23rd November 2010
Growing Heirloom Tomatoes
What’s an heirloom tomato? An heirloom tomato is a variety that is open pollinated, may be several hundred years old, generally passed down through generations, and although there may be some variety in the results because i...
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17th November 2010
The most cost effective way to have a quantity of potting soil for your use is to make it yourself. The following is information on how to do that.
Soil.
A more appropriate term is soil media because the material being sold as potting soil is actu...
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04th November 2010
This is my favorite aspect of growing plants. I am perpetually fascinated by propagation and at the age of 8, my grandmother and an aunt gave me cuttings to root and I was hooked into a life of hobby/obsession/business.
Starting seeds.
Different spec...
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28th October 2010
This is an article on correctly feeding houseplants and plants in general. Correct feeding reduces waste of fertilizer and build up of damaging salts in the potting soil. Some plants are actually harmed by incorrect feeding.
Fertilizers come in a confu...
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