When planning an outdoor garden, regardless of what type of plants we are growing, the fundamentals of timing and outdoor conditions still apply. Planting too early or too late will not work very well, likewise too cold or too hot are also unfavorable at the wrong times in plant development. Slowing the metabolism of a young plant too much with cold temperatures will stunt its growth (this may be permanent). Putting young plants out in scorching summer sun will burn its leaves and will most certainly result in a discouraging failure. We will mostly be talking about photo-period strains for this section on outdoor growing, but we fully intend to…

The Essentials When I start the creative process of brainstorming and physical preparations, like starting to collect the necessary ingredients to successfully grow an outdoor garden, it makes me wonder, “where does this process actually start?” What actually needs to be bought? Can some of these ingredients be collected? This whole process can either be easy, or we can make it difficult. In reality, this is the truth and we actually only need to fill some very basic requirements to successfully achieve a high quality end product from your garden. Try to remember 6 essential nutrients, “if we have a nutrient source for each of these 6 we should be…