A valuable collection of articles about gardening, growing vegetables, herbs, fruits, trees. Information about soil, fertilizers, seeds, equipment, tips, experiences from the garden.
Vegetables • Trees • Olives • Grow fruits • Grapes vineyard • Herbs • Weeds • Ornamental plants • Soil • Gardening experiences • People and garden • Know your farmer • Urban gardening • In the garden • Seeds • Plant protection • Garden tools and services • Recipies
Vegetables
How to grow your own vegetables. Tips, techniques, ideas. Learn how to grow tomatoes, onions, spinach, lettuce, cabbage, cauliflower, potatoes, carrots, taro (kolokasi), eggplants, peas, peppers, okras, beans and much more!
How I grow beans and green beans in the garden. Tips, instructions and varieties
Do you want to learn how to grow beans and green beans in the garden?…
A way to support climbing pea plants in the garden. An alternative solution
Peas are a climbing, expansive plant that holds on to anything it can find to…
A guide for new vegetable gardeners
From city kid to posting a new vegetable gardener guide. As a city kid, the…
Planting distances for vegetables and herbs
Vegetables and herbs need vital space to grow. Vital space refers to both their root…
Tomato support with reeds – Tomatoes, peppers, zucchini – Produced from your garden
How can tomatoes be supported with reeds? This year’s production in the garden is abundant….
Trees
Tips and guides on how to plant and grow your own fruit and ornamental trees. Learn about grafting, pruning, fertilizing trees.
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Urban gardening
Cultivation is not only the privilege of those who have a garden. Urban farming is an activity that is gaining more and more friends. All you need are pots, soil, plants, seeds and a good mood.
Urban gardening helps a lot in creating a positive psychology. It helps to think positively and creatively. The feeling that in the grey of the concrete of the city, there can be production of vegetables, trees, fruits, herbs is magical. What could be better than having your own garden on the balcony or rooftop of your apartment building!
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Olives
How to grow olives and make oil and edible olives. The olive is a blessed tree. It gives us its fruits, leaves and wood. It is no coincidence that according to legend, the Athenians chose it as a gift from the goddess Athena over that of Poseidon.
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Grow fruits
How to grow fruit. Instructions and useful information. Would you like to plant and grow your own watermelons and melons? Or your own strawberries?
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Grapes vineyard
How to grow grapes and make your own wine and petmezi. The vine, along with the olive tree, are the characteristic plants of Greece. Both are very productive, hardy and yield products that can be preserved for a long time. Wine and olive oil respectively. From the grapes you can make wine, petimezi, sweets. And from its leaves, everyone’s favorite dolmades!!!
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Herbs
How to grow herbs in the garden and in the city. Grow herbs! It’s easy. They are hardy plants. They have great tasting and healing properties. Start with even a small pot. You won’t regret it!
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Weeds
Weeds are a nuisance to many. They want to cut them down and get rid of them. But weeds are much more than that. They are fighters for life. Indicators of the health of the soil. Valuable helpers in the growth of our plants. Learn about weeds.
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Ornamental plants
Flowers and ornamental plants are the salt and pepper in the garden. We use them for decoration and because they create beautiful emotions. They give, colour, shape, beauty to the garden or balcony.
Taking care of Yucca plant
Yucca is a genus of over 40 perennial plants, shrubs, and trees. A few are…
Taking care of Jasmine plant
From its beautiful blooms to its fresh fragrance, jasmine is one of the loveliest flowers…
Taking care of Geranium – Pelargonium plant
Geraniums are a longtime favorite of gardeners. With colorful flowers and lovely scents, they grow…
Taking care of Gardenia plant
Gardenia (Gardenia jasminoides), a tropical broadleaf evergreen shrub, is typically grown as a large, indoor…
Taking care of Anthurium, tailflower, flamingo flower plant
Anthurium is a genus of around 1,000 perennial plants native to Central America, northern South…
Taking care of Alocasia Wentii, hardy elephant’s ear plant
These loosely branched, shade-loving plants with elliptical leaves can bring delightful color to all corners…
Soil
Soil is the base on which plants grow. It is a complex system of nutrients, pH and micro-organisms. Learn how to enrich it with nutrients (NPK – Nitrogen Phosphorus Potassium). Learn about fertilizers, manure and their use.
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Gardening experiences
The garden and what happens in it, constantly surprises us. We record the experiences.
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People and garden
Useful articles about the garden, plants and their effect on humans.
Taste the Waste film – More than half of food produced in US and European Union goes to the waste
From the field to our table, more than half of all food goes to the…
The benefits of cultivating in the garden or in cities for human health
Why do we cultivate? What are the benefits of growing vegetables, herbs, fruits, trees, ornamentals…
An advice from an elder: “A house large enough to fit and land big as far as you can see”
My wife’s mother was born and raised in Santorini, the famous Greek island. Old times…
Back to the village. A SWOT analysis point of view
The return to the village was something that was of great concern to many Greeks…
3 days without access to Internet – Free or captive in the garden?
Suddenly and without my choice, I found myself without Internet for 3 days. The reason…
Lake Plastiras Greece, Tavern Prosilio, Botanic garden
Successful holidays are those that truly help you to “break” from the daily concerns, work,…
Know your farmer
Stories by and for professional farmers. The people who produce the vegetables, fruits, herbs, vegetables that we consume every day. It’s not easy being a farmer.
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In the garden
Useful information for works in the garden, the estate, the farm.
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Seeds
The seeds are valuable. Learn how to save seeds from your plants.
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Plant protection
Plants have many pests and diseases that affect them and their production, How can you deal with plant infestations, pests and diseases.
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Garden tools and services
How we can make our life in the garden easier by using special equipment and products. But also simple recipes with everyday ingredients we have in our garden. You may find clever ideas.
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Recipies
Recipes to cook what we made in the garden. Food to share with friends and acquaintances.
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