Tips to Grow Your Own Plants from Seed

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Tips to Grow Your Own Plants from Seed

One of the most rewarding parts of gardening is to start something beautiful completely from scratch. And while you can do this by purchasing a starter seedling plant, it’s actually quite easy to grow many plants and flowers from seeds too.

Many popular flowers and plants grow easily from seeds, and once you have at least one growing you can often collect the seeds each year and start new plants from them as often as you’d like. There are various ways to grow plants from seeds, and here we’ll look at some of the most common.

Keep in mind that you can buy seeds from a store if you don’t have any plants to harvest them from to start with.
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How to Test your Garden Soil for Acidity Levels

How to Test your Garden Soil for Acidity Levels

As all gardeners know, different strokes for different folks apply as much to plants as it does to people. Some plants such as azaleas and camellias are acid-loving, while others such as clematis prefer a much more alkaline soil to call home.

Soil acidity or alkalinity is defined by the amount of calcium-rich lime in the soil and the type of soil itself. Soil acidity and alkalinity are expressed by their pH; a pH lower than 7.0 connotes an acid soil while one with a pH higher than 7.0 is alkaline.

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Pruning and Shaping Trees and Bushes Creatively

Pruning and Shaping Trees and Bushes Creatively

Many inexperienced gardeners are hesitant to prune or clip back branches on the trees and bushes in their yards, because they don’t know it’s quite easy to do, and they don’t realize it’s very helpful for the grow and vitality of the plants too.

Trimming and pruning has practical and safety purposes first of all. If a tree branch is dead, you risk having it fall on your roof, a car, or even a person. So trimming it off is the safest thing to do. The same applies to bushes… if you have one with branches sneaking into your rain spouts, the best option is to trim those before they create damages that could lead to further problems.

Trimming and pruning will also allow you to shape your bushes and trees nicely though. Some people don’t like a manicured, neatly trimmed look however, and would rather keep everything as natural looking as possible. Unfortunately if you don’t trim and shape a bush or tree in its younger years, it can have growth problems and safety issues as it matures.
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