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How to Grow Bulbs and Rhizomes

Want Low Maintenance with a Big Bang?  We’re featuring How to Grow Bulbs this week at The Tropical Grower because Bulbs and Rhizomes are some of the easiest grows with super low maintenance.  They are almost a growing hack.  Growers, new and old, often overlook buying bulbs instead of the more traditional seeds or starter…

What's Bloomn', The Tropical Grower, Growing Tropical, Gardening, Flower Photos
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Take That, Hurricane Ian! Transformation.

Our Garden is Growing Strong The Tropical Grower is featuring Take That, Hurricane Ian! Transformation this week as we look at some of the major restoration that has taken place in Our Garden over the last 6 months.  Yeah, it’s only been 6 months.  If you haven’t seen the Hurricane damage photos, you can find…

How to Choose Between Seeds and Starter Plants
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How to Choose Between Seeds and Starter Plants

Here’s a Hint, It’s You! The Tropical Grower is covering How to Choose Between Seeds and Starter plants this week with tips on growing each type.  It seems like a natural progression.  After all, it is the final stage of your Spring Planting Plan.  Just as important as What you want to plant, is How…

How to Ace Your Spring Planting Plan
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How to Ace Your Spring Planting Plan

Your Plan is Made to Fit You  The Tropical Grower is featuring How to Ace Your Spring Planting Plan this week because the Actual Real Live Spring is here.  Whether you have an idea, most people tell me they want to grow their own vegetables, or a desire, like a hard crusty walkway that could…

The Tropical Grower, Growing Tropical, Gardening, Vegetables
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How to Make Raised Beds with Recycled Pots

Are You Ready for a Raised Bed?  Not a Builder? In honor of Spring prep, The Tropical Grower is featuring How to Make Raised Beds with Recycled Pots.  The hardest part about this project, in my opinion, was prepping the area of yard where I put them.  If you’re ready for a Raised Bed and…

How to Prepare Your Garden for Spring
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How to Prepare Your Garden for Spring

It’s Spring!  Almost. The Tropical Grower has been Preparing Our Garden for Spring the last couple of weeks.  Yup, it’s that time Tropical Growers, you should have already been in the yard.  While most of the rest of the country was still wrapped up tight and holding off their indoor seed sowing, we had a…

How to Repot Amaryllis Bulbs
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How to Repot Amaryllis Bulbs

Are Your Amaryllis Bulbs Breaking Their Pots? The Tropical Grower is featuring how to repot Amaryllis Bulbs this week because My Mom and I had to repot all ours this year, or really hers.  People grow Amaryllis Bulbs everywhere as houseplants, usually forced for Christmas.  We grow them in their preferred tropical climate, and they…

How to Grow a Tree from a Cutting
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How to Grow a Tree from a Cutting

Let’s Make Baby Trees! The Tropical Grower is growing trees from cuttings this week.  Yes, that’s correct, we’re taking branches from trees and making babies.  Have you ever wondered How to Grow a Tree from a Cutting? You know you’re a grower when you start doing weird stuff like this and call it fun.  Hold…

The Tropical Grower, Growing Tropical, Gardening, Vegetables
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Fall & Winter Crop Update – Vegetables

Fresh Vegetables Grown All Year!       The Tropical Grower grows food. Wait, didn’t we already cover this? Remember the words: immensely satisfying and joyous, about eating food I’ve grown? Yeah, still true. Welcome to the 2nd installment of The Tropical Grower Fall/Winter Crop Update: Vegetables. We’re happy to be eating the fruits of our labor or…