These are the materials that mimic the soil in everyday gardens. It serves as a support system for your hydroponic indoor garden. They function mainly for anchoring the roots and a reservoir for water and nutrient solutions. Special attention is also placed on aeration or proper plant respiration and drainage. A balance must be kept between keeping the plant nourished and over saturating the roots.  Types of Growing Mediums  Choice of a specific growing medium mainly depends on the type of growing system to be used. Certain systems have no mediums used because plant growth is best when roots are suspended in air or water. Improvement made with newer growing medium mixtures has been introduced for optimum plant growth in certain systems. Ideally, an equal mixture of water and air is advised making it available for the roots to utilize at all times. Water by gravity always moves downward through coarse mediums only to be deposited in the bottom of the container. This is eliminated with the use of a hydroponic system as water is constantly circulated in the system. The only system that this would not work would be the Ebb and Flow Systems.  Clay Pebbles Recyclables, it can [more..]

Planting a garden can be carefully thought out, so the gardener will be precise with where he or she plants, for example garden shrubs may be planted to the back of a bed, as a backdrop to the smaller garden plants, and what makes a wonderful show is planting bedding plants right in the front of a bed, thus you will achieve a wonderful display without losing sight of any single bloom. Whatever type of gardener you are, satisfaction and pleasure comes with either planting carefully, or just ‘chuck in and see'.  Again gardeners and gardens are all different some might like to plant garden seeds, and nurture to plug plants, or some may like to take the ‘instant' route and plant plug plants straight away, for a more mature look, and a good head start.   June has come upon us all so quickly, a month that really does take it the words of the famous song ‘June is busting out all over' things are well and truly happening in the garden and some plants will be begging to be deadheaded, while perennial plants are little attention seekers, and if you want your plants to perform week after week, [more..]

I am putting radishes in my garden and need to know how many to plant to get quite a bit of radishes. So how many radishes grow from only 1 (one) seed? [more..]

i live in the dallas/fort worth area of texas. when should i start preparing for the garden. for instance, when should i turn all the soil, mix in the compost, plant the seeds in there own little things to get them started? what are the easier vegetables and fruits that a begginer could start with? any advice and tips would be much appreciated. thanks. and i've got an acre in the back and a lot of time on my hands so the garden is gonna be fairly large. [more..]

They do feed at night and do seek out dark, cool, moist places to hang out during the day. Some common hiding places are under organic matter such as mulch, pine straw, leaf litter, and other debris, loose wood chip mulches, decaying matter, rotten fruit on the ground, wood, boards or tree branches that are on the ground, under dense growth of vines or thick cover and flower pots, any thing moist that will shade and protect them from the sun. As well as hiding in piles of firewood you didn't use last year and let us not forget hanging out inside that small wooded shed you have out back that you haven't been gone inside in years. ?While Earwigs are scavengers, eating dead insects, decomposing plant materials they can also eat live plants and damage your vegetables and feed on the flowers of plants, including marigolds, petunias, hibiscus, and many other plants. Earwigs leave many small holes in plant leaves and flowers. Seedlings and most flowering plants can be severely damaged or even killed when you have a large earwig population (coffee grinds will protect) . Earwigs can produce large populations rather quickly and can become a major problem [more..]

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