How To Be A Better Gardener
As a conscientious gardener, you need to conserve water, learn about companion plants, and invite pollinators into your garden.
Home Garden Tips
Tips for growing your best organic vegetables, fruits, herbs, flowers, and perennials in your home garden.
Easy Ways to Make a Trellis For Your Vegetable Garden
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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Olla Pots Make Watering Your Garden Easy
Ollas are terra cotta clay pots buried neck deep in a garden. As soil dries, water is drawn through the walls of the olla to water plants.
How to Grow Peonies
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.
Scents and Edibles: Don’t Overlook the Flowers of Vegetables, Herbs, and Berries
Flowers of many vegetables, herbs, and berries are edible and can be used as cut flowers. They also draw a wide variety of beneficial insects.
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How to Grow Lettuce, Spinach, Kale, and Other Leafy Green Vegetables
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.
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How To Protect Your Back, Neck, and Knees When Gardening
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.
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Fall Gardening: Plant Seeds and Bulbs, Harvest Potatoes, Divide Perennials
Flower beds and vegetable beds need tuning up in the fall. Getting them ready for winter gives you a head start in spring
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No Compost Bin? Try Trench Composting
Trench composting is perhaps the simplest way of composting – just add kitchen scraps directly to your garden bed, no compost bin required.
How To Grow Dahlias
Tips on planting, growing, and storing dahlias. A long-lasting cut flower, the dahlia makes a great addition to any garden.