Home & Garden > Gardening (Other) The importance of recycling and composting in the garden

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The are three reasons why it's important to recycle and compost in the garden. The first reason is that it's the best thing for the garden. If you have a kitchen garden, and harvest vegetables and herbs for the dinner table, then you're constantly removing fertility from the garden when you pull up your crops. Even if you hav... More..

Home & Garden > Gardening (Other) How to start gardening early in the year

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One of the main problems with gardening in a temperate climate is that the gardeners tends to be all warmed up long before the garden. Whilst the garden is still sleeping through the winter chill, the gardener is cozy inside - reading gardening books and thumbing through seed catalogs, hatching new plans for the garden this s... More..

Home & Garden > Vegetables & Herbs Perennial fruits and vegetables: Backyard gardens that keep giving back

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Botanically-speaking a perennial plant is one that keeps growing from year to year, unlike annuals or biennials that complete their lifecycle in one or two years and then die. In kitchen garden terms, a perennial is a plant that is allowed to keep growing. Many familiar kitchen garden plants are treated as annuals' for simpli... More..

Home & Garden > Gardening (Other) How to plant avocado pits

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Planting an avocado pit is a great project for children, and also a very cheap and easy way to grow a beautiful, evergreen houseplant. The avocado pear is a tropical fruit, and if left to its own devices grows into a very large tree, and so isn't the best choice if you are trying to grow a plant that produces edible fruit in ... More..

Home & Garden > Vegetables & Herbs Permaculture basics: Layers

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In gardening terms, permaculture is a way of working with nature to decrease inputs (including gardening effort) whilst maximizing outputs (including enjoyment). One of the basic tools in the permaculture design process is layers, also known as stacking. In a natural forest, many plants occupy different ecological niches. ... More..

Home & Garden > Vegetables & Herbs The pepper plant and growing your own peppers

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Most cultivated peppers (both hot and sweet) are Capsicum annum. There are many varieties, differing in heat, color, shape and size. The familiar green bell pepper is only the tip of the iceberg. Pepper plants have dark green leaves and white, star-shaped flowers. Many fruit prolifically, and the fruits change color as the... More..

Home & Garden > Annuals Growing amaranth

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Ornamental amaranths are easy to grow, tall plants that will bring an exotic note to your flower borders. Half-hardy annuals, they should be sown thinly where they are to flower, in spring. They can also be sown earlier indoors in pots, for transplanting outside when the danger of frost has passed. Amaranths like to be gro... More..

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