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  • How to Grow Bonsai Pomegranate Trees

    Pomegranate bonsai trees are also known as dwarf pomegranates. As the name suggests, they share much in common with their larger brethren with the exception of size: the fruit, flowers, leaves and...

  • How to Grow Cocktail Grapefruit Trees

    Grapefruits are large, tart citrus fruits grown mostly in the sunbelt of Zones 9 and 10. Grapefruits can be classified as red or white, depending on the color of the pulp, and range from sweet to...

  • How to Divide a Pineapple Bromeliad Plant

    Pineapples are truly an amazing fruit. Who would think that such a spiny, ferocious shell could hold such sweet, juicy flesh? On top of it all, new research suggests that pineapples have...

  • When to Harvest Seed Potatoes in Ohio?

    Potatoes are fun and easy to grow as a root crop in your garden. As hungry plants, potato vines take some added nutrition at the time of planting. Amend the ground before you start, and make sure...

  • How to Harvest Seeds From Fresh Fruit

    Collecting your own seeds from this year's harvest will ensure a future crop that you can rely on, based on this year's progress. Replanting your seeds for the following year is economically cost...

  • How to Support Sugar Snap Peas

    Sugar snap peas are not only delicious and easy to cook, they are very easy to grow. They love to trail and to wend their way upward; all you need to do to support sugar snap peas is to give them...

  • How to Keep Peach Trees Small

    Peaches are truly a juicy jewel of nature. With their sweet smell, soft fuzz and mouthwatering flesh, it's no wonder this fruit has become so popular with home and commercial gardeners. Whether...

  • How to Dry Black Walnut Hulls

    Black walnut trees produce their rich nuts encased in several layers of protective coatings. The round outer husk covers a thin layer of black indelible dye which gives way to the hard outer...

  • How to Know When to Pick Apples From Dwarf Apple Trees

    Apple trees are a popular part of American folklore and tradition. They also are one of the most popular trees in home landscaping and personal orchards. Their wide, spreading branches are perfect...

  • How to Cultivate Fig Trees From Seeds

    Figs are a delicious, exotic fruit often eaten as a dessert. The sweet fruit grows on trees that are adaptable to most environments and can be propagated either from a cutting or from seed, but...

  • How to Eat Common Yard Plants

    It is time to take a new approach to the term "common weed." Instead of seeing these plants as lawn invading monsters, we should look at them for what they truly are: beautiful, delicious and...

  • Where Are Raspberry Seeds Located on the Fruit?

    Raspberries are a popular edible crop that is enjoyed in jams, jellies, fruit pastries and fresh fruit desserts. Cultivated summer-bearing and ever-bearing raspberries canes are purchased and...

  • Peach Tree Tutorial

    Peaches are truly a sweet, juicy jewel of nature. With their sweet smell, soft fuzz and mouthwatering flesh, it's no wonder this fruit has become so popular with home and commercial gardeners....

  • How to Bud an Orange Tree

    Oranges are a popular Sunbelt fruit, with a cheerful look, heady scent and bright citrus taste. The trees are also quite attractive, with their glossy, dark green leaves and bright white blossoms....

  • How to Get Larger Peaches From Your Peach Trees

    Peaches are truly a juicy jewel of nature. With their sweet smell, soft fuzz and mouthwatering flesh, it's no wonder this fruit has become so popular with home and commercial gardeners. Whether...

  • How to Plant Soybeans in Food Plots

    The soybean is native to Africa, Australia and Asia and offers beans that can be eaten raw or processed for soy milk. Home gardeners have started growing soybeans for their health benefits, which...

  • How to Plant Banana Passionfruit Seeds

    The banana passionfruit, or curuba, a close relative of the common passion fruit, is a longer, thinner, yellow version of its cousin but some believe is even sweeter in taste. Passionfruit vines...

  • How to Soak Potatoes Before Planting

    Seed potatoes, instead of actual seeds, are used when planting potatoes. The seed potato can be planted whole or cut into pieces, with each piece having at least one eye. Instead of using...

  • How to Grow Okra Indoors

    Okra is usually grown outdoors in climates that are warm and sunny. In other climates, okra can be grown indoors to provide gardeners with this vegetable at any time of the year. Okra seeds can be...

  • How to Grow Yellow Split Peas

    Yellow split peas, which are grown throughout the United States, belong to the garden pea family. These peas are traditionally dried, peeled and split to hasten their cooking time, which is...

  • How to Shake Nut Trees

    The benefits of cultivating a backyard orchard are many. The bounties of fresh almonds, pistachios, walnuts, chestnuts and pecans are the most obvious temptations. The aesthetic landscape offered...

  • When to Pick Passiflora?

    Passiflora is a genus of flowering and fruiting tropical vines. They are prized for their rapid and climbing growth habit, impossibly intricate exotic blooms and sweet tangy fruit called maypops....

  • Season for Planting Leek Seeds

    You should plant leek seeds early to give them adequate time to grow. Leeks are a mild flavored form of onions. Leek plants also are related to garlic, which is scientifically known as the...

  • How to Cultivate Queen Palm Seeds

    The queen palm tree is native to Brazil and Argentina, but can be grown in the warmest parts of the United States. It is the most popular tree in Florida, with its stately single trunk and large...

  • How to Keep Birds From Eating Your Fruit Trees

    It is often a delight for bird watchers to spot birds stopping by a bird feeder in their back yard, but when the feeder is one of your trees and you're watching all the fruit disappear from it,...

