Image via WikipediaYou will be rewarded in many ways – financial, spiritual and physical - when you choose to plant your own backyard vegetable garden. Once you eat some of the vegetables that you planted and nurtured with your own two hands and discover how tasty they are, you will never want to eat store [...]

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Whether you have a backyard vegetable garden or a flower garden they need watering.
Plants are approximately 90% water and therefore it is essential that they get enough water to survive. Backyard gardening is all about balance and that applies to the amount of water your plants need to stay healthy.
Over watering can be as harmful [...]

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Even though we didn’t really have a backyard garden at any of the homes we have rented or owned we usually had a little garden of some sort, mostly flowers but the odd tomato plant.
I have always had plants indoors, some of which did quite well outdoors during the heat of summer. My wife on [...]

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For your plants to survive it is essential to have an effective watering plan and this can be made somewhat easier by installing an irrigation system.
There are many products on the market that allow the home handy person to install their own irrigation system.
The first thing you will need to do is set out a [...]

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There are many different symptoms that can show where there has 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 is causing the changes to the plant.
Where you see abnormal leaf [...]

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