Caring For Roses: Planting, Watering, Fertilizing, Pruning
The basics of caring for all types of roses including planting, watering, fertilizing, deadheading and pruning to enjoy beautiful blooms year after year.
5 Benefits of Organic Lawn Care
For a long time, lawn care has been done with dangerous chemicals, but there are a lot of organic lawn care products that will give your yard new life.
Growing Organic Blueberries in Your Garden
Get to know the soil requirements for growing blueberries in your garden, pruning techniques, how to plant them, and how to protect blueberries from birds.
What do the NPK Numbers Mean on a Bag of Fertilizer?
Bags of garden fertilizer have three numbers on the label in bold: NPK. This is referred to as the fertilizer analysis or “grade”.
Review: Growing Good Food: A Citizen’s Guide to Backyard Carbon Farming
Author and regenerative farmer Acadia Tucker explains how every gardener can plant a climate victory garden with perennial crops to slow climate change.
How to Grow Turnips: From Seed to Harvest
Turnips are a good choice for the novice gardener as they are typically easy to care for and grow well with other root vegetables, such as carrots.
How to Plant a Climate Victory Garden in 4 Steps
Planting a Climate Victory Garden gives each of us the power to feed ourselves healthy food, as well as act on the threat of climate change.
Mistletoe: Why We Kiss Under It and Why Animals Love It
One of the most legendary of holiday traditions is kissing under the mistletoe at Christmas and New Year’s Eve. But why exactly do we do that?
Is Your Fresh Cut Christmas Tree Truly “Green”?
Plastic Christmas tree or real Christmas tree? What is the best environmental choice? We have a study that solves the carbon footprint question.
What is Square Foot Gardening?
Square Foot Gardening divides the growing area of a garden bed into a grid in which crops are planted. The method was popularized by author Mel Bartholemew in 1981.
