YIELD - Garden Guide
Prune And Trellis Your Tomato Plants To Achieve Higher Yields
For many home gardeners, the tomato crop is frequently a source of pride. Gardeners frequently compete to see who can grow the earliest ripe fruit, the biggest or most flavorful tomato. The desire for ideal tomatoes sends many...
Sampler of Rare Fruits for Fun or Profit
Here is a sampler of unusual fruits showing up on temperate climate farms and in nurseries. Their rarity in your location, of course, depends on your growing region.Sea Buckthorn (Hipprophae rhamnoides)A very productive northern f
Gardening for Seniors and the Physically Challenged
Are you in a wheelchair, and long to dig in the dirt and make flowering beauty and grow far more zucchini than you can give away? Or are your knees just starting to age and even though you've loved gardening all your life,...
History Of Blackberry Plants
Blackberries were perceived by the ancient cultures as being a wild plant, and historical accounts for a backyard culture of blackberry bushes are few. The Greeks used the blackberry as a remedy for Gout, and the Romans made a...
Raised Bed Basics
Although it does require more frequent watering due to higher plant density, a raised bed is more effective overall. It results in higher yields for the amount of water applied, compared with larger areas watered in traditional...
Tinctures Made From Fresh Herbs
The principles behind making tinctures are to obtain the spiritual and physical quintessence of the plant. This is done by using the powers of ethyl alcohol to dissolve and preserve the herb you are using.The material used to...
Tips on Making Your Own Hydroponics System
If you're going to build a hydroponics system, it's best to start with a container to use as a reservoir. For homemade systems, it's best to use a fish tank or a similar object. Once you find a suitable reservoir, you must...
Tissue Culture Applications To Improve Crops of Strawberries, Raspberries, and Blackberries
When agricultural crops are reproduced by division after several generations, frequently a decline occurs in qualities such as vigor, yield, disease resistance, plant and fruit appearance and uniformity of size or shape. This...
Post Germination Bonsai Growing Tips
Well after providing germination instructions for the seeds, I felt the need to add some information on how to continue once your seeds have germinated. Now, the following instructions will need adjustments depending on your...
Why You Should Have A Home Vegetable Garden
There are more reasons today than ever before why the owner of a small place should have his, or her, own vegetable garden. The days of home weaving, home cheese-making and home meat-packing, are gone. With a thousand and one...
Fall Tree Colors - Sweet Gum
Liqudambar styraciflua
Family - Liqudambar - GumThe Sweet Gum tree sports reddish burgundy leaves in the fall and is one to the prettiest autumn deciduous trees. The nearly star shaped leaves has five to seven lobes, is smooth...
Tomato Seeds
In America, tomatoes are considered one of the most popular garden vegetables. It is a tender, warm-season vegetable that grows best in summer. It is an easy vegetable to grow and has a better harvest when grown in the garden...
Getting The Most Out Of Your Hydroponics
Hydroponics is one of those subjects that few know muchm if anything about; is rife with misinformation and a minefield of useless products.Water temperature - Your nutrient solution should feel COLD at 21oC NOT WARM. 21...
How To Grow Organic Walnuts - One Of The Top10 Super-Foods
Walnuts are an excellent source of plant based omega 3 fatty acids, known for fighting heart disease. They are also packed with micronutrients, antioxidants and plant sterol, which lower cholesterol.
Walnuts also provide...
History Of Olive Trees
Olive trees, Olea europaea, are the oldest fruit trees and certainly are one of the most important fruit trees in history. Olive tree culture has been closely connected to the rise and fall of Mediterranean empires and...
Growing Vegetables In A Small Area
For anyone accustomed to the notion that a vegetable garden must be a fairly large affair - its rows stretching fifteen or twenty feet at a minimum, the concept of crops pushing up from a small container or appearing to burst...
Growing Asparagus
Asparagus is a crop that you have to be patient for, but if you love the vegetable, it is well worth the wait. Asparagus is a perennial plant and can produce spears for up to 25 years if tended well.As it is going to be a...
Tips For Growing Fruit Trees
Almost everyone can grow one variety or another of fruit trees in their backyard. Here are some tips on growing fruit trees:Plant fruit trees about 20 feet apart and in a sunny location.Plant more than one variety of a fruit....
Advice To Homeowners Before Landscaping
How many times have you gotten excited about a project and rushed into it only to find you forgot something? Landscaping takes considerable time, effort, and money
so you want to do it right the first time. There are a few,...
An Introduction To Indoor Plant Grow Lights
There are basically two types of grow lights used in horticulture. These are:High Intensity Discharge Lights (HID) - These come in two types, the Metal Halide Grow Light (MH) and the High Pressure Sodium Grow Light (HPS)Metal...