Vegetable Garden + Home Garden = My Garden
Vegetable Garden + Home Garden = My Garden
Gardening Articles
Making Compost The Easy Way Sooner or later gardeners come across the word “compost.” As easy as it is to say, compost has a reputation for being difficult to master. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. If I can make hot, 160-degree compost during an winter, you can too – no matter where you grow […]
Growing Avocados The Easy Way Avocados are healthy and delicious but can be on the expensive side to buy. But did you know that you can grow an avocado from the stone in the middle of an avocado purchased from the shop? All you need to do is put it suspended over a jar of
NEW SEASONS POTATOES New seasons seed potatoes are now available from a number of garden centres. They are too early you may say but even down Southland the first varieties; Agria, Jersey Bennes, Nadine, and Rocket are now in store. I would presume the same varieties will be available in most areas and it certainly
Gardening with raised beds Raised beds for gardening is a great way to make gardening easy and at the same time produce a good range of vegetables or flowers. The advantages as I see them are; less bending, tidy gardens, attractive gardens, less weeding, no digging, superior produce or plants, ease of watering, great drainage,
Germinating Seeds There are two basic places to germinate seeds, one is where they will ultimately grow and mature the other is in suitable containers to germinate and then to transplant out into open ground or larger containers latter on. Firstly it is always best to plant any seed in the spot where it will
Three Lettuces – Keeping vegetables for longer Three identical lettuces were purchased at the same time and stored for ten days in three different ways. Check out the methods and results! From left to right: 1. Stored at room temperature 2. Stored in the fridge. 3. Stored in a cup of water like cut flowers.
Setting up a worm farm A comprehensive step by step guide to setting up and looking after a worm farm. Every garden would benefit from a worm farm whatever it’s size, it’s a fantastic way to recycle used vegetable scraps and so much more. I will cover worm diet later, but seriously, if you haven’t
Acid or Alkaline? What pH means for your soil The pH of things is one of the mysteries of daily life. It comes up when the conversation turns to beer making, swimming pool water, dairy products or garden soil. This degree of acidity or alkalinity, is expressed as a number is called pH. What’s really
Calcium & Minerals for your soil Calcium is the fuel that feeds the microbes in our soils allowing their numbers to increase by the billions, so long as soil conditions are congenial – Moisture, temperature, decaying matter, etc. Calcium keeps the soil alkaline, the most common state for all plant life except for the species which