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Watering is the backbone of every gardener’s work. Breaks backs, too: save your efforts and recycle rainwater, use mulch, and more!

Gardener tending to a laden fruit tree in a sunny summer orchard garden

Do This to Your Fruit Trees in June or Regret It All Summer

The fruit Orchard
Rainwater collection systems

Rainwater systems: determine the size and design you need

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Caring for houseplants when away

Going away for a while? Tips for plant care when absent

Indoor plants
Irrigation systems for garden

Garden water systems to make life easier… and plants happier!

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Dry garden landscaping

In dry gardens, landscaping works wonders

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How to Clean the Leaves of Houseplants

How to Clean the Leaves of Houseplants

Indoor plants
Watering dracaena

Dracaena (Dragon plant) watering

Foliage houseplants
Lemon tree, get the watering right

Lemon tree, get the watering right, and the harvest will follow the flow!

Citrus
watering summer

How to water in summer, new routines and drip systems

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How to water when absent

Out for the holidays, how to deal with the watering

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Dead tree

Techniques to save a poisoned tree

Treating diseases and pests
Moisture and humidity with clay balls or pebbles

Clay pebbles to increase moisture around indoor plants

Indoor plants
Begonia leaves with drops of water on them

How to increase humidity in air for houseplants

Treating diseases and pests
Systems to water plants

Watering responsibly – we’re all involved

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Rainwater tank connected to gutter spout

Using rainwater for the garden

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Guttation, drop on leaves

Guttation, how plants deal with too much water

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Select plants based on climate

Climate-proof plants, select the right plants for your area

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Dracaena yellow leaves

Why does my dracaena have yellow leaves?

Foliage houseplants
The sun is reflected in a swollen bead of hydrogel balls.

Hydrogel water crystals to beat drought

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An impatiens remains potted but benefits from being in the ground for water and nutrients.

Pot-in-pot technique for easy annuals

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Two large pans filled with hydrogel water crystals crossed by an irrigation pipe provide a miniature man-made aquifer for plants.

Miniature man-made aquifer

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Olive trees can cope with drought even when in pots.

Drought resistant pot arrangements

Garden Flowers
Wooden bucket used to prepare fermented weed tea in.

Fermented tea, using weeds to make fabulous organic treatments

Treating diseases and pests
Eco-friendly garden

Ace your eco-friendly gardening practices

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Mulching and mulch

Mulch, a layer to protect and feed plants

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