i dont have a garden but i want to grow some stuff advice please?

ComputerGeek asks: i dont have a garden but i want to grow some stuff advice please?
because i dont have a garden ive just bought this grow bulb i want to know will it grow things like strawberries, pea pods, tomatoes that sort of thing

the light is HPS 400w low energy Grow light, i’m going to set it up in my unused garage its clean and theres plenty of space also it is heated so its not cold, i have big plastic boxes to plant them in and just bought some organic soil

the garage is the only option i have i don’t even have a driveway and the back yard doesnt get much sunlight i am surrounded by houses all i have is the garage and my house thats it.

will this light be powerful enough to grow plants ive mentioned also any growing advice you may have i.e how long should i give them light that sort of thing

if i cant grow the plants i mentioned what can i grow???? there must be something it is a grow light after all

i have heard of people having indoor gardens and indoor ponds believe it or not i do think this will be possible
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huh marijuana, really?????? i thought they needed UV … never mind i want to do something different to most people ok i have no other choice other than to grow fruit n stuff in my garage but it is different to most people that grow what should be in the garden n i dont really have much space i’ve got steps up to my house and just past the steps is the street cant grow anything there ooo well this is something i want to try sounds like a cool experiment

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Answer by 1 bite is worth a 1000 Barks
You can use any available space, I have put pepper and tomato plants along my walkway and along the front and side of the house. Just like planting flowers. You can grow just about anything. They also look great as decorative plants so it don’t look tacky or anything. I have seen people do this with a fall garden as well replanting the area with greens for a fall crop.

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Hello, I am trying grow an organic garden?

Black Princezz asks: Hello, I am trying grow an organic garden?
I dislike go to whole market and purchase expensive veggie purchase , so a boy gave me Great idea saying “you really don’t have go since you are vegetrian you will need a lot of veggie and fruits” “what about grow your own garden?” uh?! GOOD IDEA! I am into both Vegetrian / Organic and would like to grow my own garden.
But I need an advice from ya’ll who did the growing of your own GARDEN in YOUR YARD, is it as easy you think? Did flies ,worms, or Bugs often get into them ? what the special thing s I must buy to keep them off and to keep other human beings from stealing? How often do you have to water them?

Please do tell your story and detailed questions, if you wanna..
You can tell me the name link of website where i can get packaged seeds (growth) from?

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Answer by Stephen B
you do have alot of questions/goto organicgareningguru,com/gardenzone.info/etc. /just look up organic gardening/ but, after all your hard work and one of your buddies wants to steal your first tomatoe that you were going to pick the next morning “SHOOT IM”

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Not everyone has a natural green thumb and knows instinctively how to create a beautiful garden. With today’s sources of information about gardening, the knowledge you need is at your fingertips. There is lots of information out there about planting vegetables, herbs, flowering plants, annuals and perennials. Your local garden centre will provide you with great sources of information and help for your garden. Ask the experienced gardeners in your family or amongst your friends for help and advice. To get inspiration for the design and layout of your garden consider reading gardening books and magazines. Gardening shows will give you great ideas, tips and information about how to grow a green, healthy garden. See what works for your neighbours (and what doesn’t) and then make decisions about the types of plants to grow that you know can be successful in the soil and climate you have.

Spend some time planning out the design of your garden once you have some ideas down on paper. The design you choose will depend on your goals for the garden and what you plan to use it for. Think about what will grown in your climate easily when you determine your design. Don’t forget to consider the soil and drainage on your property. A good design plan is realistic, cost effective and flexible. Consider whether you will be redesigning your entire property or just a section. Do you need to use aggregates and stone? Do you need rocks, flagstones, sod or grass seed? Is mulch or soil necessary? Will your design require you to add a water feature like a pond or waterfall? Having a clear plan will allow you to cost out all aspects of the design and have a clear goal before you begin..

Budget is always an important consideration when undergoing any project. Before you decide the type of gardening job you want to tackle you need to set a realistic budget. Not only do you want to make a budget you also want to stick to it. Staying within budget may mean that you need to find materials on sale. Check weekly flyers for your local garden centres and purchase items that are on sale. You need to balance cost with purchasing healthy plants though because if you buy unhealthy plants it will be expensive to replace them. Unhealthy plants can spread diseases to the other plants in your garden which can cause you a lot of pain and headache. Balance your needs by keeping budget in check while also purchasing quality products..

Once you start looking for garden tips you will start to find them everywhere. Choosing plants that weeds hate is always a great idea that will help you cut down on the labour and maintenance needed to keep your garden weed free. Ground hugging plants naturally suppress weeds. Sometimes colourful plants are hard to maintain and grow so a great alternative is to use colour in other ways in your garden, such as through colourful planting boxes and pots. To keep your garden looking neat you can use border edging which will also keep invasive plants under control. You can keep your plants healthy by preparing them for dry spells by mixing water-strong granules into the top 10cm of soil. To make your lawn easier to maintain consider replacing part of it with hardwood decking, gravel or paving and then planting plants along the edges. There are numerous tips and advice out there to help you keep your garden healthy..

