Articles [Home & Garden]

Rooftop gardening is quite challenging, but the idea is not new but has become very popular now with the city dwellers since they are able to utilise the precious place available for a green haven .. History When we go back into the history of...

From our traditional home gardens, gardening has changed a lot. It has already taken so many faces, still undergoing new experiments everyday! Landscape of buildings itself have changed a lot. From traditional roses and hibiscus colours, now it has...

Decorate your house with season plants Summer season is  nearer. Most of the people in this season try to make their home cool and they decorate their home in such a manner. According to the season, they arrange curtains and furniture. So do...

About garden. A garden is a nice way to increase the beauty of your home. It does not matter weather garden is internal or external. In the process of developing a garden, you need to show your full dedication and hard work. Suppose you think that...

Is it necessary to have a large plot of land for a vegetable garden?. Yes, it’s necessary to have a large plot for a vegetable garden if the vegetables are meant for a commercial purpose or if one has a huge joint family. But not for personal use...

Tray gardens I remember the good old days while we used to live in big houses rather very big houses which were allotted to engineers of agriculture department with acres of land in three sides of bungalows and front lawns parted with a road as...

Plants have many many enemies. They come in all conceivable shapes and sizes. Thrips, Grasshoppers, termites, chewing and sucking lice,  Slugs and snails, Wireworms, caterpillars, crane flies. Eelworms and the list goes on. In fact 75 percent...

I happened to see the glass enclosed Cactus garden at Bangalore, developed and maintained by the University of Agriculture at Hebbal and was totally impressed by some of those magnificent specimen.Among the 200 odd specimens they had , some...

Poly house for nature lovers Poly houses also known as greenhouses are only options for urban nature lovers who live in high-rise buildings or no open spaces available for growing flowers or vegetables or even fruits. One can built such poly...

Herbs are versatile. They are intriguing. They arouse our curiosity. From flavoring agents for our foods to curing our illnesses, Herbs touch all most all the spheres of all of us in one form or other.For India herbs are not new. Herbs were in...