Many gardening articles expound the advantages of a gentle southern sloping garden, but sometimes the slope is a little too steep for effective gardening. Or maybe the only space you have for your garden is a steep hill but terracing is too expensive and labour intensive. The solution: building raised …
If you try growing mint outdoors in your garden beds, you might be surprised by how invasive and vigorous the herb can grow. Before long, your mint plant can take over an entire bed, so it’s no surprise that it also does well in pots and indoors. Learning how to …
Starting seeds indoors can give you a head start on the gardening season and provide an earlier spring harvest, but it is a delicate process. Plants are most vulnerable in the seedling phase, where they are susceptible to disease and easily drowned, so they need extra attention and care to …
Lemon trees are typically grown in tropical or subtropical regions, but if you live in a colder area and want to enjoy homegrown lemons, you can learn how to grow lemon trees in pots and best of all It’s easier than you might imagine. When you grow lemon trees in …
Self-watering planters and pots have become quite popular lately, especially with the boom in small-space urban gardening. They can be purchased in many different shapes and sizes, or even made as an easy DIY project. This simple, yet effective design is easy to customize because it only consists of four …
Plants and flowers look magnificent in the Sun. The light on their foliage and beautiful petals just makes them shine like stars in the sky. Attractive pots and decorative containers and lots of sunlight on terraces and patios with healthy plants can turn even a small balcony into a small …
You may have heard that carrots can be finicky to grow, but growing them in pots gives you an added advantage by allowing you to create the perfect, micromanaged conditions for them to thrive. As long as you have a deep enough container with lots of good soil and a …
Although typically associated with the outdoors and large orchards, anyone can (and should!) enjoy the benefits of homegrown, fresh fruits by growing dwarf varieties of fruit trees in pots or containers. While most full-sized fruit tree varieties will be challenging to grow in pots, but you can often grow dwarf …
Even if you don’t have a large garden space, you can still learn how to grow okra in containers. Okra grows well in pots because the plants don’t take up a lot of space, and you can enjoy homegrown okra! Many people assume that they cannot grow okra because they …
Many people wish they could create landscape designs. But often, they don’t feel confident that they have the necessary skills. This belief leads them on a search for a professional landscape designer. But while it seems that a landscape design requires an expert professional, that is not always the case. …