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Grow a Beautiful Garden the Water Wise Way

Grow a Beautiful Garden the Water Wise Way

Grow a beautiful garden the water wise way

Saving water and enjoying the beauty and environmental benefits of plants are not only possible, but easy says the American Association of Nurserymen (AAN). “Water Wise” gardening is built on some basic, commonsense principles:

Planning a water wise garden or landscape is as easy and fun-as planning any type of garden. Talk to the professionals at your local center/landscape firm to see which plants will do well in your area. You may be surprised to find that some very beautiful, colorful plants are low on water consumption-and they may fit into your landscape perfectly.

Group together plants that require the same amount of water. Plant trees and shrubs to provide shade to cool buildings, air conditioning units, patios, decks, and other landscape features.  Shelter container plants by moving them to shady areas. Spike or aerate lawns to insure maximum water penetration. Control weeds which compete with useful plants for water.

Soil improvement is another easy and beneficial step in building a water wise garden. Soil that is well prepared at the time of planting influences the plant’s initial development and yields the best results. And plants placed in the proper soil will be healthier, often needing less water.

Soil characteristics include texture, structure, depth, and nutrients. To find out more about your soil content, test your soil with the following garden products: Accugrow Soil Test Kit or the Sunleaves Three-Way Meter.  

Efficient irrigation is a critical part of water wise gardening. Your irrigation system can be simple, such as a hand-held hose, or elaborate, such as an in-ground sprinkler system. Consider a drip water conservation system, which can save up to 60% of water used by sprinkler irrigation. Whatever you choose, make sure you plan your watering to get best results.

Deep, infrequent watering, promotes root growth and is the wisest use of water and encourages strong rooting. This provides greater tolerance to dry spells.  Water early in the day, and on less windy days, to reduce evaporation loss. The ideal time is from dawn to 9:00 a.m.   Turn off sprinklers before water is wasted as runoff into gutters and streets.

Mulching is always a benefit to your garden and can help prevent soil erosion and evaporation, conserving the water that is available and keeping your plants healthy and strong.

Maintaining your water wise garden means learning how to water all over again. You may find that watering less means having more time to sit back and enjoy your garden. Generally, plants should be watered less often and for a long period of time. Drip, soaker, or deep root watering promotes healthy plants and less water use.

Follow these handy watering tips from AAN, and you’ll soon be started on your own environmentally sound garden or landscape.  For garden products mentioned in this article, please visit http://www.spray-n-growgardening.com

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question about miracle grow organic gardening soil?

leitharenea asks: question about miracle grow organic gardening soil?
I have a container garden that I planted a couple of weeks ago. I bought this miracle grow orgain gardening soil to use when tranplanting my plants from the store containers into mine. I was replanting more plants eariler today and when I was about to open a new bag of soil, I notice it says on the back “not for use in container”. The directions say mix with native soil. My plants are looking great. I’ve got veggies and herbs planted. Am I going to kill them if I leave them this way or do I need to repot them? Please help!!!!!!!!

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Answer by ranger_co_1_75
I have used miracle grow in my pots for years. I find the plants do better with miracle than any other potting soil I have used.

Your plants will be fine.

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How easy is it to grow a vegetable garden?

bonjour asks: How easy is it to grow a vegetable garden?
I would like to start my very own vegetable garden. I have never really planted anything before so any basic tips and knowledge would be nice.

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Answer by kja63
We grow the fruits and vegetables in a farming co-op. It’s not as easy as you would think. Takes a lot of time and TLC.

But you would plant a much smaller garden than we do. Till the soil and fertilize in very early spring. Horse or chicken manure works well for fertilizer as it is “runny” and easy to spread and mix in to the dirt.

Then pick which veggies you want to grow. Decide on seeds or plants. Seeds must be started indoors for several weeks before planting. Also, not everything is planted at the same time. Things like peas go in early. Tomatoes later, when there is no risk of frost. Some veggies need stakes or cages to help contain them and promote growth.

You will need to protect your garden from “critters.” Deer can jump fences. Woodchucks can burrow under them. And birds can fly right in. So you want a fence (with boards under the ground directly below the fence bottom) that’s at least 4 feet high and a scarecrow or farm dog to protect the garden.

Next, weeding! Lots and lots of backbreaking weeding. And you may need to cross-pollinate (some corn) and fertilize. You also have to watch for bugs that get into your veggies, like aphids, worms, grubs, etc…

But in the end, the rewards outway the cost and work. Fresh veggies are wonderful.

