Indoor Gardening Guide
I am very pleased with my AeroGarden Classic 7-pod AeroGarden Classic 7-Pod with Gourmet Herb Seed Kit, Silver, even though one pod (Chives) did not germinate. The others grew quickly and well and I was harvesting and eating fresh herbs less than four weeks after setting it up — best Christmas present I got this year!
I wish, however, you could buy individual seed pod packs, instead of the full seven at once. I would have put something else in the chives spot when it hadn’t germinated after two weeks.
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It Happens to the Best of Us
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I meet newbie gardeners all the time and it never fails they say something like: "Oh, I don't have a green thumb, I've killed every house plant I've ever had". Well friends, it happens even to us experienced gardeners. Growing houseplants is actually harder than growing plants outdoors. If you think about it, they're out of their native element and many of them are out of their native climate. The majority of houseplants are tropical plants, thus surviving indoors during a cold northern winter is tough for them, even with the protection of being inside. They don't get the heat, humidity and the strong light that they like.
www.ethelgloves.com/magazine/it-happens-to-the-best-of-us
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Indoor Gardening Tips : Good Fertilizer to Add to Indoor Herb Plants
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Fertilizer is very important when it comes to indoor herb plants. Learn which fertilizers are good for indoor herb plants with help from the owner of a nursery in this free video clip. Expert: Oscar Carmona Bio: Oscar Carmona owns Healing Grounds Nursery, located in Santa Barbara, California, where he has been involved in sustainable food production for the past 30 years. Filmmaker: Alfredo Rodriguez Series Description: An indoor garden presents its own set of problems over an outdoor counterpart but in the end can be just as rewarding. Get indoor gardening tips with help from the owner of a nursery in this free video series. |
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February 14th, 2010 at 2:31 am
It’s a nice book, but didn’t help me when it came to solving a plant problem. I learned what the basics were for the plant.
February 15th, 2010 at 2:57 pm
This reference manual is well organized and provides much need tools for the houseplant grower.
February 17th, 2010 at 2:30 am
Full color. One plant per page. Easy to find and diagnose your plant problems. Easy to read charts with each plant. Includes sections on regular care in Part IV. The scientific name is given, and you can find the common name in the index as well. Includes cacti, orchids, palms, bulbs, ferns and more.
February 18th, 2010 at 2:25 pm
I love this book. I am new to house plants and had no idea how to take care of them. This book has helped me to understand how to take care of each plant correctly and the trouble shouting that does happen. Each plant has its own page and decribes how to take care of it in an easy to read setup. Again I love this book. I would recomend it to anyone.
February 20th, 2010 at 3:06 am
I was so excited to get this book, and thought that it would be so helpful to me in taking care of the plants that I already had and also to help me to buy new plants. My first disappointment was that very few of the plants that I already owned seemed to be in the book. I don’t have unusual house plants, just things that I have found at pretty standard stores. I was disappointed, but decided that I would go the other way around – I would choose plants that were in the book, and then go to the nursery to buy those. I chose about 30 plants out of the book as options for things to buy, but to my surprise the nursery only had a few of those. I don’t know if the problem is that there are just too many houseplants for a book like this to be useful, or what.
As far as content for the plants that are covered, I would give the book four stars. It’s pretty good and pretty well organized. It includes information about watering and sun as well as troubleshooting for common problems (though again, the problems that I tend to have with my houseplants are often not listed). It lists ideal temperature ranges for each plant, but I wish that it also listed the range that the plants can tolerate. I don’t heat my house very warm in the winter time, so I was really hoping that the book could help me to choose some plants that could make it through the winter at my house, but it doesn’t. For example, I know from experience that jade plants can tolerate temperature extremes fairly well – they do fine at least as low as 45 degrees and also in the heat during the summer. But the book lists the temperature range for jades as “average room temperatures (65-75 degrees F)”. That’s helpful if you’re trying to decide how warm to heat or cool your house in order to best suit your houseplants, but it’s not that helpful if you’re trying to decide which plants to buy based on the temperature in your house.
I love the title of this book, I’m just disappointed that I didn’t like the contents more too.