How to Test The Viability of Garden Seeds
Not sure how old that packet of seeds is? Use this simple test to learn if your garden seeds are still viable.
Home Garden Tips
Tips for growing your best organic vegetables, fruits, herbs, flowers, and perennials in your home garden.
Rhododendrons: Guide to Planting, Growing, and Care
There’s good reason that Rhododendrons are one of the most popular landscaping plants in the world. Their long life, beautiful flowers, unique, mostly evergreen foliage, beautiful shape, and ease of care make them a reliable standout in any perennial garden.
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When Is the Best Time to Prune Trees and Shrubs?
Pruning trees and shrubs can be challenging. In spring we’re anxious to tidy them up when the best thing for the plant may be to leave it alone.
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Why Do Tree Leaves Fall in Autumn?
Why is it that some tree leaves change color to red, orange and yellow and drop from trees every fall?
When to Plant Spring Flowering Bulbs
Spring bulbs, also known as hardy bulbs, create some of the showiest flower blooms in the garden from late winter to early summer.
How to Grow Strawberries in Your Garden
Strawberries are one of my favorite fruits to grow in my garden. Depending on what types of strawberries you plant, you can enjoy fruit almost all season.
Breck’s Garden Tools: Rosewood Pruners & Hori Hori Knife (Review)
Breck’s has two excellent tools you should consider adding to your garden toolbox: their Rosewood Bypass pruner and the Hori Hori Knife Ultimate Garden Tool.
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How to Build the World’s Easiest Cold Frame
How to easily build a cold frame in 20 minutes with leftover materials. Cold frames are used to protect tender seedlings from weather extremes.
Can Gardening Save Your Life?
A study shows that gardening can reduce depression, anxiety, and stress, elevate mood, regulate BMI, and improve quality of life and cognitive function.
Amish Farming and Gardening Secrets and Why They Work
The Amish make the most of their farms and gardens, working the land with centuries-old techniques.
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