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Hand Pollinating Tomatoes

Tammy Clayton

Learning to hand pollinate is a no-brainer for the indoor gardener, but its a trick even those with a backyard garden or growing tomatoes in containers on the balcony, deck or patio should know how to do. You might wonder why you would need to pollinate tomatoes grown outdoors. They are self-fertile, meaning that both…

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More Water Isn’t Always Best

There are few plants that deal with excessive water, and most of them aren’t desirable for food or ornamental uses. Not properly managing moisture can cause all kinds of problems for the indoor gardener. Its especially troublesome in container growing, much more so when the heat of the sun and the drying breeze is missing…
March 23, 2013
Tammy Clayton

How To Make Your Own Organic Fertilizer

If you’re like anyone else, you have a continual supply of food waste that is being thrown away. That’s not just money down the drain, but the start of free nutrition for your garden plants. Its organic too, as long as you use only food scraps that were organically grown. Trace elements of GMOs and…
March 14, 2013
Tammy Clayton

Food Deserts, Kids & The Future of Sustainable Living

Like many a parent, I always assumed that learning about growing food was something best left for when kids were older. Wrong! A lesson learned on a simple outing to entertain a 3-year old with a budget of zero. Perhaps it all went down like it did because grandparents have more time to dream up…
February 20, 2013
Tammy Clayton

Exactly What Is the Problem Here?

At the first sign of plant stress, in both indoor and outdoor gardening, the less experienced grower does one of two things. Either they pour on more fertilizer, or increase their watering. So it shouldn’t be surprising at all to learn that the most common problems in the indoor hydroponics garden are also related to these…
October 23, 2012
Tammy Clayton

Great Hydroponics Ideas, But…

There are some really cool ideas for indoor gardening floating around the internet. To the unaware, they might not work out that well. DIY hydroponics setups are hot. A great looking idea that is really creative or has great artistic aesthetics gets shared on tons of blog and magazine type sites. It’s exciting to see…
October 17, 2012
Tammy Clayton