Get your garden summer-ready with easy-to-follow tips for beginner gardeners. This section breaks down the basics for a range of sun-loving veggies.
As beautiful as white cucumbers are, they can experience difficulty during their growing process – subjecting them to risks of pests and diseases. Recently, I discovered that there are new species of cucumber seeds, which produce white cucumbers. Well, I don’t like them. I love to see my garden filled with green cucumbers at all…
Creativity is needed for your gardening endeavors. You don’t have to follow the same “old and mundane” processes. Growing plants in repurposed plastic bottles is one of the new eco-friendly ways of growing your fruits and vegetables. Beyond the ease that comes with the process, it is also an interesting adventure because you can see…
Have your tomato plant leaves been looking really sad and yellow lately? Yeah…it’s heartbreaking to see something you’ve planted degrade so easily, especially if you had some expectations from it. I mean…we all wish to make that tomato salsa with homegrown tomatoes, don’t we? While the seasonal cycle of the plant definitely does play a…
In the initial stages of my gardening journey, figuring out whether something would pair well with the cucumbers I had in my garden was usually my biggest challenge. Over the many years of trial and error, I found peas to be a wonderful companion for my cucumbers. In today’s article, we’re going to decode why…
We’ve all been there, we go out of town for a couple of days thinking that our garden will be fine only to return and find that everything has shriveled up. So what happened? Well, our plants probably went too long without getting water. Mature peppers can last up to a week without water but…
When pepper plants start to drop their flowers before setting fruit, it can be a bit alarming. And it can be difficult to figure out why your peppers are dropping their flowers in the first place. But, I’m here to tell you why. The most common reasons that peppers drop their flowers are because of…