Plant Gardens 101

A grow closet is a type of grow box which is designed to look and function like an ordinary closet. The only thing that differs grow closet from an ordinary closet is that it has these customizations that would make it function as an indoor growing box for plants. In other words, it’s a closet where you can grow your plants. Grow closets are usually small, compact and lightweight. It is meant to be compact for the purpose of saving space and to be able to fit it anywhere inside your house.

Just like any other grow box, a grow closet can have a hydroponics system or simply just have a space where you can put your pot of plant. It has plant lights installed to serve as artificial sunlight for plants, lightproof reflector interior wall to keep the light inside and maximize the light exposure of your plants, and it also has a ventilation system to ensure a cool temperature inside the grow closet. Basically, these are the common parts of a grow closet. There are also grow closets that has extra special features installed in it such as hydroponics grow system, odor eliminators, wireless temp humidity gauges, total dissolved solids meter, and CO2 generators. All these mentioned parts are special features that would make your grow closet more conducive for plants to grow. Also these parts are installed to make your indoor gardening experience more convenient and hassle free. (more…)

Indoor gardeners are agog with the introduction of the latest LED grow light to hit the market–the Supernova LED. This family of LED grow lights offers improved light output for a fraction of the cost of using HID or other ordinary types of grow lights. Gardeners are impressed with its light coverage, increased light spectrum control, and cool running temperatures, among a wealth of improvements it brings to ordinary grow lamps.

The Supernova LED grow light offers an increased light coverage when compared with other LED grow lights. While other good LED grow lights offer a three foot by three foot area with good light coverage, the Supernova LED adds an additional two feet to that, for a total of five square feet of coverage area. All this light comes from a lighting unit that is space saving yet very powerful. The Supernova LED grow light achieves this large coverage through the clever use of seven individual circuit boards. This allows the light to flow out of the unit at different angles, and this unique design provides for its improved light coverage that your plants will appreciate. (more…)

Begonia family
Begoniaceae
Bee-go’ni-a. An immense genus of tropical herbs with soft or succulent stems.

Description
Leaves alternate, often brightly colored or with colored veins. Flowers red, pink, yellow, or white, slightly irregular, the male and female separate.

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Growing roses is both an art and a science: as my gardening aunt used to say, “…it’s six of one and half a dozen of the other!”

As a rose grower myself and author of a gardening website, I get many questions about why a certain rose bush has failed or what a person might be doing wrong. Over time, these many mistakes people make, began to fall into five major categories.

The five major rose growing mistakes that most people could avoid!

1. Planting in the wrong location:
Before you actually dig the hole for your new rose bush, consider the location. It will need six hours of good light including some time in the sun. It will need healthy soil where water drains well and other plants and trees haven’t taken over with their own roots. Not in the shade of a large tree, or over a concrete pipe or in a pot small enough for a geranium! Take time to choose the right location. (more…)

A natural high-phosphorus fertilizer made from crushed and powdered animal bones. It works more slowly than the chemical fertilizer superphosphate. Like the latter, it is often used at planting time because phosphate stimulates root growth.