Understand Plants » Growing http://understandplants.com About understanding plants through composting, gardening, and landscaping. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:47:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Venus Fly Trap Growing Kit – Grow Carniverous Venus Flytrap Plants from Seed – Kit Includes Seeds, Instructions, More. Great Science Project / Experiment http://understandplants.com/venus-fly-trap-growing-kit-grow-carniverous-venus-flytrap-plants-from-seed-kit-includes-seeds-instructions-more-great-science-project-experiment/ http://understandplants.com/venus-fly-trap-growing-kit-grow-carniverous-venus-flytrap-plants-from-seed-kit-includes-seeds-instructions-more-great-science-project-experiment/#comments Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:14:45 +0000 admin http://understandplants.com/venus-fly-trap-growing-kit-grow-carniverous-venus-flytrap-plants-from-seed-kit-includes-seeds-instructions-more-great-science-project-experiment/ Continue reading →]]> Venus Fly Trap Growing Kit – Grow Carniverous Venus Flytrap Plants from Seed – Kit Includes Seeds, Instructions, More. Great Science Project / Experiment

  • Each Kit Includes: Mini Greenhouse, Growing Medium, Perlite, High Germination Seeds, Instructions
  • Each Kit will produce one or more viable plants
  • Fun & educational

This Venus Fly Trap Kit is fast, easy and fun. Growing these amazing plants makes a great hobby or science project. Also makes a great gift or stocking stuffer. They give you the opportunity to grow the carnivorous and much-fabled Dionaea muscipula, one of America’s most unusual and rare native plants.

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At last, homegrown food doesn’t have to be humble. In fact, it can be downright exotic. A cup of coffee brewed from beans grown in the kitchen. Juice from an orange harvested from the living room. A salad sprinkled with pomegranate seeds or olives plucked from a tree in the dining room.
It’s now possible in any climate, thanks to Growing Tasty Tropical Plants in Any Home, Anywhere, the breakthrough book by Laurelynn Martin and Byron Martin. In this practical guide the owners of the acclaimed

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]]> http://understandplants.com/grow-your-own-christmas-tree-plant-organic-seed-growing-garden-bag-gift-set-kit/feed/ 0 Tomato plants in a garden are not growing well.The gardener hypothesizes that the soil is too acidic.? http://understandplants.com/tomato-plants-in-a-garden-are-not-growing-well-the-gardener-hypothesizes-that-the-soil-is-too-acidic/ http://understandplants.com/tomato-plants-in-a-garden-are-not-growing-well-the-gardener-hypothesizes-that-the-soil-is-too-acidic/#comments Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:16:17 +0000 admin http://understandplants.com/tomato-plants-in-a-garden-are-not-growing-well-the-gardener-hypothesizes-that-the-soil-is-too-acidic/ Continue reading →]]> Question by Shimmathy: Tomato plants in a garden are not growing well.The gardener hypothesizes that the soil is too acidic.?
To test this hypothesis accurately, the gardener could?

a. plant seeds of a different kind of plant
b. move the tomato plants to an area with less sunlight
c. change the pH of the soil
d. reduce the amount of water available to the plant

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Answer by SnackJohnson
b, because it matters on what type of soil the plants are growing in to grow correctly

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Hi,by ever green, I mean anything that doesn’t shed its leaves (deciduous) in the winter. I want to start planting shrubs and bushes , I’ve been doing tons of flowers, but on one side I need a fast growing shrub. I think photinia might be the best ? Also, I would love to have holly bushes/shrubs etc in my yard. Anyone know much about those ?

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Arborvitaes and leyland cypresses are good if you want to make a fast growing border. There are many kinds of holly’s, they can grow from 4 to 30 feet high, some get berries and some don’t and some have small leaves and some have bigger pointy leaves. Hope this helps.

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i have a very large tree growing in my front yard. in the spring the seeds from the tree fall onto the lawn, and within weeks i have small baby plants growing all over my lawn. how do i remove these plants without damaging my grass?

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You can pull them out or run them over with a lawn mower.there is nothing you can spray on them htat wont kill your lawn.

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  • GROWTH RATE: Fast
  • HARDINESS: Zone 5 to 9
  • Size when shipped 4 inch nursery pot

COMMON: Wintergreen Boxwood

LEAVES: Broadleaf evergreen- Oval

Color: Green all year around.

SIZE: 4 feet tall and 3 feet wide

Spacing: 1 1/2 -2 feet apart.

Dwarf Boxwood- Great for a small hedge or shrub.

HABIT: Small shrub

GROWTH RATE: Fast

SOILS: well drained soils

MAINTENANCE: Trim 2 times per year

HARDINESS: Zone 5 to 9

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Fruit seeds can be grown into trees by planting the seed during any time of year, but the seed will only generate sprouts with enough heat and water. Keep a freshly planted fruit seed warm and moist withhelpful information from a sustainable gardener in this free video on growing food. Expert: Yolanda Vanveen Bio: Yolanda Vanveen is a third-generation flower grower and sustainable gardener who lives in Kalama, Washington. She is the owner of vanveenbulbs.com and has sold flower bulbs for more than 15 years. Filmmaker: Daron Stetner
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Hydroponics gardens are different from regular gardens in that there isn’t any soil involved, which makes them great for indoors.  The word begins with hydro for a reason!  Hydroponics gardening  isn’t anything new, either, as it’s been around since as early as 600 BC.  The other wonderful thing about hydroponics gardens is that they can be grown anywhere.  For example, NASA uses indoor hydroponics gardening for growing produce during lengthy missions.  Lettuce is also being grown on U.S. submarines.

To get started with hydroponics gardening, you will need to germinate seeds just as you would for any other type of garden.  Then you choose a growing medium.  The medium can be anything from composted bark to peat moss to sand to nutrient-enriched water.  You can also purchase kits that have everything you need to get your hydroponics gardening started—and growing.  For the beginner, this is probably the best way to go, as you can get everything you need along with expert advice.

The benefits of gardens grown using the hydroponics gardening method are many.  They allow you to grow your produce organically, without harmful pesticides or fertilizers.  And since water is re-circulated in a specialized system, you also conserve water.  This is great news for people who live in drought-stricken areas or in places where water is scarce. Even in these places hydroponics gardening is possible.

Hydroponics gardening is also very low-maintenance.  Because the produce is grown in water, you don’t have to do any digging.  Even better, with these gardens, there’s no weeding involved either.  Plants grow faster, too.  Thirty to forty days from seed to fruit or flower is average.  This is 30-50% quicker than plants grown in soil.

Also, hydroponics gardening makes it possible to grow produce year-round.  This means you can enjoy fresh vegetables and fruit anytime of the year without paying outrageous prices for them.  Plus, since there’s really no telling just how fresh the produce is in your local market, you’ll never have to guess about freshness and purity again.  You’ll know because you grew it yourself under circumstances you control.

This is an important advantage that hydroponics gardening has over traditional gardens.  When you grow plants in soil, even under the best of circumstances, you don’t know for certain that your plants are truly getting the nutrients vital for them to grow.  In gardens grown hydroponically, you know your plants are getting the very best nutrition right at their root system.  This not only ensures the highest quality possible, but it also takes the guesswork out of your hydroponics gardening.

HydroponicGarden.net is a website dedicated to hydroponics awareness and supplies. Visit and discover the choices you have for hydroponics gardening and start growing your own food.

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