The Household Garden Blog

Considerations When Planting up your Patio

Urban gardening is a practice that allows anyone to create their own, dreamy garden in even the most limited space, such as a patio or balcony.

What is the best type of soil for plants?

Getting to know your dirt is the perfect introduction, or reintroduction, to gardening that you didn’t know you needed.

Quick Guide: Vegetable Gardening for Beginners

With even the most limited garden space, it is not impossible to grow a lush vegetable garden that will provide a small crop for you all year round. 

When and How to Plant Seedlings

Growing your own plants from seeds is a rewarding and profoundly empowering experience, especially if the plants you are growing are vegetables. But many a gardener has stumbled when it comes time ...

The Best Plants for Pest Control

You don’t necessarily need insecticides, pesticides and other types of pest control, when you know how to use nature to take care of your plants.

Potted Plant Pests: A Quick Guide

Potted plants make the most beautiful accessories. Their bright colours light up a room, and there is always a sense of having a touch of nature in the home while when used in the garden they add a...

The Best Type of Grass for your Garden

Some types of grass need more attention than others. Some grass thrives in the shade while other types wither away and die when they don’t have enough sunlight.

How to plant a shade container

Shade can create contrasts in your lighting, and it can contribute to the look you are trying to achieve. You could opt for a shady forested feel or you could add a touch of colour, by using plants...

10 Common Plants Poisonous to Pets

Knowing the difference between your plants will not only help to ensure that you don’t end up planting something potentially lethal, but it can also help you to spring to action, should your pet ni...

What is Mulch?

Mulch, compost, fertilizer, garden soil. They might all seem to be the same thing, but they are really not. Each has their own unique traits and uses, and of them all, mulch is without a doubt the ...

Planting for Bees

With a few changes and the addition of some of new flowering plants to your garden, container or not, can change your garden’s purpose from being something beautiful to look at to an eco-friendly h...

Watering outdoor potted plants: What you need to know

Potted outdoor plants add that special something to a garden, while they look equally magnificent on a veranda. But although many people choose to include potted plants in their landscaping and as ...