Know how to compost in an apartment balcony and what kitchen wastes can be composted. Many people are living in an apartment and have a limited garden in their balcony, while many other garden lovers have their garden on the terrace. They buy compost and manure from market. Although they are aware of the importance of adding compost, the organic fertilizer to the soil, they are hesitant to start their own composting. Each of us generate a lot of kitchen waste every day that can be converted into compost free of cost to feed our plants.

The mango tree can also be propagated from cuttings taken from a healthy mango tree. However, growing a mango tree from stem cuttings has a low success rate. A mango tree can easily be grown from a seed with a very high success rate. The fruit from the seed grown tree will be worse, identical or better fruit than the parent plant. But can mango cuttings be rooted really?

Frangipani (Plumeria rubra) is native to tropical and subtropical Pacific Islands, Caribbean, Central America and Mexico. It can tolerate subtropical climate also. The Hymenosporum flavum frangipani is a rain-forest tree, native to New Guinea and Queensland and New South Wales in Australia.

Continue reading below to learn how to grow frangipani tree from cuttings and how to care for a frangipani tree growing in ground or a potted frangipani including watering, fertilization, pruning and pests and diseases.

Moringa oleifera is an easy to grow drought-resistant deciduous tree which needs no special care. Read below to learn how to grow a moringa tree (drumstick tree) from seeds, also caring tips on growing moringa tree in containers.

The tree is known as moringa, drumstick tree,  सहजन (sahjan) in Hindi, horseradish tree and benzoil tree [1].

Learn how to grow an avocado tree from seed from the detailed step-by-step instructions given below.

Avocado (Persea americana) is a nutrient-rich fruit containing healthy monounsaturated fats, and vitamins C, E, B6, and potassium, magnesium and folate. The monounsaturated fat per 100 gram of avocado is 9.8 gram while only 2.13 gram of saturated fat. The potassium content of an avocado is more than that in banana, 485 mg per 100 gram as compared to 358 mg per 100 gram of banana [1].

Rubber plant (Ficus Elastica) is a popular indoor house plant. Their leaves are very attractive. If you wish your rubber tree to have a vertical look, then do not prune it. Slim and tall rubber plants are good for rooms with high ceiling. But if you prefer a lower bushy look, then you should prune it. You can prune a rubber plant to give it a desired shape. A bushy rubber plant looks good on a table or table shelf.

Learn why training and pruning a mango tree is important and when, and how to prune a mango tree including a mango seeding and a mature mango tree.

Mango trees (Mangifera Indica) can grow as high as 20 feet and more. Several years ago, my yard had many old mango trees, all more than 20 ft high. They were never pruned in 20 years so they became huge, both in height and width. The trunk of each tree was more than 15 feet high. Also the production of mango fruits in each tree was too less.  It used to be very difficult to harvest the mango fruits from them. A person used to climb the trees to pick the fruits.

Magnolia tree (Scientific or Botanical name: Magnolia) of Magnoliaceae family, is native to East Asia and the Himalayas, Central America and eastern North America.  It is one of the most magnificent of the fragrant trees, the Southern Magnolia (Magnolia grandiflora) is very fragrant.  It is named after French botanist Pierre Magnol, Professor of Medicine and Botany at Montpellier.

Continue reading below to know all the magnolia tree facts including magnolia tree types, fertilizer for magnolia and how to care for magnolia tree.

Read below to learn about the reasons of a mango tree not flowering and fruiting and the methods and sprays to force a mango tree to induce fruits on a not-fruiting mango tree.

Some mango varieties bear fruits every year and some in alternate years. The mango trees of age 10 years and more may fruit only alternating years. There are many mango trees that fail to produce any fruits for several years, actually their fruiting cycle is disturbed. So what to do to make the trees bear fruits or how to increase flowering in mango tree? What to do if the mango tree does not produce fruits? There are several reasons for not fruiting and there are some methods to induce flowering and fruiting in "off" years.

Normally vegetables are grown from seeds. But there are some vegetables that can be regrown from kitchen scraps.
Are you new to gardening? Do you often fail to grow vegetables and herbs from seeds? Then continue reading below to find details on how to regrow plants from scraps, grow from cuttings, and a list of such foods that can be regrown again and again. For example, you can regrow coriander from roots after cutting from coriander you buy from supermarket.
There are many advantages of regrowing foods from scraps.