Category: Plants
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How to Grow Strawberry Plants Indoors.
Strawberries are a very important fruit in our little chateau. They can be grown outdoors seasonally but indoor they can fruit two to three times a year. For this reason we like to grow them both indoors and out. Growing strawberries indoor is a little different than growing them outside as they don’t need to…
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How To Grow Baby Carrots From Any Carrot Seed
Last summer the baby planted all of his carrots seeds from one packet in a small planter box in the garden late in the growing season. The result was cute little tiny baby carrots. The reason for this is that baby carrots like the ones you fine at the store are just full size carrots…
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Indoor Olive Tree Care
Another year as come and gone and with it has come the joys and challenges of growing an olive tree indoors. Lucky they only challenges we had last year was a bird flying by the window and taking our last olive branch with olives growing on it. Other than that an the day it dried out…
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Aloe Vera Plant Care
How To Care For Aloe Vera Plant We have a little Aloe Vera plant that is already producing its second set of pups. We transplanted the first set and now have little Aloe Vera babies all over the house and now we are about to have more. Aloe Vera is a wonderful plant that has…
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5 Ways To Freeze Fresh Garden Herbs
Since our yard in the new house is mostly made or bricks and astroturf we have been growing most of our garden goods indoors. Items like tomatoes, olives, ginger, and more. The items we have been growing the most both in doors and out are herbs. Our herb garden has gotten so large that we…
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Blossom End Rot. What It Is And How To Stop It.
If you’re reading this you have most likely noticed that the ends of your tomatoes looks like something that happens in your garden nightmares. They ends are rotting off at a very fast pace and seem to be spreading to the rest of your tomatoes as well. Well don’t worry what’s happening to your tomatoes…
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How To Propagate And Plant Mint From Store Bought Cuttings
Mint is a very good plant to have around a chateau it helps with stomach ailments, is refreshing, is very aromatic, and taste heavenly. When we first moved to Ireland one of the first things we did was bought a mint plant and we soon established a small into and outdoor mint garden. Only in…
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How To Grow A Mandarin Orange Tree From A Seed.
Last year the baby decided he wanted to try and grow a mandarin tree from seeds he found in one of his oranges. He carefully collected all of the seeds from a couple of oranges and asked if we could grow them. Growing citrus plants from seeds isn’t as easy as growing other edible plants…
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How To Care For Calamondin Tree Indoors
We have a calamondin tree here at Our Little Chateau that always has oranges on it. Flowers come and go all year round even in the winter. We get a lot of questions as to why and how we get our indoor calamondin tree to fruit all year long. Since we have gotten the tree…
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How To Grow Thyme In Containers
We grow a lot of herbs in pots here at Our Little Chateau but I think the one that gets the most attention is the Thyme plant. I admit it is very interesting to see a small/medium size bush growing in a pot inside a chateau. On trimming days it is even cut into cut…