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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

Vegetarian Gardening in Tropical Climates
Perhaps the best way to have a healthy, vegetarian diet is to grow as much of your own food as possible. This ensures that you know that no insecticides have been used on the plants. You are also able to grow particular...

Why Is Organic Farming Bad – If It Is?
Why is organic farming bad, if it is? We have been told that organic farming is good for our health. Proponents have trumpeted the message that organic farming is good for the environment. How could it possibly be bad?It seems...

Tips For Creating New Plants For Free
One of the many marvels of gardening is that you can make a gorgeous and productive garden with very little financial outlay. It will take longer than going to your nearest nursery and stocking up with everything you want. But...

Gardening The Pure Way With Hydroponics
People enjoy the beauty of plants in a garden, and everyone can appreciate the great food that is grown in backyard gardens. But what if you live in an apartment, and do not have any "land" in which to garden? Do you want to...

Growing Fruits Using Hydroponics
Would you like to try growing your own fresh fruits year round, but live in an area where, due to cold temperatures, snow or poor soil, you are unable to do so outdoors? Instead, why not try hydroponics, a form of gardening in...

The Secret To Healthier Plants? Let's Ask My Grandfather
My Grandfather was an old school farmer from way back who depended on his crops for his living. He, like farmers then and now, knew that the secret to optimum yield and plant health starts in the soil. If the soil was just...

Tomato Container Gardens
Tomato container gardens are an alternative to a traditional tomato garden. Tomatoes are one of the most popular vegetables, well in this case fruits, of people around the world. They can be used in so many ways, in a salad or...

Gardening For Senior Citizens
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 The Strawberry And The Strawberry Tree
It is difficult to trace the ancient history of the strawberry plant or strawberry tree, because there are so many different, complex, undefined species, and they have evolved in so many different places and countries.Pliny...