Cucumber vines can be enormous plants with long vines that take up a lot of vegetable garden space. They also do surprisingly well in containers. You can even grow cucumberes in a 5 gallon bucket! By choosing the correct pots and right cucumber variety, you can easily get an abundant harvest from just a small amount…
You buy a beautiful flat of plants at the store, bring them home, put them in your garden and…they wilt?! This phenomenon is called transplant shock. Today I’m showing you how to minimize transplant shock when you’re hardening seedlings by following a process called “hardening off.” Whether you started your own seedlings indoors from seed…
Gardening is fun and rewarding, but if you’re new to growing vegetables it can be a bit intimidating. There are so many types of vegetables, where do you start? Don’t worry – today I’m showing you the easiest vegetables for beginners to grow. These vegetables are not only very easy to grow. They are also…
I had a lot of failed compost piles before I learned how to make good compost more quickly and effectively. Learn from my failures and discover how to start composting for beginners! Many home compost piles suffer from two fatal flaws: they are too dry and don’t have enough matter. For a compost pile that gets…
Plants are frequently described as needing full sun, partial sun, partial shade, or full shade. But what do these terms mean? Discover the difference between each gardening term in this quick guide. You’ll also find lists of popular vegetables and herbs that need full sun and partial sun to grow in your home garden. Plants…