Articles on growing organic vegetables and fruit without synthetic fertilizers or pesticides.
For beginners, starting your first vegetable garden can be intimidating. But fear not – follow these simple tips and you’ll be off to a great start.
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Get to know the soil requirements for growing blueberries in your garden, pruning techniques, how to plant them, and how to protect blueberries from birds.
Bags of garden fertilizer have three numbers on the label in bold: NPK. This is referred to as the fertilizer analysis or “grade”.
What do the NPK Numbers Mean on a Bag of Fertilizer? Read More »
Author and regenerative farmer Acadia Tucker explains how every gardener can plant a climate victory garden with perennial crops to slow climate change.
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Turnips are a good choice for the novice gardener as they are typically easy to care for and grow well with other root vegetables, such as carrots.
Planting a Climate Victory Garden gives each of us the power to feed ourselves healthy food, as well as act on the threat of climate change.
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Square Foot Gardening divides the growing area of a garden bed into a grid in which crops are planted. The method was popularized by author Mel Bartholemew in 1981.
Raised garden beds changed my gardening life. My back hurts less, I spend less time watering and weeding and I grow more fruits and vegetables in the same space.
A no dig garden lets you grow vegetables year after year without the back-breaking work of digging and turning over the soil.
No-Dig Gardening: Grow Vegetables Without Picking Up a Shovel Read More »
Companion planting is not a new idea or trend. It’s been done for centuries, from kitchen gardens in ancient Persia to modern industrial farm fields.
Companion Planting: Flowers, Vegetables, Herbs and Fruit are Better Together Read More »