Easy gardening tips for amateurs.
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Bat Guano vs. Vermicompost Experiment Results
We all know how important is to fertilize our plants to get them to grow more vigorously and to provide us more food. There are all kinds of fertilizers we can use organic and mineral fertilizers. There is an interesting experiment where we can see the difference between two popular fertilizers, Bat Guano vs Vermicompost…
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How are Strawberries Grown Commercially?
Have you ever wondered how do they grow strawberries on a large scale commercially? Well this video shows from start to finish how strawberries are grown in California. Enjoy.
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Don’t Grow These Crops
Gardeners often spend a lot of time trying to figure out how they’re going to set up their garden and how they’re going to grow in raised beds, in a greenhouse, in containers, or in the ground. And that’s great. But I find it interesting that often we don’t spend nearly enough time figuring out…
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Gardening Tips That Don’t Work
Coffee, milk, sugar, eggs, bananas sounds like a typical grocery list. Maybe what you had for breakfast this morning. It’s also a list of ingredients that you’ve been told you should add to your garden to help your plants grow better. Well, that may not be the best advice. I see a lot of the…
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10 Vegetables that Love to Climb
Gardening vertically is one of my favorite ways to garden. Looking around my garden, you will see a lot of different ways that I garden vertically. One of the biggest advantages of vertical gardening is all the space it saves. Vertical gardening also helps avoid pests and diseases. It makes harvesting easier and adds beauty…
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Top 10 Cold Hardy Fruit Trees to Grow in Your Garden
In this post we are going to discuss about my top cold hardy fruit trees that I think every gardener needs to grow. Some of these on the list you may already be growing and some of them you may not be. The whole idea behind this article is just to help generate some ideas…
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How to Prepare your Garden for Winter?
This time of year is usually considered a quiet time for gardeners, but there are plenty of essential jobs to keep us busy. We’ll take you through some of the most important. It can be tempting to let nature take its course and leave dead or dying plants where they are and clear up what’s…
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Is my Persimmon Tree Male or Female?
It’s a little known fact that persimmon trees have both male and female trees, and only the females produce fruit. In this video I’ll teach you how to identify the difference in male and female …
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Growing Sweet Potatoes Vertically Maximized Yield
Hi have you ever considered growing sweet potatoes vertically? These ground covering vines can reach 20 feet six m in length. For gardeners with limited space, growing sweet potatoes on a trellis may be the only way to include this tasty tuber among their homegrown vegetables. In this video i will guide you step by…
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How to Grow Enough Food to Feed a Family?
The common question gardeners ask is how much of the food we eat as a family can we grow ourselves? This depends on a number of factors, so here are the key things you need to consider. The biggest factor which will determine how much you can grow is how much land do you have?…
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