#beginner garden

[ecoinnovation]

Composting tutorial

Regrow store bought veggies

[punkofsunshine]

Tips for the new gardeners of a new growing season

I, myself, am rather a novice gardener. I have learned things from my previous growing season however, so I’ll share tips about tending fruiting plants (my favourite fruiting plants are hot peppers) and seed saving.

1. If you are planning on using pots, get the best potting soil you can and top with mulch to retain water

2. If you use r.o.t.m. dirt, consider adding mulch (wood-chips or straw/grass), compost, or other organic matter before and after planting, if you have access to manure, fantastic, just let worms get to it first. Fresh manure has a tendency to burn the roots of many plants

3. Plan according to the direction of the sun, but also to water access, this is difficult for people who have big yards, but adding mulch helps a lot so the ground doesn’t dry out as quickly. It helps most in the summer of course, but layering mulch per year increases organic mass and soil quality significantly (it also keeps weeds at bay)

4. Don’t use pesticides or artificial fertilizer. It will kill the soil’s micro-biome and puts predator animals of pests in danger of being poisoned. To keep bugs away, use lemon or orange scented oil, for bigger animals or rodents, use a garlic or onion scented spray

5. Avoid growing the exact same plants right next to each other, mono-culturing stands out to bugs and other pests, but birds will commonly eat bugs in spring, what you would probably have to worry about is them getting after berries and flying drunk into a window

If you want more tips for beginners like myself, I’d love to provide them, but the best teacher is experience. If you completely disregard these tips, that’s acceptable as well. Have fun out there babes!

This has been @punkofsunshine. Have a good one and stay safe.

[aislinnmoonbaby]

I’ve got my own place :D

✨🔮 After years of sharing an apartment with a beloved friend of mine, I finally moved into my own place two weeks ago. And the biggest plus side: I’ve got my own garden now 🖤✨ So I’m looking for some tips/advice as I will be redoing the entire garden, since it hasn’t been properly taken care of and it is in desperate need of some love. I’m looking for some plants/flowers that are easy to keep, as I tend to be very forgetful when it comes to watering/clipping plants. 🖤So what are some gorgeous/musthave plants for a garden that are relatively easy to grow? (and will grow in Western Europe)

[paintedxfaerie]

did some gardening today 🌱💕

[justplantmomthings]

Received some beauties in the mail today!

[livinginjune]

I want to try and be more active here, so to start I'm going to share some of my plants, starting with my succulent collection.

I've got a couple Echeveria that I recently separated from a pot they shared with my California sunset twins (I call them twins because their main stalks are conjoined). I'm pretty sure the green/greyish one is a blue atoll and the purple one a purple pearl. I've had these for about a year.

I finally got my first String of Tears a few weeks ago! I bought a cheap baby from a local nursery and was able to separate it into two plants. They've rooted nicely and the smaller one has some new bulbs already!

I'm going to dedicate a whole separate post to my aloe vera plants later, because I have several and I FINALLY got one to flower. For now, though, here is the Baby Bay, as I call it. It's a shaded area where I keep my smaller plants until they're big enough to handle more sun. I have several aloe pups from 3 different 'mothers' and one I found at a 99 cent store. (Here you'll also see a creeping succulent whose name escapes me and my beautiful Oxalis in the top left, another 99 cent store find.)

[rootsooman]

Sprouting an avocado seed. Day 1. Friday, March 22nd 2019.

[samthesciwitch]

I made a brew of: - used coffee grounds - crushed egg shell - diced orange peel - diced banana peel ... in boiling water, and I poured it over this patch of garden bed. I'm trying to cheaply revitalize a garden that hasn't seen action in a year or more. The soil seems to be ok quality, and it has had a black plastic covering to kill (most) weeds. I hand-tilled the soil and weeded. I planted some Japanese sweet potatoes that sprouted really nicely in my pantry.