Outdoors At Home A blog about home living, especially outdoors.

If you like eating healthy fruits and vegetables or even wanted to have your own garden that won’t require you to use an assortment of chemicals, you have an option. The option comes in form of a hydroponic garden which requires neither soil nor chemicals.

Upon making the decision to do hydroponic gardening, getting the correct hydroponic nutrient formula is one of the most important… Continue reading

One of the best ways to add more space to your home garden is by transferring your horizontal and spread crops to a vertical growth system. Vertical gardening techniques are an excellent way to grow your vegetables, and can provide you with the same sort of production in a fraction of the space.

While there are a number of different methods that you can use to implement vertical gardening… Continue reading

The three most common types of hydroponic systems are – wick, water culture and drip system. These are available in the market in a pre-made form for a price but a person can also make a system at home. When the matter of buying a system comes the individual needs to understand the features of a product and its materials and quality as well.

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Have you been thinking about starting a worm farm of your own? What a wonderful idea!  Worm farming is an excellent way to produce your own high quality fertilizer for your garden and home as well as producing live bait for the fishing enthusiast. In fact, keeping your own worms will help to reduce the amount of waste your home sends to the local landfill by up to forty percent!… Continue reading

Patio sets are a welcome addition to any garden. They give you a comfortable place to relax in your garden and allow you to enjoy the outdoors just by stepping outside your back door. They can also be a focal point of interest in your garden if you make a feature of them. Here are some tips for doing that.

Quality Counts

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In the hustle and bustle of our daily lives, we all too often forget things that we need to do. Watering the plants is one of them. Unfortunately if a plant goes without water for even just a few days, it can die. Keeping soil moist in your plant pots is essential in maintaining a healthy plant. If you have done any type of potted plant gardening in the past… Continue reading

If you are after a durable garden furniture set but need a wide range of styles to choose from then synthetic rattan garden furniture might be a good option for you. All weather rattan garden furniture is affordable, stylish, widely available and durable.

Traditional rattan weave garden furniture is made from the rattan vine, but being made from a natural material… Continue reading

Most people purchase a mini greenhouse because they want to provide the perfect environment for their most beloved plants. Mini greenhouses are designed to promote optimal plant growth year round by providing a buffer against seasonal changes in temperature and light, though it’s not enough to simply place some plants in a greenhouse and wait for the magic to happen. Growing plants in a greenhouse is not a… Continue reading

If you find yourself contemplating options for improving your property such as increasing security, finding a way to spend more time out in your yard or garden area every day, combined with the idea of adding additional lighting to some areas, then look at what a great investment it would be to add garden lights as the solution. Choosing the kind of garden lights you would like to… Continue reading

Okay, so I can honestly say I don’t have a green thumb and never will. I couldn’t get my vegetable garden to grow this past year and I had no clue that what was growing on my grandmother’s plant was fungus! So after doing a little research I soon discovered how to get rid of mold from the plant.

One of the most important things I learned… Continue reading