Gardening basics for beginning gardeners. If you’re intimidated by the process of how to start a garden, here is your path to success. Learn composting basics, how to build soil with organic matter, essential garden tasks, and tips on growing vegetables, fruit, annuals and perennials.
Garden trellises save space, make vegetables and fruit easier to harvest, decrease the chances of disease, and offer better aesthetics in the flower garden.
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Chamomile may be the easiest herb on earth to grow. Most herbs are pretty simple – plant, prune, contain. Chamomile, with its delicate, apple-like aroma, self-seeds year after year and also happens to be a great host for beneficial insects.
Peonies are one of the most beautiful flowers to bloom in spring and brighten any garden in pink, purple, red, white, yellow or a combination of colors.
One of the first crops I harvest from my vegetable garden every year are young leafy green vegetables. Spinach, kale, head lettuce, leaf lettuces, arugula, bok choy and domesticated dandelion are among my favorites, and together they make a great spring salad or stir fry.
How to Grow Lettuce, Spinach, Kale, and Other Leafy Green Vegetables Read More »
Garden fertilizers are meant to feed your plants and soil amendments are meant to improve your soil. But sometimes they overlap.
Garden Fertilizers vs. Soil Amendments – What’s the Difference? Read More »
Flower beds and vegetable beds need tuning up in the fall. Getting them ready for winter gives you a head start in spring
Fall Gardening: Plant Seeds and Bulbs, Harvest Potatoes, Divide Perennials Read More »
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?
Fall Is The Perfect Season For Planting And Transplanting Read More »
Tips on planting, growing, and storing dahlias. A long-lasting cut flower, the dahlia makes a great addition to any garden.
The key to growing carrots in your garden is in the soil preparation, especially if you live in areas with rocky or clay soil.
How To Grow Carrots: Soil Preparation, Planting & Harvesting Read More »
Winter can be absolutely punishing on garden plants. Damage can be reduced if you do a little extra preparation in late fall.