Home and Garden Experiences

As you can see by the pictures, I have a beautiful crop of rhododendrons in one of my gardens. I look forward to the spring every year when these plants bloom. The flowers the rhododendrons produce are absolutely stunning and gorgeous. It took me a few years to nurture the plants to produce such a plentiful and breathtaking flower. Once I got it mastered, everything fell into place and my rhododendrons flourished ever since.

Rhododendrons plant at home

Rhododendrons in the garden

Rhododendrons at home

Rhododendrons can be small shrubs or very large shrubs depending on how you prune them and the amount of space they have to grow. If they are crowded by other trees or shrubs, the rhododendrons will not expand to their full potential. I have seen them get to 15 feet tall. The plant can have different color flowers depending on the variety you get. I have purple and pink flowered rhododendrons in my garden.

The location of this garden is in my back yard where the rhododendron plants do not get full sun. They only get maybe a half day of sun.
One of the best secrets to making my plants look great is not only frequent watering but frequent fertilizing. Particularly I use Miracle Grow plant food. The recommended amount is about once every 14 days. I use the plant food anywhere between 7 and 25 days.

I have provided a link for you to order some Miracle Grow plant food for yourself.

Thank you and enjoy

If you start growing plants from seeds, you can re-use used toilet paper rolls to start your seeds growing.  This article explains how to recycle toilet paper rolls and paper towel rolls to use in starting your plants from seed.
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e planted three cucumber plants this year. Last year we planted three as well, but lost two to frost very early on in the season. This year we lost one so we were net gain of an entire plant.

As young plants when they only had two leaves on the whole plant, their small leaves turn white and start to curl up underneath themselves Read the rest of this entry »

Author: Bare Bones Gardener

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n Today’s throwaway society, there is absolutely no need to go out and purchase mulch material for your garden, unless it is for the particular aesthetic appearance, “The Look”, sake of the mulch material.

Were you aware that there are a number of mulching materials that you can obtain from around your own community that are free, and some of which can even be even delivered to you for nothing as well? Read the rest of this entry »

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fter tripling the size of my garden from 8 foot square last year to 8′x24′, I extended my single 50′ soaker hose to three 50′ soaker hoses connected end-to-end to support the larger garden however, the hose became quite unwieldy. Having to straighten out the entire 150′ of soaker hose was becoming a nightmare with the whole hose moving when small sections needed to be rearranged knocking over plants in the process. I will detail the steps I took to remedy the situation by building a hose manifold from common parts found at the local hardware store to create a number of short runs of hose that are much easier to manage and control. Read the rest of this entry »