You don’t need a large garden bed or a field 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. Growing potatoes in containers or pots is easy and fun. Just choose an appropriately-sized container, give it sufficient…
When to Start Vegetable and Flower Seeds Indoors
Many gardeners like to start vegetable and flower seeds indoors during the winter months. It gives us a chance to shake off the winter blahs, keeps us focused on our favorite hobby and we get to eat tomatoes and peppers before our bought-seedlings-at-the-nursery-center neighbors do. To the novice, seed starting can be intimidating, but it’s really…
Are Your Lawn and Garden Chemically Dependent?
Your lawn and garden simply don’t need chemical fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides. In fact, these chemicals weaken your plants. What your plants need is properly managed soil, which is not as difficult or mysterious as it sounds. Good Soil Management Reduces the Need for Fertilizers and Pesticides In the vegetable and fruit garden, different plants have different needs. Some,…
Crop Rotation Basics For Your Vegetable Garden
Crop rotation is one of the oldest and most effective strategies for organic pest control and maintaining healthy soil in your garden. Specifically, it means the planned order of vegetables or fruits in garden beds; avoiding planting the same crop (and the same family of crops) in the same space for a two or three-year period; and knowing what…
How to Start Garden Seeds Indoors A Basic Technique
I can’t tell you how excited I am to start garden seeds indoors while there’s still a blanket of snow on the ground. Watching seeds germinate and seedlings grow, and looking forward to summer crops and beautiful blooms while the weather is dreary, brings life to an otherwise gloomy winter. Aside from helping me to…
The Complete Guide to Composting
When you start composting, it’s remarkable to see how much less trash you generate every week. For instance, in my house, with 2 adults full time and 2 kid on weekends, we went from 4 bags a week to 2, and sometimes 1 (we’re prodigious recyclers, too). Multiply that by the number of households in…
Can Gardening Save Your Life?
A meta-analysis of studies on gardening shows that short-term or long-term gardening can reduce depression, anxiety, and stress, elevate mood, regulate Body Mass Index, increase the quality of life, provide a sense of community, and improve cognitive function. Every gardener knows how great they feel after being outdoors among nature and tending to their plants….
Thrifty Mom Saves $8,000 Transforming a Bland Garden Into a Beautiful Haven All by Herself
A thrifty mother who turned to DIY has revealed how she managed to save a whopping 6,000 pounds (approx. US$8,000) on her dream garden. Deborah Williamson, 49, decided to take matters into her own hands after she was quoted 7,500 pounds (approx. US$10,000) for outside decking. “I thought it was ridiculous being quoted that much just…
Woman Spends 3 Years to Transform Home Into a Tropical Paradise: ‘It’s Very Therapeutic’
A plant collector has spent nearly $20,400 (15,000 pounds) renovating her house and garden with over 250 tropical plants. Hannah McFarlane, who lives near Winchester, Hampshire, bought her first home in September 2017 and wanted to completely transform the small garden into a tropical paradise. Inspired by her travels, she decided to use ideas from…
Video: Boy, 4, Eats Veggies Straight From the Garden, Has Amazing Memory for Food Facts
A precocious 4-year-old Alaska boy loves eating veggies straight out of the garden and can detail spot-on nutritional facts learned from his parents, and books, with every bite. The Anchorage family’s adorable videos of their little boy munching on the garden-fresh produce have gone viral, and social media users simply can’t get enough of him. Parents…
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