How to Build Healthy Soil Before Spring

Sharing is caring! Healthy spring gardens are built long before seeds ever go into the ground. In my experience gardening year-round in Sonoma Valley—mostly in raised beds, mounded beds, and containers—the quiet...

Gardening

Healthy Foods & Lifestyle

Eco-Friendly Pest Control

Essential Garden supplies

DIY Garden Hacks

Hydroponics

Managing Internal Water Flow and VPD 101

Learn how irrigation, root growth, humidity, and VPD shape plant physiology, helping balance vegetative growth with stress to boost valuable compounds. During my studies at Wageningen University & Research, we...

Is Triacontanol Nature’s Gift to Growers?

Everest Fernandez looks at the natural plant growth regulator Triacontanol and its use in ‘bloom booster’ products. Does your preferred bloom booster claim to have a ‘secret ingredient’ that will...

How to Grow Kale in Hydroponics?

Kale has been the healthiest green of choice with all the nutrients and vitamins. This richly flavored green steals the spotlight in food marts and fancy kitchens. But we...

Vegetable Gardening

Garden Farm

Garden Design

What if Greenhouses were Designed for People, Too?

What If Greenhouses Were Designed for People, Too? Between where I live and the city of Boston, there is a stretch of towns that were...

Should we stop comparing fungi to apples? | Jack Wallington

I love fungi, looking for them in autumn is one of the things I look forward to most all year. You don’t even need...

Garden Makers, Landscaping Clients, and the Difference Between Care and Consumption

Over the years, I’ve come to understand that many of the frustrations people feel around gardens—whether as designers, clients, or homeowners—don’t actually stem from...

Houseplant

Philippine violet (Barleria cristata) | Blue flowering shrub care

Introduction to Barleria cristata ( Philippine violet) Barleria cristata...

Silver Squill (Ledebouria socialis) Growing and care tips

Silver Squill (Ledebauria Socialis) is an amazing, attractive,...

Tradescantia, Aspidistra, Marble Queen, SoH, Snake Plants and more… – HOUSE PLANT HOUSE

For today’s Repotting Diaries, I’m working through some more of my houseplants that need a bit of a transformation. There’s a bit of propagation...

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