Here’s a great low-glycemic, zero-calorie, healthy sugar replacement that you can grow yourself! Sweetleaf (Stevia Rebaudiana) is a native of South America and has been used for 1,500 years to sweeten food, tea, and medicines. Step 1- Buy a Stevia plant Nursery grown stevia plants are sold for their especially sweet leaves. I bought mine from… Click here to read more…
How to Grow Tomatoes
SIMPLEST WAY TO GROW TOMATOES OF ALL TYPES Materials needed: · An over ripe tomato of any type that was bought from the store or seeds from your local nursery · Organic potting soil to mix with your yard soil (optional) · Water · 3-4 inch pot for the first transplant (optional) · six gallon… Click here to read more…
Complete Guide to Soil pH Testing
Soil pH is very important for optimum plant growth. The term pH is a measure of how acidic or alkaline a substance is, in this case, the soil. It ranges from 1.0-14.0, with 7.0 being called neutral. The lower the number the higher the acidity. The higher the number the more alkaline, or less acidic,… Click here to read more…
DIY Sawbuck Bench
How To Build A Folding Sawbuck Bench A sawbuck bench makes it easier to cut long pieces of wood by getting the wood at an ideal height off the ground. This article shows you how to build a sawbuck bench that folds for easier storage. TOOLS What tools you will need: Saw (power or hand)… Click here to read more…
How to Create a Hydroponic Garden
Hydroponics is simply growing plants in water without soil. In commercial settings liquid nutrients are utilized for this style of growing plants. This is a step by step guide for creating a very simple and extremely effective hydroponic garden system. You can use this system to create a miniature indoor hydroponic garden or to propagate… Click here to read more…
DIY Raspberry Trellis
Raspberries will grow happily without any support at all, but having a raspberry trellis /support system makes gardening easier for you! If left to their own devices, raspberries will form an arching plant about 7 to 9 feet tall. Making a support keeps these plants neat and tidy, enables easy walking between rows, and makes… Click here to read more…
How to Amend Clay Soil
Clay soil can be black or red, is as fine as dust, and is hard for plants to move through. Clay soil is waterlogged in wet months and rock hard in summer. If water does reach a plant’s roots, the plant will drown because water can’t escape. This is called root rot. Clay soil does… Click here to read more…
How to Start a Bonsai Tree
Bonsai is a living miniature tree that will increase in beauty as it matures, with proper care from you. With this step by step guide, I will teach you how to start a bonsai tree. You will want to select a tree with a little character already. The trees you purchase will most likely have… Click here to read more…
DIY Self-Watering Planters
DIY Self-Watering Planters There are probably about as many different shapes, sizes, and variations of self-watering planters as there are plants to put in those planters. Most have some form of a water reservoir, fill pipe, and overflow tube or hole. I chose to use 5 gallon buckets because they are easy to find and… Click here to read more…
How to Grow Roses
This will be part one of a three part series on how to grow roses. We will cover all bases from planting, to pruning, to wintering. Sometimes people are fearful about growing roses because of the rumor that they are difficult to care for and take a tremendous amount of time and chemicals to produce… Click here to read more…
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