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Neoregelia Bromeliad Care Tips

Tip the adult plant out of its pot and gently cut the offsets loose using a very sharp, clean knife or clippers.
Be careful to give the offshoots enough roots to survive. If you cut it separate from all its roots, it will die.
Put the offshoots into their new pots. Cover them with a plastic bag for several days to hold in the moisture and help them get a good start. Be sure to set up a wireframe or a support rod inside the bag to prevent it touching the vegetation of your new plant.

Growing Bell Peppers For Gardening Beginners

So you’re interested in growing bell peppers! We find bell peppers in red, green, yellow and purple, plus they are loaded vitamin A and C. Another nice fact is that the crop cycle is not very long. In fact, you can harvest them in about 10-12 weeks with multiple peppers per plant.

Plants

Asiatic Lily Care: How To Grow Asiatic Lilies

Beginners new to planting bulbs find Asiatic lilies among the easiest of all lilies to play with.
They are the first lilies of the season to flower, and they multiply fast. With simple care, these temperate northern hemisphere natives, grow and do well in USDA hardiness zones 10 all the way to 3.

Growing Food

Plant, Grow, and Harvest Horseradish

Horseradish root is exceptionally easy to grow, highly productive, and has a lot of other uses beyond making wasabi. It’s great for clearing sinuses. It’s the key ingredient in cocktail sauce. I personally couldn’t imagine eating roast beef without it.

Container Gardening | Houseplants

On Self Watering – Sub Irrigation Planters.

Self-watering planters or Sub-Irrigation planters (SIP) are the perfect choices for anyone wanting to take up container gardening. However, self-watering pots are ideally suited for busy individuals, forgetful people and those who have not had good luck with plants in the past.

On fertilizing your vegetable garden

New gardeners and even some veteran gardeners add far more garden fertilizer than their vegetables need. And in many cases when plants are struggling, fertilizer is not the issue. Or sometimes, garden fertilizer is the issue – too much of it.

Fertilizer | Soil & Seeds

Coffee Grounds for Plants

You’ve heard that adding coffee grounds to your compost speeds decomposition and adds much-needed nitrogen to the compost. Coffee grounds are good for plants in the garden. We explain why and identify specific vegetables, plants and flowers that can benefit. In a related article, read about coffee grounds and other techniques to improve soil. Coffee…

Fruit | Garden Landscaping | Growing Food | Yard and Patio

Build Your Own Vertical Strawberry Planter (Quick Version)

Laura from Garden Answer shows us how to make vertical strawberry planters. She walks you through step by step, showing what materials to use, what potting soil and fertilizer is needed and how to hang the finished product.

Fertilizer | Soil & Seeds

Improve your Gardening Soil for a Vibrant Garden

Do you want a rich, vibrant garden? This super collection of five items can supercharge your soil and improve garden growth. The solution may be hiding in your kitchen! Discover how fish bones and egg shells invigorate your marigolds. Put those messy banana peels and epsom salt.

Plants

How To Grow and Care For Bougainvillea

So let’s try and give a general overview of growing Bougainvillea, its care, blooming, light, water, soil, origin and more…

Houseplants | Indoor Care and Tips

The Indoor Cane Corn Plant

Summary: Dracaena fragrans corn plant, grown in many forms, usually multiple plants of staggered heights, hardy indoors when acclimated. Fragrans is the solid green variety of Dracaena family we often call the corn plant or cornstalk dracaena. Some of its other common names include mass cane or Massangeana cane.The fragrans flower gave the plant its…

Plants | Water Gardens

4 Simple Things for a Healthy Pond

I’ve tried hard to come up with things that people can do for their ponds that get them the most bang for their buck, simple tasks that can be done in just a few minutes of spare time or, at most, less than a full afternoon, with big yields in terms of overall pond health.

Plants | Water Gardens

Is a Pond Aerator the Silver Bullet for Your Pond Problems?

The bubbles rising from your aerator not only circulate the water, but also break up the surface tension as they break the surface. This has a few beneficial effects. First, it prevents some water-walking insects from taking advantage of your pond. The most important of these, of course, is mosquitos, which can otherwise use your pond to lay eggs.

Plants | Water Gardens

Dealing with Duckweed in Your Pond

Once you’ve got the majority of the weeds out of the pond, though, you can go on to the second part of your attack, which will keep the duckweed from taking over again.

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Nutrient

Neoregelia Bromeliad Care Tips

Growing Bell Peppers For Gardening Beginners

Asiatic Lily Care: How To Grow Asiatic Lilies

Plant, Grow, and Harvest Horseradish

On Self Watering – Sub Irrigation Planters.

On fertilizing your vegetable garden

Coffee Grounds for Plants

Build Your Own Vertical Strawberry Planter (Quick Version)

Improve your Gardening Soil for a Vibrant Garden

How To Grow and Care For Bougainvillea

The Indoor Cane Corn Plant

4 Simple Things for a Healthy Pond

Is a Pond Aerator the Silver Bullet for Your Pond Problems?

Dealing with Duckweed in Your Pond

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