Green Thumbs - Gardening Tips and Ideas

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Direct Composting is Easy - Find Out How to Do It!
🌱 Transform your garden waste into nutrient-rich soil with direct composting! 🥕🍂 Discover easy techniques like trench, hole, and in-situ composting that save time and improve soil health. Bury kitchen scraps and yard waste directly in your garden for a low-effort, eco-friendly solution. 🌿🍃 🌻🌼 Find out how to do it on The Gardening Cook!
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What are pot feet and why do you need them?
This handy tool can help save your succulents from rotting! Read the article to find out why.
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The Best Gardener Gifts for Women - From Gardening Aprons to a Plant Lady Mug
Finding the best gardener gifts for women on your list can be a challenge. Whether they’re a seasoned green thumb or just a beginner gardener, these gifts are perfect for all women gardeners. From gardening aprons and gardening accessories, you can embrace the joy of gifting without breaking the bank, and watch as your loved ones’ gardens flourish with the thoughtful additions from Roo Gardening.
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Harvesting Made Easy with the Roo Harvesting Apron
The Roo Gardening Apron is perfect for assisting you with harvesting your fruits, weeding and deadheading your garden or collecting anything that needs to be put away. Keep your hands free with this harvesting apron and all your tools at your fingertips with our large Roo pouch and 3 additional storage pockets. Make gardening easy this garden harvesting apron. Photo Credit @downtotherootsnc & @thirsty.acres
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Astilbe Companion Plants - What to Grow with Astilbe
Enhance your garden with perfect companions for astilbes! Our blog post shows you pictures of ideal plant pairings to complement these graceful perennials. From shade-loving blooms to foliage contrasts, discover how to create stunning combinations that elevate your garden's beauty. Explore the list on The Gardening Cook today!
the easy egg collection with the roo - steep egg harvesting apron is shown here
Easy Egg Collection with the Roo-ster Egg Harvesting Apron from Roo Gardening
An easy egg collecting apron and a garden harvesting apron the Roo-ster from Roo Gardening. This is a gardening apron with 2 in 1 functions. This harvesting eggs apron is perfect if you have a small homestead or urban homestead to be your gathering apron. includes 12 individual egg gathering pockets. Each pocket of our homestead apron is carefully designed to ensure that the egg stays safe.
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Succulents in Snow? Absolutely!
There are a bunch of succulents that can grow in snowy climates all year round. Take a look at this article to see a beautiful collection of cold hardy succulents and learn how you can do the same.
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Use Epsom Salt in the Veggie Garden
So what is Epsom Salt and why is it so popular among vegetable gardeners? The main ingredient in Epsom Salt is magnesium sulfate which is an important soil additive for healthy plant life. It allows plants to take in nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen and enhances the capability of the soil. It assists in the creation of chlorophyll which is used by the plant to convert sunlight into food.
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Composting 101 - Making Black Gold
Composting, in a nutshell, is turning your waste into nutrient-rich soil for use in your garden. You can read about the subject in such depth as to make your head swim and find it to be quite overwhelming. But whether you start with a compost bin or a designated 3 foot by 3-foot area, knowing a few basic principles will help you achieve that rich, earthy-smelling soil amendment that we all want.
We all know that Baking Soda is great for indoor use as a mild abrasive cleaner and also to neutralize those fridge odors, but what about its uses in the garden? Baking Soda is made up entirely of sodium bicarbonate which is a highly alkaline substance making it great for the following uses in the garden: Uses Of Baking Soda, Baking Soda In The Garden, Stone Garden Paths, Beginner Gardening, Vegetable Harvest, Vegetable Garden Tips, Garden Works, Baking Soda Uses
Baking Soda Uses in the Garden
We all know that Baking Soda is great for indoor use as a mild abrasive cleaner and also to neutralize those fridge odors, but what about its uses in the garden? Baking Soda is made up entirely of sodium bicarbonate which is a highly alkaline substance making it great for the following uses in the garden:
bush beans and pole beans growing in the garden
Bush Beans vs Pole Beans - Do You Know the Difference?
Bush beans vs pole beans - which is the easiest to grow and which takes up the most room? Find out about the different types of beans and learn how to grow beans on the Gardening Cook.
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Multi-Sow Those Seeds!
Multi-sowing refers to sowing several seeds, usually four to ten seeds depending on what you're growing, in the same seed-starting cell and allowing them to mature into small clumps. Then, rather than thinning them or planting them out one plant per space, the entire clump is planted together.
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Harvesting Plums with the Joey Harvesting Apron from Roo Gardening
This time of year, my life is all about the plums. I harvest in the morning using my joey harvesting apron and then again in the early evening because more ends up ripening throughout the day, which is the perfect job for my Joey gathering apron from Roo Gardening because I can stay up on my ladder longer without having to hope I don’t drop or spill any plums from a bucket or bowl! Credit @cookseyfarms