Picture the vast, dry outback of Australia, where red earth stretches endlessly under a relentless sun. Yet, step into a backyard garden down under, and you see explosions of gold, crimson, and ...
The Rise of Low-Intervention Gardening
Low-intervention gardening involves allowing nature to take hold instead of implementing extensive outdoor care, including using native plants, limiting harmful chemicals and boosting biodiversi...
Papaver – Perennial Plant, how to grow a Poppy
An ancient Latin plant name of doubtful origin, but possibly derived from the sound made in chewing the seed (Papaveraceae). Poppy. A widespread genus of 100 species of colorful hardy annual and...
Growing Giant Pumpkins
SOIL PREPARATION:
Minimum space is approx. 300 sq. ft. per plant. Doubling this space or even more would be an advantage, and will generally result in a larger pumpkin. Prepare the soil by c...
Planting tomatoes in the garden
Tomato plants in the open air, when properly grown and carefully fed, may bear heavier crops for the time they occupy the ground than they do in the greenhouse. There is seldom any difficulty w...
Tomato Growing Guide
If you already know tomatoes, you might want to shred this booklet and use it as mulch.
If you’re new to growing tomatoes, but don’t want to be bothered, we can keep it simple for you: pla...
What to know when planting a Pulsatilla plant
The name was first used by Pierandrea Mattioli, a sixteenth-century Italian botanist, and physician, and possibly means ‘shaking in the wind’ (Ranunculaceae). This genus of 30 specie...
Growing Sweet Potato & Creative Ways to Display Ornamental Sweet Potato Vine
This favorite American vegetable is a kind of Morning Glory, botanically Ipomoea Batatas, but in the United States, it rarely produces flowers. Its wild progenitor is a native of tropical Americ...
Lysimachia – Perennial Plant, How to grow
Probably from either Lysimachus, King of Thracia, or from the Greek luo to lose, and mache, strife, hence the common name of L. vulgaris (Primulaceae). This genus, of which most species in culti...
How to grow Zucchini
Zucchini
A very rich bed is essential for a regular supply of marrows between late July and autumn. Soil which has received a generous dressing of well-rotted farmyard manure or garden compos...