossil’ because the Ginkgo biloba is one of the oldest living tree species, more than 250 million years ago. Ginkgo biloba is an ornamental tree valued for the beauty of its foliage and branches. It is a very strong tree and easy to grow. Ginkgo biloba trees are the only current representative species of the genus Ginkgo and family Ginkgoaceae....

Materials Onion sets Air stone Air pump Water Net pots Growing medium Tray I picked up some red onion sets from my local Home Depot. The rest of the materials I had from other grows, but you can source most of it from Home Depot and your local hydroponics or gardening store. You can also improvise and make your own equipment – there are a lot of different ways to do it!...

With its beauty-ruining dark spots and ability to turn a robust bush into a sad, stunted one, this disease isn’t one you can just ignore. Roses are some of the most popular ornamentals for a good reason: They’re stunning. When they’re healthy, that is. But if you grow roses long enough, you’ll inevitably run into diseases, and downy mildew is becoming a more and more common one. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products....

Are you with me? Let’s take a look! Weeds – those opportunistic, unwelcome plants that can effortlessly outcompete your edibles and ornamentals. If only there were an easy way to keep them at bay! Well, unfortunately, there isn’t. They are really good at what they do. But there are some things you can do to make the job of weeding a lot less cumbersome and time-consuming. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products....

Table of Contents As gardeners, we’re always trying to make the most of what we have… But sometimes our creative juices need a refill! Here are 15 different ways you can upcycle and repurpose items in your garden! Be sure to comment below with your own methods :)​ 1. Turn Styrofoam Cups Into Planters source Ideally you’re not using a lot of styrofoam cups to begin with, but sometimes it’s unavoidable....

We all love to click great selfies, and what could be better than to add a touch of nature in them? So, here is the list of 13 tremendous ideas that will help you to design the best indoor selfie space with plants without the help of any interior designer. Check out our article on best plants for the gym here How Can Plants Be Great for Selfies? Nature has always been the best canvas, providing some of the great visuals our eyes could feast on....