I Used To Have A Brown
Thumb. I tried raising all sorts of plants, and no
matter what type of plant it was they ALWAYS died!
I tried
planting rose bushes, and before the beauties could even
bloom the bushes had become dried sticks without a touch of
green.
I tried
planting corn, squash, beans and all sorts of vegetables and
my garden didn't even produce a single kernel. Not even
enough food to feed an ant. Believe me, I am sure that
the ants and bees were laughing their heads off at me as
they searched for food elsewhere. They sure weren't finding
anything to eat in MY YARD!
I figured maybe
because I was living in Georgia, where red clay was a
problem then I would try potted plants instead. I tried
flowers, and they died. A friend suggested that I try
growing a cactus, so I did, the cactus died. HOW CAN YOU KILL A
CACTUS???
Someone else
suggested that I try an Aloe Plant, because these things
were indestructible. A friend gave me an aloe plant and the
poor thing was dead within 3 months. Needless to say my
friends quit suggesting things for me to grow. One even told
me that if I got a fake plastic plant, with my luck, it
would probably die too!
I so
desperately wanted to see a little lively green plant
growing happily in my home. I wanted fresh vegetables for my
table. All I found instead was bad luck, wasted money, and a
lot of ceremonies where I would go outside, and somberly say
goodbye to yet another dead plant.
Then one day I discovered air plants!
I was at a
craft show, and a lady there was selling air plants that
were OH SO BEAUTIFUL!
She said NO ONE
could kill these plants. She told me that all they needed
was to be hung in the bathroom, and the steam from the
shower would provide all the nutrients they needed. NO DIRT!
NO FERTILIZER! They needed nothing except a moist
environment that is provided in any bathroom.
I was as happy
as an ant on a hill of honey when I got home with my new
plants. I purchased 3 beautiful air plants, hung them neatly
in my bathrooms and basked in the joy of FINALLY seeing a
thing of beauty growing in my home.
That is until they
died.
All three of
them, yes all three, died. Within a month they were gone,
dried up, dead, 3 more somber ceremonies. So much for my green thumb.
By this time
even I myself was too scared to get a plastic plant. It
would probably dry out and die on me too then I would probably have to cut both of
my thumbs off!
I gave up on
growing plants for years after that. The air plants were my
last attempt, and I had given up for good. I swore to myself
I would NEVER again try to grow another plant for as long as
I live.
Then one day I
was searching the internet for information about knitting. I
stumbled across a gardening forum where ladies were knitting
plant pot covers. One of the ladies had a picture of the
most beautiful tree I had ever seen in my life! A dark red
Japanese Maple tree that had a breath taking beauty that I
had never seen before in my life.
I HAD to
have one!!
This tree was
so beautiful, I found myself craving one for my own yard. I
wanted one so badly that I spent
months researching Japanese Maples and how to grow them
successfully.
Japanese
Maples, I found, are very expensive. I wanted to learn all I
could about them before I purchased my own, because I wanted
to MAKE SURE that my Japanese Maple would not
die!
Yes, silly me
decided to try again, and this time not on a plant that
costs just a few dollars. I was getting brave and preparing
myself to try and grow a plant that costs over $200 dollars
for the large ones.
I
read forums, looked up gardening articles, and tried to find
as much information as I could about Japanese Maples online.
Sadly, the
information I located dealt mostly with maintaining them
once they were already established and growing successfully.
I needed information on how to keep one from DYING before it
got established in my yard and I
could not locate this information
ANYWHERE!
I checked out
books in the local library, and had no luck. I searched for
days, hours at a time, and could not find the information I
needed.
I decided to
look for older gardening books, and THAT is when my search
was over! I found a slew of old gardening books written in
the 1800's that answered EVERY question I had about
growing trees, fruits, vegetables and flowers that I could
dream of.
The American
Gardener is one of those books, and the main one that helped
me in learning everything I need to know about growing any
plant I can dream of under the sun!
The American
Gardner was written in 1854 by William Cobbett. It is now in
the public domain and has been converted into electronic
format for your enjoyment.
The American Gardener provides over 150 pages
of helpful gardening how to information, and tips that will
help you grow plants with ease without them dying like they
did on me!
Even if you're
a professional gardener, you'll find many tips to help
better your growing success!
