Tips on how gardeners can protect their bodies and backs from injury when stretching and bending for long periods early in the season in their garden.
How To Protect Your Back, Neck, and Knees When Gardening Read More »
Flowers & Perennials, Vegetable & Fruit Gardening
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 »
Flowers & Perennials, Gardening Tips For Beginners, Vegetable & Fruit Gardening
Trench composting is perhaps the simplest way of composting – just add kitchen scraps directly to your garden bed, no compost bin required.
No Compost Bin? Try Trench Composting Read More »
Composting, Flowers & Perennials, Vegetable & Fruit Gardening
Is urine good for plants? Can you use your own urine to fertilize your flower or vegetable garden? The answer will surprise you.
Using Urine as a Fertilizer in Your Home Garden Read More »
Flowers & Perennials, Vegetable & Fruit Gardening
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 »
Flowers & Perennials, Gardening Tips For Beginners, Landscaping, Vegetable & Fruit Gardening
Tips on planting, growing, and storing dahlias. A long-lasting cut flower, the dahlia makes a great addition to any garden.
How To Grow Dahlias Read More »
Flowers & Perennials, Gardening Tips For Beginners
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.
EWG’s Dirty Dozen Fruits & Vegetables: How many can you grow in your garden? Read More »
Food, Vegetable & Fruit Gardening
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 »
Gardening Tips For Beginners, Vegetable & Fruit Gardening
From the Monkey Face Orchid to the Corpse Lily, here are ten of the weirdest flowers in the world.
10 Of The World’s Weirdest Flowers Read More »
Flowers & Perennials
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.
Birds: A Gardener’s Best Pest Control Read More »
Landscaping, Weed, Disease And Pest ManagementWith some careful planning you can easily incorporate a garden pond into your outdoor space, no matter how small or large your landscape.
Garden Design: Incorporating a pond into your landscape Read More »
Garden Design, Landscaping
Starting seeds indoors is a great way to shake off the winter blues and to get a jump on the gardening season.
How to Start Garden Seeds Indoors – Basic Technique Read More »
Flowers & Perennials, Vegetable & Fruit Gardening