Image via Wikipedia One of the most cost effective ways of getting plants for your garden is from cuttings off other plants. Many people avoid trying to grow plants from cuttings assuming it is too difficult. If you know what to do it isn't quite as difficult as many folks believe. When you take a cutting off the plant that you want to grow, make sure it is approximately the length of a [...]

Image by Getty Images via @daylife There are many different symptoms that can show where there's been a nutrient deficiency in a plant. Because all plants respond differently to a lack of nutrients it is not always easy to determine whether it is a deficiency or something else that's causing the changes to the plant. Where you see abnormal leaf colouring, where the leaf has turned a pale [...]

Image via Wikipedia Feeding Your Plants Just like People Need Food, If you feed your plants too much fertilizer that is high in nitrogen you might get a lot more foliage but a reduction in the fruit or flowers that the plant will produce. This is because the plants will be using that nitrogen as energy to increase faster rather than produce more fruit or flowers. Plant Care Products - [...]

Image by Getty Images via @daylife The Right Feed for Your Garden Plants The best time to begin feeding plants in your garden is in spring. At this time of the year the ground is still moist from the winter and early spring rains. As the ground warms up with the hotter spring weather you get ideal growing conditions in your garden. This is a crucial time for growth in the garden and [...]

Image via Wikipedia Diseases in the garden can spread more readily in damp conditions so you need to be careful when working in your garden during the damp season not to transfer disease from one plant to the next. If you discover any diseased parts on your plants slice them out and discard them in the rubbish. If the plant is too far-gone to recover then remove the whole plant but [...]

Image via Wikipedia Choosing Plants that are Healthy When you're buying or receiving plants from someone there are a several things that you need to look at before deciding to plant them in your garden. You will generally get a better quality plant from a garden middle and it will be less likely to have sickness or other problems that could spread to other plants in your garden. There [...]