Gardening
Seed starting for a vegetable garden with children
Starting seeds for a vegetable garden is a very simple affair. And with children the simpler the better. With my seed germinating method they cannot go wrong. The ingredients are simple - almost every house has them on hand - and children find it fascinating to see the seeds grow before their eyes. You can certainly use a commercial seed raising mixture and set it all out perfectly but I find children
Write nowvote now: Shade or Ornamental - (view results)
Shade
by mtkiff
Obviously, everyone's front-yard is the same and that would mean that a great shade tree would be the
Ornamental
by Glory Lennon
The funny thing about trees is they are all ornamental by nature. They are all beautiful wonders, Nature's
Annuals
- Gardening: What is an annual?
- Growing amaranth
- Best white flowering annuals for your garden
- Growing petunia
- Moon flowers and morning glory: Flowers all day
- Growing marigold
- Spring planting: When to plant annual plants
Trees & Shrubs
- Growing azalea
- Tips for growing blueberry and huckleberry bushes
- Best brands of chain saws
- Best trees for hedge planting
- How to plant a bare-root tree
- How to grow madrone trees
- How to grow acai berries
Vegetables & Herbs
- How to grow dual-purpose vegetables
- How to plant raspberries
- How to grow watermelons
- How to harvest broccoli
- How to grow summer and winter lettuces in your garden
- How to grow and harvest loofah
- What is tomato blight?
Weeds & Pests
- How to naturally control the whitefly
- Natural insect and pest control agents for your garden
- How to use baking soda for powdery mildew
- How to conquer tomato pests and other problems
- Product reviews: Safer Yard & Garden Insect Killer
- How you can choke weeds out of your garden
- Environmental benefits of organic gardening.
Aloe vera is a very common houseplant in colder climates and often grown as a garden perennial in warmer ones. It has also escaped
While preparing my flower and vegetable garden beds for the soon to come planting season, I found muscles or rather aching muscles
by Glory Lennon
There is nothing so soothing as the sound of a gentle breeze blowing through the long slender leaves of the stately Maiden Grass and
by Theresa Rose
When considering the varieties of houseplants that can't be killed, the biggest consideration is the conditions you have to place
Writing Assignments
- Houseplants
- Houseplants: How to care for the silver dollar plant
- Book reviews: Plantepedia, by Maggie Stuckey
- How to trim ginseng plant leaves to make them grow smaller
- Houseplants: How to care for sundew plants
- Houseplants: How to care for jasmine plants
- Houseplants: How to care for desert rose plants
- Houseplants: How to grow fuchsia plants
- Houseplants: How to care for African violets
- The proper care of houseplants: Knowing when and how much water to give
- Perennials
- Growing tips: All-Shape Red Tulips
- Growing tips: Altruist Daffodils
- Growing tips: Blueberry Cream Tulips
- Growing tips: Carnegie Giant Fragrant Hyacinths
- Growing tips: Chromacolor Daffodils
- Growing tips: Copper Queen Daffodils
- Growing tips: Czardas Daffodils
- Growing tips: Darwinhybrid Tulips
- Growing tips: Derringer Daffodils
- Growing tips: Double Beauty of Apeldoorn Tulips
- Growing tips: Fire Queen Tulips
- Growing tips: Flower Record Giant Dutch Crocuses
- Growing tips: Fondant Hyacinth
- Growing tips: Fortissimo Daffodils
- Growing tips: Fosteriana Tulips
- Growing tips: Fragrant Breeze Daffodils
- Growing tips: French Lace Tulips
- Growing tips: Giant Glory of the Snow
- Growing tips: Grand Soleil d'Or Daffodils
- Growing tips: Holland Baby Tulips
- Growing tips: Hotpants Tulips
RSS FeedDifference of opinion? Debate now.
- Trees & Shrubs
- Are shade or ornamental trees better for front-yard landscaping?
- Vegetables & Herbs
- Which is easier to grow: Leaf lettuce or head lettuce?
- Weeds & Pests
- Should you use pesticides to control garden weeds?