Here's What
You'll Find In The American Gardener:
- Choosing the
right location on your property for growing plants. You'll
find in depth information on slope of your land, and what
spot is best for growing successfully.
- Preparing
the soil properly to provide nutrition for healthy plants.
- Fencing
techniques for your garden. I LOVE this section. The
author provides humorous techniques for using hawthorn
trees as fencing, to keep troublesome lads from stealing
their fruits and vegetables! You do
not need to spend hundreds for a chain link, wooden or
brick fence. Use hawthorn trees and with a
little love and time you'll have a fence that will make
your neighbors green with envy!
- Designing,
or laying out, your garden so that it's pleasing to the
eye yet functional as well.
- You'll learn
how to make hotbeds, so that you can start your vegetables
earlier in the season and have edible produce as many
as 15 days earlier than normal! This can be a
moneymaker if you sell produce. Be the first in your
neighborhood to have fresh green tomatoes and
watermelons!
- Learn the
benefits of operating a hobby greenhouse, and how it can
be beneficially to your household.
- Learn about
true seeds and the soundness of seed. You'll learn how to
test seed before you plant them, to determine if you have
good seed or bad. Some seed will not grow if it's bad, and
by using a simple technique you can throw out the bad
instead of laboring with planting them only to find no
lovely sprouts growing where they were sowed.
- Learn proper
methods for saving and preserving seed. I find this the
most fun of gardening! I now save seed regularly and have
a yard full of beautiful blooms from seeds I have saved
and sown.
- Learn proper
sowing methods to improve your seeds germination rate, and
to ensure healthy plants. Proper spacing and depth can
mean success or failure in the garden!
- American
Gardener provides proper transplanting methods, to ensure
your plants survival when moving from one area to another.
This is the chapter that covers the
information I was looking for, to ensure my Japanese
Maples survival. I now have two Japanese Maples
growing successfully in my yard, and what beauty they both
bring!
- Cultivating
your garden properly and methods for tilling, trenching
and sowing to ensure your gardens success.
- Learn
propagating methods so that you can grow many more plants
form just one stock plant. Learn propagating from
cuttings, by grafting, by using stock tress, by budding
and by layering. All of these are easy and fun methods
that you and your family are sure to enjoy!
- There is a
nice section on growing grapes in minimum space while
producing so many grapes that it'll make your mouth
water!
- Learn how to
successfully grow 81 different vegetables and herbs, 26
tasty fruits and nuts and the most popular flowers and
shrubs with the most gorgeous blooms!
You are sure to love the
information, guidance and tips provided in American
Gardener!
I have used
this information for myself, and now have a yard full of
beautiful trees, flowers and plants instead of a mass plant
graveyard!
This type of
information has helped me in so many ways. I now have 5 rose
bushes growing successfully in my yard including the coveted
Don Juan rose that now grows below a beautiful catalpa
tree.
This past
spring I planted a successful vegetable garden that provided
enough produce to feed 5 families for 2 months and
provide many bags for our freezers! My second fall garden
was planted just last week and is already sprouting many
tiny plants for a second harvest. All this was planted on a
piece of plot that measures not more than 20 feet by 40
feet!
I had so many
cucumbers growing that I could not even can them all I had
to give them away! My zucchini's were so huge that they had
to be shared with my in laws and my mother, because we
could not eat them as fast as they grew.
My flowerbed
has lavender, dianthus, clematis, daisies and many odd
plants growing beautifully.
My verbena has taken over our drive; it's
outgrown its bed!
I now have
2 Japanese Maples growing
successfully. One a glowing embers the other the coveted
bloodgood (the most beautiful tree on the planet in my
opinion).
I have hundreds
of boxwood that I propagated from cuttings, growing
successfully beside my cuttings beds. My Azaleas are rooting
successfully now, and they are
LIVING!
I have come a
long way from where I could not even keep an air plant
alive, the where I am now growing plants with no roots in
just a box of peat moss and sand!
My success is thanks to books like the
American Gardener.
All the
information you'll need to get started is provided in the
American Gardener, no matter what type of growing success
you have had in the past you'll find tips and techniques to
improve your growing success in this manual!
You too can
grow successfully as I have, by increasing your knowledge
and putting these methods into practice today!
SAY NO to dying plants and SAY YES to success
now!
Download
immediately and get started TODAY!
