How to Make Your Poinsettias Forever Blooming

Poinsettias are a favorite plant especially during December when approaching the Christmas season. Their beautiful bright color flowers are symbols that holiday season is coming at your door.

To have your continues supply of flowers comes holiday season, you need not buy a new stock, but rather make your plant forever available the whole year round. Login to Read Full Text

Advantages of Pruning to Common Vegetables

Pruning is the latest technology applied to horticultural crops to increase the quality of  fruit bearing plants and vine crops. Reducing the number of branches and vines provides the maximum utilization of nutrient elements by the plant which supports the production of quality fruits. The excess branches and vines are only an addition to the plants’ burden, since they utilized more nutrients and not giving advantage in terms of fruit quality. Login to Read Full Text

A Healthy Garden Makes Seniors Live longer

Gardening is the most perfect exercise for senior citizens. Do you know why? When you’re in your garden, tending your plants, you forget everything from muscle pain, arthritis related pains, since you’re busy with your plants.

You feel uplifted and aroused with the smell of sweet flowers and the beauty of your healthy red tomato fruits , shiny eggplant fruits, greenish lettuce, and lots of vegetables you can see in the garden. Login to Read Full Text

How to Establish Your Container Garden

Vegetable production is not only applicable in the countryside or in the  gardens but can be grown now within the heart of the city or just in your home even with only a limited space.

If your home has an area with ample sunlight - a requirement for growing vegetables, you can grow them successfully. What are the locations that can be used for container gardening ? You can use your patio, balcony, terrace, rooftop, deck, window sill, pathways, etc.

Be aware of the sunlight requirement for each kind of crop. For leafy vegetables, the required sunlight should be about four hours  the whole day, for fruit vegetables, at least 7-8 hours sunlight is needed daily, and root vegetables requires around 6 hours of sunlight a day. Login to Read Full Text