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Gardening Basics

Ask Our Experts: What is your pH when using H&G?

We asked H&G expert Eliab Lozado “What is your pH when using H&G?” I am trying to keep it in a narrower target zone: 6.0-6.2. Rationale: 6.0-6.2 pH is the range where Calcium & Magnesium seem to be more available to a plant in relation to the rest of the essential elements for plant life. [...]

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The Role Of Enzymes In Plants

What is an Enzyme? An enzyme is an organic substance made up of amino acids, proteins, or RNA. Enzymes carry out specific chemical reactions by acting as catalysts, speeding up reactions tremendously and lowering the amount of activation energy required by the plant for these processes. Therefore delivering enzymes to your plants promotes increased growth [...]

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How To Grow Herbs With Hydroponics

Are you an herbalist at heart? Are you interested in learning more about the many wonderful uses for hydroponic herbs? Would you like to grow and prepare fresh herbs right in your own home? Hydroponic gardening is one of the easiest ways to grow herbs, and you can enjoy fresh basil, chives, mint, rosemary and [...]

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House & Garden Nutrients: Drip Clean

Salt buildup in the root zone can cause numerous difficulties, reducing plant growth and vigor by altering water uptake and causing toxicities or imbalances.  Only House & Garden’s Drip Clean uses ionic bonding to safely remove excess salt molecules from the soil or growing medium, preventing salt buildup and allowing plants to thrive. Originally designed [...]

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Foliar Feeding With Magic Green

House & Garden’s Magic Green is the leading foliar spray fertilizer and provides essential nutrients for plant growth. With every spray, Magic Green forms a protective film on the leaves  helping to protect the plant against external threats. This product will nourish your plants from the outside in, helping to green-up plants in all phases [...]

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House & Garden Nutrients: Cocos A&B

House & Garden’s Cocos A&B contains a precise blend of minerals that are specifically designed for use with House & Garden’s Coco Substrate.  Our precise blend helps to optimize the uptake and assimilation of nutrients, promoting higher levels of photosynthesis and growth. Composed of the purest ingredients available, Cocos A&B contains a full range of [...]

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The Role Of Nitrogen In Plants

  Nitrogen is an essential macronutrient needed by all plants to thrive. It is an important component of many structural, genetic and metabolic compounds in plant cells. It is also one of the basic components of chlorophyll, the compound by which plants use sunlight energy to produce sugars during the process of photosynthesis. Increasing the [...]

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Guide to Growing in Coco

Coco coir is the outside layer of husk that surrounds the shell of the coconut. After coconuts are harvested, the fibrous husk is removed from the coconut seed. From this husk, three main horticultural coir products can be produced: coir chips, coir fiber or coir pith/dust. Coir dust retains water well while the fibers and [...]

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