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…
If You’ve Always Want to Try, Composting is Easy The Tropical Grower is covering How to Compost at Home this week because we get a ton of interest from Growers and Non-Growers alike. If you’ve always wanted to try Composting, you’re going to be surprised at how easy it can be at home. Those negatives,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Growing A Healthy Corn Crop How do you successfully grow corn? It’s all in the planting. The Tropical Grower is taking a pause in our Fall/Winter Crop Update to post about planting corn? What? For most of you, this will seem a bit early. If you’re Growing Tropical, it’s time to get your seeds in…
