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BAG IT
by Sampath Jagannathan
One man's cheap and organic alternative to fancy store-bought grow bags.
Plant care Information
Encyclopedia of Plant Care
Learn about the history, care and growing information of a host of plants. Look at photos or submit your own.
Handy Garden Tips
Tips on fertilizing, water conservation, growing, pest and disease control.
Winter Flowers
Cut branches from a tree and watch as the buds on those branches spread their seeds one last time.
8 Easy Care Dorm Plants
8 Plants that even the blackest of thumbs can successfully grow in their dorm rooms.
Cactus Revival
Just because your plant looks near-death, doesn't mean all hope is lost for its survival. Follow along with a story about a cactus plant that was revived after being "kicked to the curb".
Basil: Variety is the Spice of Life
by Kelly Gilliam
Learn about the variety of basil types available.
Seeds & Propagation
The Lazy Gardener's Seed Starting Chart
Calculate seed sowing and planting dates in seconds with this even handier version of the Handy Seed Starting Chart.
Handy Seed Starting Chart
Remebering when to sow and when to plant out can be tricky when you've got a wild variety of seedlings on the go. Download and print out this seed starting plan to chart out the sow dates, and planting out dates of this year's crop.
A Beginner's Guide to Vegetable Seed Starting
Includes a handy, printable chart.
Start Healthy Tomatoes
Tomatoes are an easy food crop to grow from seed. Learn some tips for starting and growing perfect (or at least healthy), tasty tomatoes.
Ensure Your Bounty of Peas
Peas are traditionally the first food crop started in the garden. Learn the ins and outs of growing your own.
A Quick and Easy Germination Test
Just because your seed packets are past their due date doesn't mean they aren't still good. Here's a simple test that might save you some cash.
Seed Starting
The whole purpose of starting seeds indoors is to cheat winter a
little. Ironically, even as we cheat nature, we must imitate her.
-- Part 1: Germination
-- Part 2: Damping Off
Harvesting Seeds
Forget shopping. A little botany lesson is all you need for a d.i.y. seed collection. We've even done the work for you and designed lovely seed packets to print out and use.
Share Your Plants
Multiply your plant collection the economical way, through propagation.
Summer Seeds
A list of perennials that can be started from seed in July and August.
Featured Plants
Basil: Variety is the Spice of Life
by Kelly Gilliam
Learn about the variety of basil types available.
How to Plant an Amaryllis Bulb
Everything you need to know to plant and grow one of the easiest and most spectacular flowering bulb plants.
Pansy & Viola
Violas and pansies are admirable, edible, and endlessly colourful. Even more so in the autumn of the year.
Crocus
More than any other, these tough and lovely plants signal the true ending of winter.
Bulbs, Tubers, & Corms
What Do You Mean, It's Not Really a Bulb?
Bulbs, corms, tubers, rhizomes... Finally a clear explaination as to what on earth they are.
What Do I Do with These Daffodils?
You bought your bulbs. You even managed to get a few of them into the ground. Now what do you do? Your questions answered here.
Creating a Naturalized Bulb Garden
What is naturalizing and how do you go about it?
Not Your Grandmother's Irises
The bearded irises of today are available in all sorts of colour combinations and not just the variations on purple that your grandmother used to grow.
How to Plant an Amaryllis Bulb
Everything you need to know to plant and grow one of the easiest and most spectacular flowering bulb plants.
Crocus
More than any other, these tough and lovely plants signal the true ending of winter.
Forced Bulbs
Don't throw out your forced bulbs after they've finished blooming. Learn how you can save your bulbs for further use.
Save Your...
Pineapple Top
Cheat Del Monte and get a free plant. Here's how to grow your own tropical pineapple plant from the discarded top.
Forced Bulbs
Don't throw out your forced bulbs after they've finished blooming. Learn how you can save your bulbs for further use.
Poinsettia
Your poinsettia plant can be restored to it's original pre-holidays lush state. Find out how.
Good Bugs / Bad Bugs
The Tale of Two Mites
One mite eats your plants. The other mite eats the plant eater. Ah the wonders of nature's delicate balance.
Lady Bugs vs Aphids
Everyone's favourite garden insect, the lady bug, dukes it out with the most despised, the aphid. Fight!
In this Section
Plant Care Information A little bit of know-how is all it takes.
Seeds & Propagation All about creating new plants from old ones.
Handy Garden Tips Tips on fertilizing, water conservation, growing, pest and disease control.
Featured Plants Everything you ever wanted to know about....
Good Bugs | Bad Bugs Find out which bugs are on your side.
Save Your... Don't throw out those seasonal plants.
All About Bulbs A guide to growing bulbs, corms, tubers and rhizomes.
Encyclopedia of Plant Care History, care and growing information.
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