✅ Section: Plant care 2025 January

The Practical Gardener: The busy middle of summer

A perfect substitute for classic balcony plants is the camellia called the Japanese rose. Get inspired to change your green surroundings with the Practical Gardener!

Practical Gardener: running a hedge

At the beginning of summer, gardeners face new challenges - planting plants that are sensitive to cold and keeping a hedge or lawn are just some of them.

Practical Gardener: winter plant suggestions

In winter, the gardener only seemingly does not have much to do. Harvesting winter vegetables or making decorations from holly are examples of tasks that can nicely break a winter routine.

The Practical Gardener: A busy beginning of July

Fighting mosquitoes, caring for the olive tree, improving the taste of grapes and the fertility of vegetables - these topics are discussed in the article below from the Practical Gardener series.

The Practical Gardener: Useful Activities as a Remedy for Boredom

Only seemingly January equals no work in the garden. Bleaching trunks, caring for wintering plants or caring for winter vegetables are effective remedies for boredom that affects gardening enthusiasts.

Practical Gardener: busy November

Plenty of activities await plant enthusiasts in November - some of them concern the care of plants in gardens, orchards or vegetable gardens, other flora grown at home or on terraces. Time to roll up your sleeves!

Practical Gardener: tree problems in winter

If a tree has difficulty producing he althy leaves and flowers every year after winter, the conditions are too demanding for it. The location of the plant in a frost pool may also be a problem.

Practical Gardener: work at the end of July

The season is high, so work continues. Rock garden, useful dragonflies, chokeberry and plants that can replace potatoes on your menu - these are gardening tips for the last days of July.

Practical Gardener: tips for January

January is a good time to take care of evergreen plants in homes or gardens before spring arrives. At the beginning of the year, it is also worth devoting time to preparing the surroundings for early spring.

The Practical Gardener: Holiday Tips

Are you planning to make a pond on your own, but you don't know how to go about it? Do you want to learn how to plant asparagus? For advice, see the text from the series

Practical Gardener: ideas for a decorative garden and water

Although the season has already started for good, May is still a good month to carry out many arrangement works, such as planning a rebate, pond or balcony development.

Practical Gardener: the beginning of summer in the garden

Summer has just replaced spring, let's emphasize it in the gardens or on the terraces! Replacing bulbs in flowerbeds or arranging flower pots are just some of the prepared tips.

Practical Gardener: wicker fence

When pruning a willow, it is worth keeping cut shoots, wintering them and using in spring as a building material for a rustic fence. Such a fence will perfectly match the surroundings, guaranteeing privacy.

The Practical Gardener: The basics of cutting fruit trees

Consciously guiding the fruit tree, you should choose the date and technique of cutting to the condition of the specimen and the desired effect. Here is some basic information on cutting fruit trees.

Practical Gardener: we care and cultivate

Sowing, cultivating, nurturing, arranging - the gardener does not have time to be bored in spring. Whenever the weather allows, we recommend that you consider one of the following tips for landscaping.

Practical Gardener: care for indoor plants

At the end of November, most of the gardening responsibilities move home - caring for plants kept at home for winter is just the beginning of the tasks that we should do.

Practical Gardener: maintaining water lilies

Diverse leaves and sumptuous white flowers on the surface of the water characterize water lily, easy to care for aquatic perennials. Here is all the information you need for successful breeding.

Practical Gardener: full of duties early September

September heralds the fast arrival of autumn, which requires many gardeners to prepare the plants in the garden for the end of the season. We invite you to get to know the most important of them.

Practical Gardener: October cleanup

Digging up bulbs, picking the last fruits, preparing compost and covering the remaining vegetables with fleece - the beginning of October brings a lot of work in the garden.

Practical Gardener: be careful with compost material

Own compost from organic residues is an ecological way to improve the breeding conditions in the garden. However, not everything is compostable. Here's what not to compost.

Practical Gardener: gardens, balconies and terraces in autumn

With low temperatures, October may be the last moment to do many activities preparing the garden, balcony or terrace for winter. Check what else needs to be done.

Practical Gardener: chillies on the balcony!

We can add some varieties of chillies between the tomatoes, citrus and herbs grown on the balconies. Expressive taste and versatile use - this encourages home cultivation.

Practical Gardener: a dangerous pest - the fruiting body

Fruit pests are one of the most dangerous groups of pests that feed in fruits. The caterpillars of these moths damage the fruit of, among others, apple and plum trees, digging the corridors inside them and eating the flesh.

Practical Gardener: final preparations before spring

Milder weather in February may result in a rapid awakening of plants to life. So prepare for an accelerated start to the season by doing the following gardening work.

Practical Gardener: last chores before winter

Permanent frost effectively limits the number of activities that can be performed in gardens. However, there are several treatments that are worth performing even at the turn of November and December.

Practical Gardener: periodically checking the pH of the soil

Checking the pH of the soil every 2-3 years and reacting to its possible sterilization is a key element of successful plant cultivation. We use Hellig's fluid to test the quality of the soil. Here's how to use it.

Practical Gardener: deterring voracious animals

In the early spring, many animals venture closer to human habitats in search of food. These trips result in considerable damage to fruit trees and shrubs. This is how trees should be protected.

Practical Gardener: rejuvenating strawberry plantations

The full fruiting of strawberries takes 3-4 years, after this period the crops produced by the plant will not be abundant. However, it is enough to download new seedlings from it to re-create a he althy strawberry plantation.

Practical Gardener: natural protection against winter

Trimming dried perennials and shoots is one of the treatments performed in late autumn. In ornamental grasses, however, it is better to leave them for the winter. This is why.

The Practical Gardener: protecting plants from frost

December is the last moment to protect sensitive plants from frost, dry wind and drying winter sun. We advise on how to take care of garden plants in winter.