  • How to Identify Apple Trees

    Apples are one of America's favorite fruits. Apple trees also are popular with homeowners due to their easy maintenance and their regular harvests of sweet fruit. These hardy trees are often found...

  • How to Pick Garden Greens

    Garden greens include leafy green vegetables that are harvested in early spring or fall. They include spinach, kale, collard greens, mustard greens and turnip greens. The majority of garden greens...

  • How to Cultivate Poppy Seeds

    Poppy seeds (Papaver somniferum) are small, black seeds used for a variety of culinary and medicinal purposes. Contrary to the negative association poppy seeds share with opium, the seeds...

  • How to Make a Citrus Tree Green

    Citrus plants like oranges, lemons, limes and kumquats are evergreen, subtropical natives known for their fragrant flowers and edible fruits. A nutrient-poor soil or lack of a scheduled, balanced...

  • How to Grow a Rice Plant

    Rice is an important staple in the world economy, as well as in most people's diets. Growing your own can be a simple and rewarding process. With a little bit of work and a lot of patience, you...

  • How to Plant Vegetables in Your Raised Garden

    In this article you will learn how to plant and grow vegetables in your raised bed. A lot of plants need early morning sun and others need afternoon sun. Make sure you buy plants that suit your...

  • How to Water a Pineapple Dracaena Plant

    The pineapple Dracaena plant is tropical and works sufficiently as a house plant, due to its ability to survive with limited sunlight. The moisture needs of these plants varies depending on the...

  • How to Grow Orange Trees in Containers

    Orange trees are popular with home gardeners across the world. Some people enjoy growing these gorgeous, sweet-scented trees, and presenting oranges to their friends and guests. If you don't have...

  • When Should a Honeydew Melon Be Planted?

    Honeydews are the sweetest melons. They are a warm-weather crop that takes up to 100 days to develop from a seed to a vine that produces a melon mature enough to harvest. Due to how long it takes...

  • How to Grow Sugarcane in a Greenhouse

    Sugar cane is sweet, exotic and surprisingly easy to grow. Growing sugar cane in a greenhouse is not really any different from growing it indoors, except that you probably won't have to water it...

  • How to Raise Avocado Trees

    Avocado trees require a tropical environment such as that found in southern California, Hawaii and Florida. There are some avocado types that are more tolerant of cold, but none survive freezes....

  • How to Plant Green Pepper Seeds

    Green pepper seeds need to be started indoors six to eight weeks before the last frost. Only warm weather areas can seed green peppers directly into the garden. Picking green peppers during their...

  • How to Plant Loquat Seeds

    The loquat tree is a common sight in the southern parts of the United States including Florida, California and Louisiana. It is a mid-sized tree that produces small yellow fruit sometimes called...

  • How to Transplant Thornless Blackberries

    Transplanting thornless blackberries is a project that begins in the fall and is finished in the spring. It is a bad idea to simply dig up a cane for transplanting. Doing so can damage the root...

  • How to Planting Carrot Seeds in Container Planters

    Carrots are a pain to weed in a normal vegetable garden. They are much easier on the back to grow in a planter. Planters provide the same soil mixture control and weeding benefits as gardening...

  • How to Pollinate a Watermelon Plant

    Melon plants produce both male and female blossoms on each plant. In order for a watermelon to grow in a garden, a male flower must pollinate a female flower. In standard gardens, this pollination...

  • How to Prepare Green Pepper & Strawberry Seeds to Plant

    Before attempting to grow green pepper and strawberry plants, give the seeds the best chance to produce a healthy and bountiful harvest. Peppers, for example, are prone to fungus in the soil if...

  • How to Plant Pomegranate Seeds

    The pomegranate tree has a long history, originating in areas that stretch from the Mideast to northern India. It was raised by cultures in Asia, Africa and Europe for centuries, and used in much...

  • How to Get Pomegranate Trees to Bear Fruit

    Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) is a shrub or small tree with evergreen leaves and deep red fruit that is similar in appearance to an apple. Bright, red flowers adorn the shrub, making the...

  • How to Sow Beet Seeds

    The common beet has something more than a common history. Both the ancient Greeks and Romans grew beets and harvested the leaves for medicinal purposes, with the Romans beginning to cultivate the...

  • When to Plant Peppers From Seeds?

    Pepper plants are popular for gardens. Peppers are generally easy to grow and maintain; they produce beautiful, waxy plants; and the colorful peppers add a bright spot to any garden. Moreover, you...

  • Curry Leaf Plant Care

    The curry leaf plant is a common ingredient found in many regional types of Southern Indian cooking. While it prefers a warmer climate, it can successfully be grown as a houseplant with proper...

  • How to Make a Trellis Support for a Kiwi Vine

    Kiwi vines have rounded, green leaves, small yellowish-white flowers and oblong fruit that is covered with tiny brown hairs. The shiny, bright green flesh of the fruit has a taste similar to...

  • What Do Budding Potato Plants Look Like?

    Potatoes are one of the most prominent crops commercially harvested in the world. The tubers---called potatoes when dug up---grow on the roots of the potato plants.

  • How to Plant Peppers From Seeds

    Both hot and sweet peppers are commonly grown in the home garden. As long as the weather stays warm, peppers are reasonably low-maintenance, agreeable plants. Though planting seedlings from your...

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