No-Dig Gardening: Grow Vegetables Without Picking Up a Shovel
A no dig garden lets you grow vegetables year after year without the back-breaking work of digging and turning over the soil.
Companion Planting: Flowers, Vegetables, Herbs and Fruit are Better Together
Companion planting is not a new idea or trend. It’s been done for centuries, from kitchen gardens in ancient Persia to modern industrial farm fields.
How to Protect Fruit Trees From Birds
Growing fruit can be one of the most rewarding gardening experiences. until birds steal your crop one day before harvest. Here are a few tehniques that will keep the birds out of your fruit trees and shrubs.
Companion Planting Deters Insects, Mice, Rabbits, and Moles
You hear a lot about companion planting to deter rodents and pests. But is there any truth to it? Yes, especially in deterring insect pests.
How to Use Beneficial Insects Against Unwanted Insects In Your Garden
Use “good bugs” to prey on the “bad bugs” in your garden to devour enough of them so that your plants will have a chance to recover.
Cover Crops For Gardens – All Regions
Cover crops protect soil from weather extremes, are used between crops to restore fertility and suppress weeds, and to protect garden beds left unplanted.
Optimize Fruit Tree Soils for Best Production
Of all things necessary to grow fruit trees, soil is the most overlooked. It plays a key role in the health of fruit trees and in how much fruit they bear.
Organic Control of Spotted Lanternfly
Spotted Lanternfly (SLF) is an invasive species from Asia, first spotted in the U.S. in 2014. It is very destructive to fruit crops and landscape plants.
Beekeeping 101: How to Start an Urban Beehive
Keeping bees in a town or city may seem like a strange idea, as our first thought may be that bees would thrive best in the countryside. But it’s a fact that bees in an urban environment are more healthy and productive than bees found in the country.
Review: Growing Perennial Foods – A field guide to raising resilient herbs, fruits, and vegetables
Growing Perennial Foods is squarely aimed at the beginning gardener with the basics on how to grow the most common perennial vegetables, fruits and herbs, many of which we think of as annuals.
