✅ Section: Setting up a garden 2025 January

Practical Gardener: the lesser-known nightshade

The nightshade family includes not only tomatoes and peppers, but also the more and more popular eggplant, pepino and bellows. Find out more about these extraordinary vegetables.

Practical Gardener: mini rock gardens that are easy to grow

Eye-catching mini rockeries deserve a special place on the balcony or terrace due to their unconventional beauty and considerable durability. This is how we select plants and containers.

Practical Gardener: November is marked by chrysanthemums

Chrysanthemum is a characteristic perennial that flowers beautifully in autumn, which can be planted into the ground, although it will also look great in boxes or pots, e.g. on the balcony.

Practical Gardener: raspberries with yellow fruits

Although their fruit is mainly associated with the raspberry color, an interesting alternative to traditional raspberries may be the yellow-golden variety 'Morning dew' with tasty and intriguing colored fruit.

Practical Gardener: autumn in the garden

At this time of the year, frosts can come practically overnight. We would like to remind you about important gardening work that must be done before negative temperatures permanently thwart our plans.

Practical Gardener: field maple for formed hedges

Field maples formed and planted in a row create an elegant and privacy-friendly cover. With low requirements, the field maple turns out to be an interesting alternative for a hedge.

Practical Gardener: asparagus farming without secrets

The asparagus season, lasting less than two months, is a real treat for lovers of he althy and fashionable vegetables. Learn the secrets of growing asparagus in your home vegetable garden.

Practical Gardener: where to plant snowdrops?

Snowdrops, which are a symbol of early spring, require conditions that are as close to natural as possible for their development. Here are the places where snowdrops have the best chance of growing for many years.

Practical Gardener: December preparations for winter

Nature is giving us stronger and stronger signals that winter can come almost overnight. Let's use the last clear days to organize not only the garden, but also the terrace, orchard and vegetable garden.

Practical Gardener: home-grown pumpkin

Remember about the specific requirements of this vegetable. Pumpkin grows most efficiently at high temperatures in well-drained, nitrogen-rich soils.

Practical Gardener: red on flower beds

The red color has a very strong influence on our psyche: it is alive, stimulating, it draws attention. Its presence at the discount is therefore very desirable. These plants cannot be missing from the colorful flowerbed.

Practical Gardener: sweet cherries from young shoots

Cherry fruit develop mainly on young shoots. Taking care of their proper number is one of the main treatments that make up the proper management of cherry trees.

Practical Gardener: time for chrysanthemums

The autumn-blooming chrysanthemums are just starting to impress with their beauty not only in flowerbeds, but also in containers or even vases. Meet the undemanding large-flowered chrysanthemum.

Practical Gardener: Perennials worth attention

The last days of spring are a great time to introduce new perennials to your garden. Japanese primula, narrow-leaved beekeeper and large-leaved brunner - these are our suggestions.

Practical Gardener: anise and carrot, forgotten herbs

Mentions about some herbs can only be found in our grandmothers' journals. We remind you of anise and carrots, forgotten, tasty and he althy herbs, forced out of our first aid kits by drugs.

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Useful and beautiful Amaranth (Amaranth)

Amaranth, known in Poland as amaranth, comes from South America. The Indians cultivated it already in antiquity - it was a sacred plant for them

Garden work in July - cutting, harvesting, fertilizing

These are the basic activities in July that will allow you to reduce the infestation of pests, increase your yields of vegetables and fruits, and manage your time in the garden accordingly.

Efficient and useful crop rotation

Thanks to a well-planned crop rotation, high yields can be maintained in the vegetable garden for years without the use of artificial fertilizers and plant protection products. Here's how to apply crop rotation effectively.

Late harvest of cruciferous vegetables

The harvest of cruciferous vegetables is in full swing and in the absence of frosts, it can last until December! In fact, it is only under the influence of prolonged cold that the leaves of kale or Brussels sprouts crumble and take on flavor.

Late Cabbage Harvest (Practical Gardener)

You should not rush to harvest the cabbage, even with constant night frosts. Frozen heads are best suited for immediate pickling, but they do not tolerate longer storage.

Late cruciferous vegetables

The beds in the vegetable garden are almost completely empty. Only the latest brassica plants remained. The eye-catching heads of white, red and Italian cabbage, Brussels sprouts and beautifully shaped kale leaves.

Gilded holly

They differ from typical representatives of their genus mainly in the yellow color of the leaves. Some of them also bear the color of the sun, so desirable in every winter garden. Here are golden holly.

Clematis 'Stefan Franczak' (Silhouette)

Clematis are considered the most beautiful garden climbers. Their flowers appear in spring or summer, and many varieties re-flower buds after the first abundant flowering. Meet the 'Stefan Franczak' variety - recommended by the Polish Nurserymen Association.

Clematis - climbers for sun and shade

Their colorful flowers decorate the garden from spring to autumn. We can easily find a suitable variety for various positions, sometimes even not very plant-friendly. Clematis form a very graceful and undemanding group of plants. There are sun, shade, container and discount varieties among them.

Clematis beautiful and he althy

Many wonderful clematis varieties are very delicate plants and are sensitive to diseases and pests. Fortunately, resistant, strong and brilliantly flowering forms were also grown

Perennial clematis

Thanks to the enormous popularity of climbing clematis, it was also possible to promote a fashion for less known perennial clematis.

Clematis 'Grunwald' PBR (Silhouette)

Large-flowered clematis delight with their beauty and amaze with the abundance of flowering. These relatively small climbers with thin shoots and fine leaves during flowering can charm any plant lover. They create wonderful colorful clouds suspended on various types of garden supports. They are also easy to grow.

Guide: choosing and caring for a Christmas tree

Whether real or artificial, the Christmas tree is a unique symbol of Christmas. We advise on how to choose and care for a tree so that it emphasizes the Christmas atmosphere for as long as possible.

A breeze of spring - blooming winter flower and viburnum!

Even on a winter day, a walk along the garden paths can give us a lot of satisfaction, especially when the first flowers are already blooming. It's time to draw energy from evolving nature!