How to Grow a Fall Garden: 9 Best Fall Crops
Learn how to grow a fall garden and enjoy the delights of fresh, homegrown produce right from your own backyard.
Vegetable Garden Projects
Learn how to garden with a variety of different garden methods to find what works for you with these fun inspirational vegetable garden projects.
Grow a foodscape garden, survival garden, or a micro-orchard right in your own backyard. Learn how to build your garden soil with a worm tunnel planted right in your garden beds.
Learn how to combat the typical spring gardening problems and get a head start on your garden for the year with helpful tips and tricks.
Discover how to attract pollinators to your vegetable garden for the best harvest ever. Learn about companion planting and how to start a square-foot garden.
Clever Ways to Incorporate Indoor Composting into Your Home
Discover how to do indoor composting with the right composting systems that work great for small spaces and apartment living.
How to Start Composting for the Garden: A Step-by-Step Guide
Harness the power of composting for the garden to create a more sustainable and productive garden with these tips and tricks.
The Ultimate Guide to Composting in Your Suburban Backyard
Learn how to create a thriving composting system right in your suburban backyard and discover the benefits it can bring to your garden.
How to Attract Pollinators to Improve Your Garden Harvest
The foods that we grow rely on pollinators in order to set the fruits and vegetables on the plants for us to eat. Since the past few years, our pollinators have been disappearing and our gardens are hurting. I have many friends posting images of their plants dying off and flowers falling to the ground due to a lack of pollination. While we have the ability to hand pollinate our gardens, we also have the power to attract pollinators to our gardens and help them feel welcome and make homes in the habitats we can provide for them. You don’t need an unkept lawn to attract pollinators, though you can do some simple things in your garden to help pollinators thrive. Let’s dive into how we can attract some daytime and nighttime pollinators to your garden so your garden is pollinated by both day and night shift workers in the garden. CLICK TO READ MORE.
Why Growing a Potato Patch Is Important for Survival
Growing homegrown potatoes in your backyard provides your family with a delicious healthy and versatile vegetable. You can turn a potato into so many recipes that these vegetables should be a staple in your yard and pantry. Growing a potato patch in just ten square feet can provide you with eighty to one hundred pounds of potatoes! Potatoes can be grown year round, stored long-term in their whole form, provide endless seed potatoes, versatile in dishes, and they are delicious. Let’s learn more about why growing a potato patch is important for survival. CLICK TO READ MORE.
4 Easy DIY Garden Soil Tests to Do Now
Perform these easy DIY garden soil tests and improve the quality of your soil by knowing which amendments you need to add for nutrients.
How to Avoid These Common Spring Gardening Problems
Spring gardening alone has many problems from unpredicted weather conditions, seeds not germinating, seedlings looking rather ill, confusion about when to plant, not planting the right varieties of plants for our area, planting plants too close together because they are cute and tiny in the beginning, killing seedlings during hardening off outside and spreading diseases with unsanitized tools, equipment, and containers. We have all been there and done many of these mistakes and I am guilty of these gardening crimes myself. Spring can trick us all into thinking that it is time to plant new plants and bring our indoor plants back outside and then the unspeakable sneaky frost swipes in unannounced to kill them all. This post will help better prepare you for your spring gardening and help you have a successful growing season. Let’s elaborate further on unpredicted spring weather conditions. CLICK TO READ MORE.
How to Do Companion Planting: Friends or Foes?
Plants that like each other, attract beneficial insects and pollinators to each other as well as repel pesky enemies to keep each other safe, happy, and healthy. Remember your tight-knit friend group in school when you all looked out for each other? Keeping your enemies out and your friends in is exactly the same thing that plants like to do too. When you keep their foes away from them, you will be preventing your garden from acquiring diseases and pests and find that you do not need extra help with chemicals just to be successful. If you skip companion planting in your garden, you are more likely to resort to using chemicals on your plants. CLICK TO READ MORE.