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[justingardens]

Why should you garden? The health benefits: You could be doing your body some good by relieving stress You can improve your eating habits: okay, so this does apply to the first reason, but growing your plants organically is great! You're avoiding pesticides and GMO additives. You're doing the environment some good: It's a small difference but a difference nonetheless. You could make some money! Here's an example: grow a lemon tree and sell lemons (or make lemonade). Everyone loves a good cup of lemonade from time to time! The small satisfaction of knowing you're thriving a living thing every time you take a glance at it or water it.

[justingardens]

Tip

I found if your plants are in a moderately sized pot a whole banana peel (or other things) won't fit. BUT if you slice up the banana peels and apple cores and other things into small pieces before actually putting them into your compost pile it's a lot more functional and will make it easier for the plants to break down its nutrients.

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Update

My manure came! I mixed it in with the plotting soil in my plants and did the same with my compost pile once there was enough.

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This is a healthy looking color for flower roots (: I did well with this one.

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Gardening Tip

Don’t always water the plants in one specific area in the pot, or it’s roots will only spread to that general area. This isn’t healthy and causes the roots to be predictive.

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Wilting slowly, the beginning of this plant's descent has begun! It's roots are losing color, so I've been watering it extra daily.

[justingardens]

My rosebuds seem to be un-blooming instead of wilting and dying. It’s almost like they’re reversing the blooming process. I blame the weather-cold (as I always do). Maybe these roses don't die off, but go away, and then bloom once more in the spring.

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Today's been sunny be the past week has been rainy and I decided to leave the plants out in the rain instead of watering them. This seems to work just as well and the leeks look almost big enough to be planted separately. From there they can grow big and be put washed and put into dishes for added flavoring.

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Roses loving the heat lately. My dad said our backyard is so much more beautiful with these flowers blooming, I think so too. Something to consider when growing these roses-they have pollen and that's been attracting a lot of bees and ants in my yard.

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Winter is just around the corner and everyday the temperature drops slowly. That shouldn't stop you from anything. For whose of you living under cold climates already here you go!

[justingardens]

I found this helpful, I’m gonna start saving my apple cores and banana peels to put in a pile now.

[mothernaturenetwork]

Considering composting? We’ve got the dirt on how to get started — plus, what you can compost and what you can’t!

The science of compost

How to start a compost pile in 4 steps

81 things you can compost

30 things you should never compost

How to become a composting guru

[justingardens]

Here’s some links! I’ll put up some pictures of my compost pile soon.

[manuretea]

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[justingardens]

I'm gonna order this stuff online to mix in with the potting soil of my plants. It's said to be better for the roots of your flowers than traditional manure. Sounds pretty cool.

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The hair on my leeks grew so much! This means the plant is growing well. I love how low maintenance it is. Tommorow I'm gonna mix in a bit of manure and some stuff from my compost pile into the potting soul of my flowers hope it turns out well.

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I'm really surprised this poor plant survived two days without water, it's beginning to wilt though. But its roots do look healthy as well as its leaves.

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This one, however, isn't doing so well. I've found that it will begin to wilt if you don't water it continuously everyday. It's real high maintenance when it comes to sunlight too. The weather's getting colder and colder as winter approaches.

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SO I was gone all weekend long on vacation. I had to leave these poor plants without water, but they surprisingly did okay.