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How to Easily Create a Regenerative Garden
There's more than one way to save the planet and luckily, gardening is an awesome way to give back to the Earth. Some gardening methods, like regenerative gardening, do a little more for Mother Nature than your typical garden. If you'd like to learn why and how to build your own regenerative garden, just read on! What is Regenerative Gardening? Instead of relying on pesticides, weed killers and synthetic fertilizers to grow vegetable gardens, regenerative gardeners rely on nature&#...
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How Do Your Plants Get Sick?
Plant diseases can frustrate the most experienced gardeners. Sick plants not only look bad, but they can negatively impact the plant health of your entire garden. Using the right water soluble fertilizer can help boost disease resistance, as can some basic know-how about plant pathogens. To help you keep plant diseases at bay, we've answered the most common questions about plant health. What Does a Sick Plant Look Like? The most common signs of disease in a plant is dry, wilting and disc...
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How to Nourish Your Soil in the Winter
In most climates, planting seasons are cyclical. This means that during an off or dormant season, you should just leave your soil alone, right? Well, not if you want to optimize your plants' health and yield in the following season. Gardening is a full-time job, and you need to ensure that your soil receives proper nourishment all year long, including in the winter. Here are a few tips to make sure that when the winter turns to spring, your soil is primed and ready to burst forth with pla...
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Should You Worry That Your Soil is Contaminated?
What Does it Mean if Your Soil is Contaminated? If your soil is contaminated, there's a chance that the toxic materials can be absorbed into the plants you're growing. These chemicals are detrimental to soil health and could damage, or even kill, the plants you're growing. If you're growing fruit or vegetables, it might be best not to eat them and dispose of your plants if the chemical content of your soil is too high. This is because contaminated soil is most harmful when i...
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Why Do Frost Dates Matter For Your Garden?
Planting a garden in any other season rather than Spring can be challenging. Gardening in Winter and Fall can prove to be especially difficult in certain locations. This is why it’s important to keep in mind to the frost dates noted for the area where you live. Read on to learn what frost dates are, how they differ from freeze dates and how both can affect your cold month harvests. What is a Frost Date? A frost date is generally defined as the day where the likelihood of the ground being fr...
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6 Frost Tolerant Vegetables You’ll Want in Your Garden
In many places, Fall brings colorful foliage but it also brings cooler temperatures along with it that can make an Autumn harvest challenging even for the most experienced gardener. This is why for the cool weather months, we’re fans of semi-hardy and hardy vegetables which can withstand lower temperatures. Semi-hardy vegetables can survive repeated light frosts in the 30–32˚F range meanwhile, hardy vegetables can tolerate temperatures as low as 20˚F. Cold weather conditions even enhance the ...
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8 Things You Need to Know About the Christmas Cactus
For some, the sound of jingle bells and the sight of rooftop lights signal that the holiday season is here. But if you’re a fellow plant lover like us, the blossoming of the Christmas Cactus hints that the holidays are well underway. This exotic plant is native to Brazilian rainforests where it grows as an air plant to gain support from trees and shrubs it sits on top of. Here in the northern hemisphere, however, the Christmas Cactus is usually grown as an indoor plant and blossoms around Chr...
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What's the Function of Magnesium (Mg) in Plants?
You may have more in common with plants than you think. Much like us, plants need a wide range of nutrients to stay healthy and we’ve mentioned time and time again about magnesium’s importance to our own wellbeing. But magnesium is also a critical macronutrient for plant growth and health. It is a key element of the chlorophyll molecule – essential for photosynthesis. Magnesium gives leaves their green hue and activates most plant enzymes needed for growth while contributing to protein synthe...
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How to Prep Your Garden For Healthy Root Growth
Any self-respecting gardener would tell you how important the roots of a plant are. After all, just because you can't see them, doesn't mean that they aren't one of the main sources of your plants well-being. Keeping roots healthy is a vital part of looking after your plants and this short guide should help you identify the difference between healthy and unhealthy roots, and how you can treat poor root health. Why Do Roots Matter? Roots exist to take in water and nutrients from t...
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5 Harmful Garden Insects and How to Eliminate Them
As a gardener, it may seem like everything and anything is a threat to the wellbeing of your plants. This is especially true at the start of the growing season when warmer weather invites hungry insects to come out to play. But oftentimes, we notice our damaged plants before spotting the bug responsible. How quickly you realize your plants are infested can mean the difference between saving them or calling it quits. Read on to learn of a few of the most common harmful garden insects, how to i...
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How to Grow Plants in the City With Urban Gardening
The hustle and bustle of city life is a unique experience to witness. You have the honking of horns during rush hour, the multitudes of pedestrians crossing the street and never-ending skyscrapers. But while these sights and sounds are in ample supply, living space on the other hand, is lacking. The world’s current global population stands at a whopping 7.2 billion people, so the absence of space is no surprise — especially considering that most individuals are increasingly abandoning rural a...
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Square Foot Gardening: Is it the Best Choice?
Looking for simple gardening methods that make growing fresh veggies easy - even if you have only a small amount of space to work with? Want to supplement your healthy lifestyle by cultivating your very own salad greens, herbs, and other edibles? Square foot gardening, also known as SFG, is a technique that was developed by American author and TV host Mel Bartholomew in the 1970s. It's designed to make growing food crops easy while maximizing yields, and when treated with organic fertiliz...
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6 Clever Ways to Reuse Your Christmas Tree in the Garden
Wait! You may not want to drag your Christmas tree to the curb just yet. We may have said goodbye to another Christmas and your tree may have lost some of its evergreen color as a result, but that doesn't mean this holiday pine has completely fulfilled its purpose. There are a couple ways you can recycle your Christmas tree that will benefit your garden well into the New Year! From mulch to ground cover, learn how you can reuse and recycle parts of your tree long after Christmas is over. ...
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Should You Grow in a Straw Bale Garden?
Straw bale gardening is a technique that uses bunches of straw as hosts for growing plants. This method of cultivation is built like a raised bed garden - above ground with the exception that you use straw bales in place of soil. Find out how you can create your own straw bale garden, the pros and cons of it and what you can grow with this gardening method. Which Type of Straw is Needed? To make a beautiful, healthy garden you need good, firm straw bales. Wheat, rice or barley are good choic...
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What's the Function of Zinc (Zn) in Plants?
If you're like most home gardeners, you're always looking for ways to keep your plants thriving and disease free without resorting to chemical fertilizers. Even many commercial growers want to lessen their impact on the environment by finding natural ways to improve their yield and quality of their crops. It's often not as easy as it sounds to be an organic gardener or farmer. One good resource that can help boost your vegetable production and keep your plants healthy without harm...
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Major Elements vs. Trace Elements: Why Your Plants Need Both Last updated: April 7, 2026 Written by: Amir Tajer, B.S.M.E., QAL — Co-Owner & Technical Director, Greenway Biotech Reviewed against: UC Davis Plant Sciences Extension, Penn State Extension Agronomy guidelines, and USDA nutrient function references Disclosure: Greenway Biotech manufactures the fertilizers mentioned in this guide. Alternative formulations, including organic options, are also discussed. ⚡ Quick Facts: Plant Nutrients Major (macronutrients): Nitrogen, phosphorus...
