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The efforts of the entire gardening season can be nullified in just a few winter months. Improper vegetable storage turns crunchy carrots, juicy potatoes, and fragrant onions into tasteless or even rotting mush. Why does this happen?..

As a rule, self-respecting manufacturers provide all the necessary information about sowing and seed germination on the back of a bag of seeds. But what if it is completely absent or differs from firm to firm?..

Coniferous plants are the decoration of any garden. Their evergreen needles delight the eye even on the gloomiest winter days when everything around is fast asleep. However, even hardy and unpretentious thujas, pines, spruces, and other conifers need care...

Do you want ornamental plants not only to decorate your garden, but also to be of practical use? Plant a Chinese lemongrass! Its edible fruits are very useful and have tonic properties. This unusual vine goes by several names: Chinese Schizandra, Manchurian Lemongrass and Wu-Wei Tzu (it means "berry of five tastes" in Chinese). Indeed, first of all, the Chinese lemongrass is valued for its medicin..

Plant and forget? Alas, there are not so many problem-free perennials. And the most beautiful of them are especially demanding. In order not to feel sad in the spring over a frozen or broken bush, let’s find out which plants will need help first in November...

Various junipers, these evergreen coniferous shrubs from the Cypress family, are widely used by professional landscape designers and amateur gardeners as decorative garden and park plants. They are drought-resistant, low-maintenance, and undemanding to soil...

Conifer seeds behave differently: some quickly and easily germinate immediately after sowing, while others, being at rest, require exposure to cold, i.e. stratification. This artificial process mimics what happens in nature to seeds after they fall to the ground in the fall...

Every experienced gardener knows that a garden plot is beautiful with greenery not only in spring and summer. The true beauty emerges in the autumn months—when shrubs and trees in the garden are painted in all shades of gold, purple, copper, crimson, orange, burgundy, bronze, and even violet…..

Strawberries, honeysuckle, cherries, wild strawberries, blueberries, currants - with what impatience, missing the benefits and taste, we wait for the very first fresh berries of the season! Already the first summer month pleases us with an abundance of these small juicy fruits, and some berries ripen even in May. But the end of the season is also a rich "berry" time. And it is still unclear whe..

Pumpkin is truly one of the most decorative ornaments of any plot. It is impossible not to notice it. In addition to its external attractiveness, it has many useful properties and is used to prepare a variety of tasty and nutritious dishes...