How To Become a Master Gardener
This is the “Growing Food” section. In this section, our goal is to show you the best gardening practices to grow your food at home.
Why cultivate food at home? Growing food is a rewarding gardening experience, not to mention the possibility of saving money and providing you and your family with the option of eating nutritious organic food.
This category can be the most gratifying for a gardener because you can be responsible for growing your vegetables, fruits, and herbs for food seasoning, from seedling to harvesting. It can be a very educational activity for children. You also have the option of making fruits and vegetables organic (and being sure of what you eat).
If you haven’t started growing your vegetables, herbs, and fruits, we definitely encourage you and look forward to guiding you with our posts through the whole process, from planting to harvesting. When you start growing your food, you become much more aware of gardening that will also be beneficial to your garden, such as composting, rainwater harvesting, getting rid of pests organically such as using ladybugs, preserving methods after harvest, etc. You can start here, in this guide that explains How to Start a Garden: Gardening for Beginners.
After checking your new USDA hardiness zone using your ZIP code, get ready to turn your indoor space into a seed oasis! Follow our guidelines to learn how and when to start seeds indoors.
Also, save space when creating a vegetable garden and learn what vegetables grow on a trellis.
Our step-by-step articles and videos will lead you through the whole planting, growing, and caring for your crops process, from seed to harvest. In our writings, we look at the best ways to grow a range of crops, such as onions, potatoes, carrots, eggplant, lettuce, radish, various types of pumpkins, strawberries, and so on. Gardening tips are also included to promote optimal growth and output.
Explore the best shade-tolerant vegetables that grow well in the garden.
Are you prepared for a memorable harvest? Discover The Garden Style’s tips for harvesting your crops at the optimal time for optimum flavor and production. This category offers reliable advice on the best time to harvest your crops and how to do it for optimal quality and yield. This will help you ensure that your vegetables are ripe, juicy, and pleasant when you eat them. Learn the finest practices for growing, caring for, and harvesting from our experts.
Finally, determine which fertilizers are most beneficial for each crop. You’ll learn what nutrients your crops need to grow strong and healthy, as well as how to provide them. Our website will teach you how to create and apply natural fertilizers such as organic compost as well as appropriate commercial fertilizers to your crops.
From growing dwarf mango trees, Armenian cucumber, hydroponic tomatoes, and Fairy Tale eggplant to harvesting Walla Walla onions and lettuce without killing the plant, we got you covered. Let’s get started on cultivating our own food.
How do you know when potatoes are ready to harvest? Though planting potatoes is easy, knowing when to harvest potatoes is not that straightforward. Potato plants change appearance when they are “ripe”. So, as harvest time approaches, potato plants change in appearance. This change is easy to appreciate. What do potato plants look like when
In this article, we will talk about what to plant in June in the garden and the care and maintenance you should do during that month. June is a month of a lot of activity in the garden, with a lot of new crops that will soon bear fruit. In June, we will continue a
Growing Cilantro (Coriandrum sativum L) is not an easy task, as it is a bit tricky to get cilantro to grow in some types of soil. That’s why, in this article, we will explain how to grow cilantro in water. You will see that growing cilantro in water is the best way to grow and
Today we will see how to grow cucumbers in Florida and the whole process of growing cucumbers, from planting to harvesting. The cucumber is one of the regulars of our summer garden, which besides being refreshing, is quite productive. Cucumbers should be planted in the spring after the risk of frost has gone. Then, there
May is here when you have all the possibilities to enrich your vegetable garden because you can sow new seeds directly in the soil, transplant the seedlings, plant the new seedlings, and grow the flowers. In this article, we are going to explore all that we can do with the sowing of vegetables, and aromatic
In this article we are going to talk about what to plant in April in the vegetable garden, what are the main maintenance tasks you have to perform during this month, and some tips for the care of your fruit trees. When spring arrives, we want to take advantage of the longer days, embellish our
Wasabi (Wasabia japonica), also known as Japanese horseradish, is a plant native to Japan, cultivated mainly for its thick underground stem. Learn all about how to grow Wasabi in this article. This rhizome is highly prized in Japanese cuisine, and its cultivation is increasing in the West as well. The Japanese production of wasabi does
Many times our readers ask “Can you grow tomatoes indoors?”. And yes, you can grow tomatoes indoors. One way to do it and get a good yield of tomatoes is to grow hydroponic tomatoes. This way of growing tomatoes indoors, in a greenhouse, is one of the most chosen around the world because it is
Its scientific name is Beta vulgaris L. var. cicla, Swiss chard is a plant native to Europe, widely cultivated in temperate zones around the world. Swiss chard has a tuberous root, unlike its native plant. Its leaves are light green and very large, while its stems are white, yellow, or red depending on the Swiss
In February, we keep alert for the care of our garden, because it is in this month when we will continue the work we did in the garden in January, with the care of the sowing that is already in progress and the cultivation of new plants that we want to plant to take advantage
