How To Plan & Grow Your Own Organic Veggie/Flowerbed Garden

Easy DIY Planting Guide For Your Home Garden

I remember my grandmother always having her own little herb garden in front of our house.

She didn't really teach me how to do it but I learned how to do it with YouTube gurus and occasional gardening books.

I read that Cinnamon, Honey, and powdered Aspirin are great rooting agents.

To start, I used a baking tray with cotton pads and some sterile potting soil, also wrapped seeds between paper towels and kept that in a sandwich bag. The last experiment was propagating coriander in water.

The best results were propagation in water and wet paper towel in a sandwich bag. I guess peat moss in a baking tray was exposed to microbes and mold, killing seeds before germination.

I went to the DIY shop to get some Peat Moss, which many sites rave as the best alternative. You can also try making your own with some of these recipes - https://balconygardenweb.com/homemade-seed-starting-mix-recipes/

Most supermarkets also carry herb seeds and garden flower seed.

Moving on, I needed to decide how to plant my flowerbed and where would I like my blooms to greet me every time I walk in and out of the house.

I got the blueprints of my home and recreated my real-life home in one of my all-time fav games - The Sims! it took some time but I managed a fully decorated sim simulated garden with cyber plant growth.

I wanted to be exact so I even included my home furniture to know how much space has already been used, and how much space was left for my garden design.

Real-life view of my outdoor lawn where I decided to put most of my DIY garden. You can see some tree "crutches" because trees get "Tree Shock" when they are uprooted and moved for replantation.


In the far back, you will see a greenhouse of netting, made for our own organic veggie farm. We grew spinach, cabbage, kailan, & bok choy.

That's it for now. I hope you guys will be inspired by this humble post and start your own garden.
It's not only good nutrition for your family, but it also reduces pollution as you don't need heavy transport to deliver these organic veggies to you.

Good luck & green thumbs up!

Royce's Garden - How To Grow Your Own Garlic

HOW TO GROW YOUR OWN GARLIC - A GROWING PASSION

Living in a concrete jungle makes us more used to neon signs and plastic items. Sometimes, I feel the sharp lines and harsh borders that make up our cosmopolitan environment gives me mild Claustrophobia. I really miss the ambiance of nature as we move towards modernization.

One nightmare was frightening to me, I was flying in the city, but no matter how high I flew up the glass buildings, the facades wouldn't give way to blue skies but became a blank neon blue screen. I woke up to the realization I need some Nature energy in my life.

If you've got unused garlic in the fridge that seems a bit dried out. Don't throw it, break up the bulb into little cloves and soak that in water.

Being stored in the fridge will trick the Garlic into thinking it was just winter, when you take it out to soak, the temperature change triggers the sprouting process.

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DAY 1: Take garlic out of the fridge, skin is removed and garlic cloves broken up and soaked in warm, PURE water (filtered or bottled water is good, tap water is chlorinated which is bad for seeds), leave in warm area to soak for a few days. Seeds do best when only 50% is in water and 50% above surface.

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DAY 3: Learnt from YouTubing-Gardeners that CINNAMON POWDER or HONEY are excellent rooting hormones. They have antifungal properties which keeps the cup from stinking and protect seed from infection. Garlic roots quickly proliferated and sprouts reached cup height.

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DAY 5: Garlic shoots have reached out of the cup height and roots seem crowded in the plastic cup. Time to transplant the cloves into the ground and hopefully each will turn into a full bulb.

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DAY 7: For transplantation into a spacious pot, I got good cheap ones from DAISO and MR. DIY shops. so the roots can establish themselves. Using a mix of peat moss + compost + potting soil. (This is the most successful mix so far for sprouts)

I buried each clove about 2 inches deep into the soil. They have been very happy since and I have not had to tend to the batch at all. Will update with actual pictures soon.

NEXT UPDATE: Garlic Shoots -1 Month Later 

NEXT GARDEN POST: Royce's Home Veggie & Flowerbed Garden Planning

(Royce's Garden Before Landscaping)

I will be sharing my garden design plans using The Sims 3 home builder. The fun links to download some tropical plant skins and other awesome freebies.

I plan to share my own process of learning the gardening skill, doing my part to elevate our global natural environment.