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Can i grow an organic vegetable/fruit garden from the seeds of the fruits/vegetables that I eat?

我喜欢吃饭 asks: Can i grow an organic vegetable/fruit garden from the seeds of the fruits/vegetables that I eat?
I am interested in starting an organic food garden. Can I use the seeds already in the fruit that I buy from the store in order to start growing them or do I have to go buy seeds?

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Answer by DaLady
You can use the seeds from your food. However since they are hybreds it will be a surprize on what you get.

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How to grow garlic from garlic seed in your organic garden

How to grow garlic from garlic seed in your organic garden

 

Why does nobody grow garlic from seed? Why do we always start it from garlic cloves? Ignorance. Or rather, because gardening authors have always echoed each other’s fable, that garlic seed is always sterile. Garlic can only be grown reliably from bulbs, or rather from cloves broken from the bulb, they say. Wrong!

This is akin to the mindset by which, until the late 18th century, nobody ate runner beans because ‘everyone knew’ they were intended to be flowers. Likewise, the first man to eat a tomato in public did so as a risky stunt before an awed audience. ‘Everyone knew’ until recent times that tomatoes were poisonous.

It has taken the Japanese of late to prove that garlic bulbules, the little bulbs in the seed head, can be grown into fat garlic bulbs, as much as ten times more efficiently than using cloves. A typical garlic bulb of the kind we normally break apart to grow into more bulbs may hold little more than twelve viable cloves. But its seed head will have around 100 bulbules. Some varieties produce up to 300. Even if only half the bulbules germinate, that’s a fivefold increase in production.

The method is simplicity itself. Garlic is left to go to seed. The heads in autumn are brought indoors and stored at typical room temperature, around 65oF. In May, they are broken apart to give up to 100 little bulbules. Each bulbule is planted in a small pot in normal potting compost and reared in a greenhouse or cold frame (45oF-80oF), and kept well watered, much as you would any plant.

Those that germinate at all fatten up like onion sets and are planted out in fall. They yield big garlic bulbs next summer, indistinguishable from the type grown from cloves, it’s said. Dry garlic bulbules are far easier to store and transport than cloves. Cloves often rot or dry out over winter. But seeds can be put in the freezer in an air-tight jar, along with silica gel to reduce their moisture, and they will stay viable almost indefinitely.

Not only can they give you far more produce than cloves, they also yield you two crops, because the original mother bulb, though small, can still flavour your cooking.

Garlic has been grown for food since the dawn of Man. So, if the method is so easy, why has the notion of propagating it from seed received virtually no mention in gardening literature since the time of Pliny? (He described the method around AD70.)

True, William Cobbett in 1829 acknowledged that garlic seed was sometimes viable but, with typical perversity, he then dismissed the notion. Many farmers over the millennia must have tried the experiment. Yet it seems, most failed. Or failed to report it. Why?

Perhaps the success of this method depends on two factors which were previously not understood: the selection of the right varieties and the need to vernalise the cloves. Only hard-neck varieties of common garlic Allium sativum will reliably throw up viable seed heads and only after the cloves have been vernalised ie. over-wintered for several weeks at just above freezing point. (Today, we can do the job in a refrigerator.)

If such cloves are set out in early spring, they will often go to seed by summer. Then the seed, some of which may well be viable, can be saved and re-sown the following year in the same manner as onion seed.

The first season’s plants will each set one bulb. This can be left in the soil. Any seed head that emerges the first year must immediately be cut off at the base. The seed will be worthless. The bulb will then divide into cloves of normal appearance and habit the following year.

These cloves can be eaten – or planted to produce seed heads as above.

So how did the myth begin, that garlic seed is always sterile? Soft-neck garlic, of the sort sown from cloves in spring, will sometimes throw up seed heads the same year. But these seeds, like those of most biennials that bolt prematurely in their first year, are sterile.

And it was this soft-neck kind that farmers down the ages invariably favoured, because it stores far better over winter than the hard-neck kind. Had such farmers persisted with the hard-necked kind (or read Pliny), we might today be able to buy true garlic seed, as opposed to cloves, at any garden centre.

Do note: common garlic should not be confused with Elephant, African or great-headed garlic (Allium ampeloprasum) which frequently produces viable seed. It is not garlic at all, but a variety of leek.

Try the experiment, using a hard-necked garlic variety. If only some of your seed heads produce viable seed, you have a new and exciting way of propagating garlic that’s far more efficient than using cloves.

 

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Tips On How Plants Grow

Tips On How Plants Grow

Like any thing you can think of, whether it be people, pets or plants, their basic needs must be met to ensure a happy, healthy life.

Plants, of course, are alive, and so have both general and specific needs, depending upon the variety of plant in question.

