I absolutely love beautiful bamboo plants! They are the epitome of Zen in your garden. They have a serene green color, and its stalks and leaves sway magnificently in the wind. People often wonder if bamboo is a grass or a tree. Bamboo is part of the Poaceae plant family, which is a family of…
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How To Grow Corn Easily: Our Comprehensive Guide
Put simply, corn is fun and easy to grow in your home garden. Corn is so common in our grocery stores, that pretty much everyone recognizes it. It is relatively easy to grow, and its fast-growing stalks make for a dramatic growing experience. Even in a home garden, the resulting ears look just like the…
Top 8 Fast Growing Shade Trees For Your Garden
Planning a new garden is a lot of fun. It’s also hot and sweaty work without shade. That’s why you need to plant fast growing shade trees for your garden. Once you’ve got you’re garden layout the way you want it, planting fast growing shade trees is one of the first steps to building an…
Everything You Need To Know About Square Foot Garden Spacing
Whether you’ve heard of square foot gardening before or have just discovered the movement, understanding the basics of square foot garden spacing can be overwhelming. With a square foot garden, you can grow a range of fruit and vegetables with less weeding, less wasted water, and less space. But even if you think you know…
Fun Facts About Snapdragons
Snapdragons are unique flowers with a cute and evocative name that very much fits their playful personality. The blossom of this short-lived perennial really does look like a tiny dragon; and behaves like one, too. When you pinch the dragon “jaw” of the two-lipped, tubular blossom on the sides, it will open and shut again…
How to Grow Strawberries: A Complete Guide
Strawberries are one of the summer’s quintessential fruits: sweet, brightly colored, and readily available at your favorite grocer or farmer’s market. As one of the most versatile fruits, strawberries can be blended in iced drinks, smoothies, preserves, desserts, and more! Strawberries are also an easy-to-grow plant, appropriate for practically all spaces and gardening skill levels….
How to Grow Potatoes 101
Potatoes are one of the staple foods that you just can’t live without. They are a fixture on every American dinner table — whether fried, baked, mashed, scalloped, or roasted. And because it’s such an indispensable food item, you are probably compelled to know how to grow potatoes in your own vegetable garden. The great…
Alfalfa Seed: Ultimate Guide To Gardening
Whether you’re interested in growing alfalfa for your own culinary creations or to feed livestock, this ultimate guide to alfalfa seed gives you all you need to know for growing, harvesting, and maintaining this nutritious, easy-care grass. What Is Alfalfa? Image from Pixabay Alfalfa is a fairly hardy perennial grass in the legume family. Legumes…
How Long A Chestnut Tree Can Live and Other Info
There are eight different types of chestnut tree. They are closely related to oak and beech trees and native to the northern hemisphere, where they thrive in temperate climates. The major groupings of chestnut tree are named for their native region: American, Chinese, European, and Japanese. Two chestnut tree varieties are native to the U.S.:…
How To Grow An Acorn Tree: A Complete Guide
Growing an acorn tree takes time, skill, and lots of patience – but the result can be a wonderful addition to a yard or property with lots of benefits for nearby wildlife too. It’s a great way to help future generations and give a sturdy symbol to the land, as oak trees are some of…