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The fall clean-up is done, your bulbs are planted and your looking forward to the spring gardening season. You need not look so far ahead. Winter can be a busy time for gardeners. Planning, of course, is essential but there are a few other chores which can be done as well.Here are a few gardening tips to help you get through winter.Review last year's journal and start a new one for this year by recording your seed/plant orders Browse through catalogs or spend a little time online searching for the plants you'll be using during the upcoming season. First, however, plan your new garden or update your existing one.Rework your garden design, think about what was missing in the garden during the previous season. Also, look around, what could make the landscape more interesting during the winter months. Often, a large evergreen serving as an anchor or specimen shrub can improve a winter landscape. Look for shrubs with winter berries, trees which begin budding in late winter or tress and shrubs with interesting form or colorful bark.Forethought is essential when planning successful garden. After you've decided what you'd like your new garden to offer begin a site analysis. Having a [more..]

Many households all over the world grow and use herbs. Some of the most common uses for herbs are for cooking and for medicinal purposes. In addition to this, there are many individuals who grow herbs and gardens for ornamental purposes. Herbs like Echinacea, chamomile and lavender produce some of the most beautiful flowers and foliage.Basic herb gardening information will need to be understood when starting your garden so that you can have a solid and knowledgeable foundation when cultivating your garden. Although starting an herb garden is easy and require little maintenance it is still very essential to be equipped with some of the most common and basic principles to get your herb garden off to a healthy start so that they can perform at their absolute best.Herbs are categorized by the following types: annuals, biennials and perennials. Some herbs in the annual family include: Arugala, Aloe Vera, Borage, Basil, Cayenne, Calendula, Coriander, Chamomile, Chervil, Garlic & Dill. Annual plants live for only one growing season and then it dies. Some herbs in the biennial family are: Caraway, Angelica, Parsley, Evening Primrose, and Foxglove to name a few. Biennial herbs are plants that live for two years. During the [more..]

Do you have an extra bath tub in your house? One that no one uses? If so, then you have the perfect place for growing your indoor hydroponic garden!Now why would you want to use the bath tub? First of all, if it is never used, then you are paying for that extra real estate it is taking up. You might as well put it to use.Second, a bath tub gives you the benefit of having a drain built right in to your container. That way you can flush out the water reservoir on an as needed basis and then provide new and fresh nutrients for your plants.Third, with the larger space that a bath tub provides, you can either grow more plants or grow fewer but much larger plants.Let's get started!First you will need a medium to hold up your plants. In typical, outdoor gardening, this is the soil. In hydroponics, it is something else. With a bath tub hydroponic garden, you can use styrofoam or another buoyant container. The object is to keep your plants floating in the nutrient solution so that the roots can soak up the nutrient rich water.You will also need a pump or bubbler [more..]