Category: Gardening
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Pruning plants for better growth
Maximize Your Garden Yield with Pruning Techniques Pruning stimulates your herbs and can make them grow bushier, allowing you to harvest more and make your small space garden more efficient. Pruning to remove dying, diseased, or too-dense plant leaves will improve your plant health. Utilizing this technique in your garden also reduces opportunities for pests…
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Why You Should Save Seeds in the Garden
Benefits of Saving Seeds Nature is unpredictable. You never know when an unprecedented event will occur and the aftereffects it will cause. Disease outbreaks, extreme weather, geographical issues, pests, or even politics can suddenly impact the supply chain and leave you without essentials if you aren’t prepared. Growing your food supply increases food security, self-sufficiency,…
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Growing Your Food Supply: Fall Crops to Plant MidSummer
Do you want to live a more home-centered lifestyle where family truly comes first? Whether you are continuing planting from the spring or starting a new fall garden, growing your food supply is an investment in your home and health. The potential money savings are an obvious benefit, but increasing your self-sufficiency provides a sense…
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Save Money! You Only Need These Essentials for Indoor Growing
Are you looking to start seeds indoors, or want a complete indoor growing setup but aren’t sure where to start? I’ve put together this list of basic minimum essentials for an indoor grow setup that’s extremely budget-friendly. This list will be everything you need, nothing you don’t, and gave me great results for two years…
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How to Grow and Harvest Sunflowers in Containers
Easy Start Plant Guide for How to Grow Sunflowers in Containers Lifespan Sun, Soil, and Water Care Planting and Germination Annual Full sun (>8 hours daily) and rich, nutrient-heavy soil with frequent watering Poor transplant candidate prefers direct sowing. Fast germination and growth Sunflower Gardening Profile Why grow sunflowers in containers? Sunflowers are a great…
