Discoveries In My Home Herb Garden And Talkin Dirt On Chives Herb Plants

November 17th, 2010 by admin


You can dive into growing a home herb garden in sublime blissful ignorance.  Especially if you choose chives plants as your path to grow herb garden plantings. I speak from realistic experience. Despite many missteps and blunders, somehow my chives plants were flourishing and bountiful.
 
I admit a happy chance landed those chives plants into my life some years ago. Yes, I stumbled into beginning my own home herb garden by planting chives plants aplenty! Usually people are led into planting an herb garden by their love of cooking with herbs. Nope. Not me. While an avid novice gardener, herbs were absolutely absent in my cooking. But, an encounter with chives plants in my herb home garden changed all that. The entire experience drew me to introduce you to chives as an herb plant for your garden and share my tips and discoveries gardening with chives herbs taught me.… Read More

Gardening Catalogs: A Great Way to Shop for Plants

September 3rd, 2010 by admin


Gardening catalogs are an excellent way for gardeners to buy anything their heart desires – or anything their garden requires – without ever leaving their home. Gardening catalogs offer a wider variety than most garden centers and are often cheaper. You can order anything you want or need and have it delivered right to your door, ready for use.


The biggest plus about catalogs is their great variety. Gardening catalogs remuneration gardeners with a wider selection of seeds and plants than can be found anywhere else. A gardening catalogue gives you the luxury of viewing apiece plant type all at once, allowing you to make comparisons and choose the type that will work saint for you. You can explore the acquirable plants, choosing plants based on their suitability to your climate or USDA hardiness zone.


Gardening catalogs are a treasure trove of information for both beginners and… Read More

Container Gardening Tips For Amazing Plants, Flowers, & Edibles – The 7 Step Process (For Great Results)

September 2nd, 2010 by admin


It’s often overlooked that Container Gardening can be a life long passion, a creative and artist hobby, and a simple and effective way to create a stylish, clean and inviting home, a great way to take healthy organic foods, and an extraordinary way to connect with nature.

So if you’ve got itchy green fingers, and want an extraordinary collection of plants and flowers, fruits, vegetables and herbs – just simply follow these key Container Gardening Tips!

The 7 Steps Process to Great Container Gardening

1. Get Your Lighting Right

2. Choose Your Soil

3. Monitor humidity levels

4. Water as required

5. Check temperature

6. How to Choose the right container

7. Food & Nutrients

Lighting

Via photosynthesis, plants absorb sunlight and carbon dioxide to create food. As such light is a very important factor. Try and keep your container plants and flowers near a natural source of light… Read More