In this article, we’ll learn about the different parts of plants – root, stem, leaf and flower – and how they work together.

Roots

Most often overlooked and neglected, the root system of any plant plays a critical role in overall plant growth, health and vigor.

The root system is responsible for supplying a plant with water, vitamins and minerals, all necessary ingredients that promote and maintain healthy vigorous growth. As the nutrients around the plant are consumed, the roots will continue to grow out and down, searching for new sources of food and water.

Gardening Tip: Adding a granular or slow-release fertilizer to the soil before you plant will ensure a steady supply of nutrients throughout a plant’s growing season, especially important for vegetables and flowering plants.

Gardening Tip: Growth above ground mirrors growth below ground. For example, if your bell pepper plant is 1 foot tall and 1 foot wide, its root system is 1 foot deep and 1 or more feet wide.

Gardening Tip: Always follow the directions for any gardening product (fertilizer or pest controls). Although if you’re not sure, using less is always safer than using too much. Using the right amount however, will help ensure consistent results.

Roots and Soil

As you may have guessed, the type of soil in your garden plays an important role in overall plant health and vigor.

In general, most plants like a loose, well-drained soil with lots of organic material. Organic material can be peat moss, shredded bark, composted or decomposed plant material, some form of manure (generally cow manure), or even worm casings or rice hulls to name a few.

Potting soil is usually some combination of the above list and may have little or no actual “dirt” in it. Organic material helps to maintain moisture content levels in the soil and helps to prevent soil compaction.

Stem

The stem, stalk or trunk is the “super highway” of the plant. It starts at ground level and supplies the food and water from the roots to the leaves and flowers or fruit.

Leaves

The leaves of a plant take the food and water from the roots through the stem and with the help of sunlight will turn the water and nutrients into energy. That energy is then sent back through the stem to the entire plant, including right back down to the roots. Natures example of Solar Energy at work.

Flowers

The flower or fruit of a plant is responsible for the reproduction of the plant. Whether it’s strawberries, lemons, tomatoes, pansies or pine-cones, their sole purpose in life is to reproduce more of their own kind.

Humans have found over time that various plants either taste good, have a nice scent or are pleasant to look at and have therefore selected out of millions of varieties just a few types to cultivate.

The Gardening Tips and Advice found throughout Your Healthy Gardens are written with the beginning gardener in mind. However, as time passes and the seasons change more and more detail will be added to help any home gardener improve their gardening skills.

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Tomato Gardening- 5 Tips To Grow These Luscious Fruits At Home

Tomato Gardening- 5 Tips To Grow These Luscious Fruits At Home

The following tips is all you need to know for growing a bountiful of beautiful tomatoes. Gardening tomatoes are not at all difficult, all it requires are some attention and care while you get started. Most tomato varieties require just the same or slightly different strategies for effective produce hence tips for gardening tomatoes is the same for all types and varieties.

The tips to be followed for gardening tomatoes, both indoors as well as outdoors are given below. They are very effective by being organic in nature so as to prevent concerns about using pesticides or herbicide in the garden

*The plant should be deep inside the gravel of the garden or the container. Make sure that the entire roots are two or three inches inside the soil. This should be ensured specially if a tomato variety is of the large type. If the tomato plants are rooted shallow they will require support or staking as it will fall over when it starts to bear fruit. The best of tips from the gardening experts on tomato are to see that the seedling is buried up to the last bottom leaves.

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*Plant the tomatoes under direct or indirect sunlight and also in moist soil. The soil should be damp but not water saturated. Watch out for signs of the leaves appearing dry or curling in which case the plant needs more water. This requires immediate attention.

* Prior to farming, Stake or tomato cages are to be placed around the plants so as to prevent the plant from falling over or being uprooted. This tip should be given due importance. Also gardening tomatoes require advanced planning to ensure that the plant matures properly.

To begin with the quality of the seed is of utmost importance. It is important to find out what are the varieties that grow best and in which soil and stay with what works best. The Heirloom varieties of tomatoes are a good option to plant as this variety has a natural immunity to most type of soil. It also has a natural immunity to plant insects and plant diseases.

* Do mulch around the tomato plant. It’s a must even when it is planted inside a container. Mulching will prevent weed growing around while conserving the moisture.

*The leaves at the bottom of the tomato plant needs to be removed as they start ageing. The first signs of ageing appear on the bottom leaves as brown spots, moulds or fungus. This is because the moisture levels vary at the bottom of the plant and the absence of enough sunshine on these leaves.

These tomato gardening tips and techniques are for keeping the plants healthy and to get a bountiful yield. For an interesting start up its better to try the heirloom variety or the yellow and even the purple variety of tomatoes. The tips and advice for tomato gardening and the strategies will all be the same for different varieties of tomatoes and of course for the standard varieties most gardeners love growing.

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