Do You Really Need to Remove Dandelions?
Dandelions can be challenging to deal with, but it is possible to remove them effectively and organically.
Home Garden Tips
Tips for growing your best organic vegetables, fruits, herbs, flowers, and perennials in your home garden.
Polytunnel Gardening: Everything a Beginner Needs to Know
You can use polytunnels in your garden to extend the growing season of fruits and vegetables, protect plants from extreme weather, and grow plants not adapted to your climate.
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Tips for Successful Window Box Gardening
Window boxes are not just for colorful flowers to enhance your home’s exterior. They are also great for vegetable and herb gardens.
How to Keep Skunks Out of the Garden
The key to a skunk-free yard is to make it as unattractive to skunks as possible. Here are tips on how to keep skunks out of your garden.
How To Build a Garden Wall
Building a garden wall is something you can do yourself, but you’ll need to think carefully about techniques, materials, and costs.
A 3-Minute Composting Primer
Composting is an essential part of organic gardening. It’s the ultimate recycling of all those grass clippings, food waste, and yard waste. It also adds organic matter to your soil which nourishes the soil food web.
How to Grow Potatoes in Containers
You don’t need a large garden bed to grow potatoes. You can grow potatoes in containers on a balcony, deck, or patio and get a decent harvest to enjoy in late summer or fall.
How to Save the Most Common Garden Seeds
Saving seeds of most garden vegetables and fruit is pretty easy. It just requires a little patience and a sacrifice of one or two of your best tomatoes, peppers, melons, squash, or other crops for the seed harvest.
Hellebores: Growing and Care Guide
Hellebores are also known as Lenten Rose because their nodding, rose-like flowers appear in late winter or early spring around Lent (the season of Easter). As one of the earliest flowers to bloom, it’s a welcome reminder that winter is on its way out.
How to Grow Cabbage in Your Garden
Cabbage is a popular vegetable for fermenting and canning and is easy to grow in your garden. It has many shapes, colors, and leaf textures.