One great advantage to herb gardening is that many herbs are perennial, so that once you have the garden established you will be able to harvest it for years. Here’s a few tips on getting a perennial herb garden established and producing for you.
Maintaining a landscape can be a drain of both environmental and monetary resources. One of the best things you can do is to design a landscape that requires less water to maintain and flourish. Here’s a look at a range of ornamental grasses that need much less water to survive and do well.
Squirrels can be a pest in all sorts of places. That helps explain the popularity of items like squirrel proof birdfeeders. But another area where they can be a big nuisance is the tomato garden. Here’s a handful of tips and ideas to keep squirrels from eating your tomatoes.
Small in size, but destructive and a real pest, mealybugs can be a problem both inside and outside the house. Here’s a look at some organic ways to kill mealybugs.
Choke weeds are one of the most persistent of weeds in the garden. Here’s a look at how to kill choke weeds in your garden.
A compost pail or crock is a great way keep the kitchen waste headed to the garden compost bin out of sight and out of smell. Here’s a look at what to look for in a compost crock.
If you want an outdoor fire pit, and don’t want to spend the money on a fire pit table, the take a look at building a fire pit. Here’s some tips and a video on building a fire pit.
Insecticidal soap is one of the more common organic pest controls. It is used for controlling a variety of pests like spider mites and aphids. Many gardeners like to make their own soap. Here’s a look at the advantages and disadvantages of making your own insecticidal soap.
If you are just getting started with you home garden, you’ll want to be sure to pick some crops that are easy to grow and give you a good chance of successfully getting crops from your first time garden. Here’s a look at 12 garden crops that most beginning gardeners can easily grow.
Some parts of the country are not blessed with a long spring growing season. For those areas it’s necessary to plant at least some crops that like warm or hot weather. Here’s a look at several warm weather favorites for the garden.
Strawberries are one of the favorite fruits grown by home gardeners. Growing strawberries in the garden is not that hard, but it varies a little from one region of the country to another. Here is a look at how to grow strawberries in New England.
Chicken manure can be a great source of fertilizer on your garden. But you want to take care to use it properly. If you have access to someone with a chicken coop here are some tips on how to use compost chicken manure and use it as a fertilizer.
One of the most versatile garden tools are garden trellises. They serve to make an attractive addition to the landscaping, or they can work to increase yields like tomato trellises. Here are a few more uses for garden trellises that make them one of the most overlooked garden tools.
One type of vegetable that is not grown as often as it should be is celery. Celery is not as hard to grow as many people think. Here are some tips on how to grow celery.
We are all looking for some way to extend the growing season in our gardens. There are a whole host of garden tools used to extend the season, from garden cold frames to start seedlings to cloches to get those early season tomatoes going, there are a lot of tools developed over the years to get more out of your garden,
If you are looking for garden tools for a gift, or are looking for a good starter garden tool set if you are just getting started, here are some tips on what to look for to get the best deal for the money.
