Miniature Brass Buttons Plant: Planting Leptinella Tips
Brass buttons plants are an excellent groundcover option to fill pathways, lawns, and corridors. Learn to care for Leptinella gruveri here.
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Blue Star Creeper Care: A Great Ground Cover
Blue star creeper, also known as Isotoma fluviatilis or swamp isotome, is an easy to care for ground cover. Learn to grow it here.
Baby Tears Plant: How to Care for Soleirolia Soleirolii
Do you need help in planting a baby’s tears plant? Learn how you can plant and take care of these beautiful plants in your home. Click here for the complete guide.
Ardisia: Caring For Christmas Berry Plants
Throughout the winter, the red, coral, or off-white berries of the ardisia plant can be seen. This has earned it the common name Christmas berry, and it can really be …
Harvesting Worm Castings: 4 Foolproof Methods
The first step in successful vermicomposting is keeping the worms alive, reproducing, and recycling your food scraps and organic waste into beautiful worm castings. The second step involves how to …
What Kind of Worms Should I Compost With?
It’s very common for the new vermicomposter to ask “What kind of worms can I use in my worm bin? They’re kind of all the same, right?” No. Not at …
Cat Grass: Growing Tasty Treats For Your Feline Friends
Grass for cats? It may seem strange, but my feline companions love their cat grass. In fact, one of them will dart outside to try to eat the lawn when …
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Worm Castings: Powerhouse Poop From Wiggly Worms
Of the organic fertilizers and amendments available, worm castings are some of the best. It’s not because they’re packed with a high NPK. It’s because they provide slow-release fertilizer over …
Wandering Jew Plant Outdoors? Yes, It’s Possible!
Is it possible to grow wandering jew plant outdoors? Absolutely. It started there, after all! But there’s some tricks to growing these plants so they thrive in an outdoor setting. …
Horse Manure: From Road Apples To Fantastic Fertilizer
There’s a lot of different names for horse manure! Horse buns, horse chips, horse hooey, horsepucky, or our favorite, road apples. To some, it’s just a mess that needs to …
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Corn Gluten Meal: A Fertilizer And Natural Herbicide
Corn gluten meal has gotten a weird reputation. Some people swear by it as a natural herbicide. Others claim it has no effect on weeds whatsoever. But it is a …
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Cottonseed Meal: A Trash To Treasure Fertilizer Story
We all know cotton is a valuable material worldwide. But its byproducts, like cottonseed meal, have value too! With more and more people growing their own food, cotton seed meal …
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