Using Urine as a Fertilizer in Your Home Garden
Is urine good for plants? Can you use your own urine to fertilize your flower or vegetable garden? The answer will surprise you.
Fall Is The Perfect Season For Planting And Transplanting
Every gardener knows that spring-flowering bulbs must be planted in the fall. But how about planting trees, shrubs, and other flowers? Or transplanting a struggling plant to a better location on your property?
EWG’s Dirty Dozen Fruits & Vegetables: How many can you grow in your garden?
The Environmental Working Group has released this year’s list of the Dirty Dozen, the 12 fruits or vegetables commonly available in grocery stores which carry the most pesticide residue.
How To Grow Carrots: Soil Preparation, Planting & Harvesting
The key to growing carrots in your garden is in the soil preparation, especially if you live in areas with rocky or clay soil.
Birds: A Gardener’s Best Pest Control
As we’ve moved away from our agrarian roots, we seem to have lost sight of the fact that birds are helpers, not pests, for gardeners.
How to Start Garden Seeds Indoors – Basic Technique
Starting seeds indoors is a great way to shake off the winter blues and to get a jump on the gardening season.
How To Build a Keyhole Garden
With a sustainable gardening technique called keyhole gardening, used in areas as dry as sub-sahara Africa, one can grow food year round.
Garlic: How To Plant, Grow and Harvest
If there is one plant-it-and-forget-it vegetable for your garden, it’s garlic. How to grow garlic, plant garlic, and harvest garlic.
Machete: The Greatest Multi-Purpose Garden Tool Ever
When I started gardening, I bought the requisite shovels, rakes, spades, cultivators, etc. Owning a machete never crossed my mind – I figured they were the domain of jungle explorers and movie villains – until I grew 7 foot tall sunflowers and started making my own compost.
Compost Tea Recipe to Supercharge Your Garden and Lawn
Compost tea is a perfect lawn and garden feed for those who want a liquid supplement for their plants and soil. Includes easy to make recipe.
