Garden paths are essential for anyone who is fully bent on eradicating grass from the yard. You might not think that is your goal—but if you are a hard-core gardener, just watch how fast a small flower bed project can turn into a yard makeover. This happened in my yard this spring. What started as a little bed next to ...
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Community gardens are, more or less, just what they sound like - large garden plots tended by the entire community. Most often, the large plot is divided into sections, and each section is tended by a different gardener. Community gardens are great places for people living in apartments, townhouses or other areas with little yard space to grow fresh fruits and vegetables, cut flowers and herbs. Community gardens sprout mostly in urban ...
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Photo by JoePhotoAugust is here, with full force. That means that people all over North America will be doing the “squash drop and dash.” What, you might ask, is that? The squash drop and dash is a vegetable delivery technique practiced by vegetable growers with fleet feet. Summer squash plants, including zucchini, crookneck and patty pan squash are prolific producers. They ...
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Butterfly conservatories are a favorite tourist attraction in any city lucky enough to have one. You don’t have to wait for a vacation to a far-off place to enjoy bountiful displays of butterflies! Planting a backyard butterfly garden is easy and fun. The key to raising your own butterflies is to grow plants for the larva to eat, for holding the chrysalis, ...
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Photo by Randy Son of RobertVines are climbing or trailing plants that must have support to grow vertically. They may be annual or perennial, evergreen or deciduous, herbaceous or woody. Vines can fit into the tiniest spaces , provided their roots are firmly planted in the soil, and grow vertically and/or horizontally with great flexibility.
Clinging Vines
Clinging vines can attach themselves almost anywhere by ...
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As an organic gardener, you know that the soil is the most important factor in creating a successful garden. Rich healthy soil means healthy, beautiful blooms and juicy vegetables.
Compost
Compost is made from decayed organic materials such as straw, grass clippings, newspaper, leaves, certain food wastes, spent plants, hay, chipped trees/brush, and farm manures. You can easily make your own compost using a bin, tumbler ...
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Choosing what flowers to put where can be a fun and exciting part of gardening. That said, it can also be one of the most frustrating experiences you'll ever have. With a huge selection of seeds, plants, and bulbs available, how do you decide what's best for you?
Research is the best way to figure out what you want and if it'll work in your garden. There are a ton of ...
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Composting in your garden is very easy to do, and adds free fertilizer and conditioner to your garden based on your kitchen and garden wastes. You can throw any acceptable materials to your compost pile. However, to achieve quick and optimal compost, it should be well balanced with green and brown waste materials.
Why? Think of compost as a diet for your soil microorganisms which will do the actual work of ...
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To grow great-looking, healthy blooms, take a look at your garden soil. Flowers grown in poor soil make for sad plants. Always have a little pile of composted manure in some outer corner. This is very convenient when you may be planting just a few plants at a time. A pile of manure is priceless when it comes to soil improvement. Use an inch of this black gold as ...
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The fun of container gardening is sometimes in the variety of containers that are available, from simple stone or well-weathered terra cotta, to the most elaborate urns from generations ago.
There are so many plants that are available for container gardening, such as 'The Fairy' a petite rose well suited for container gardening. This rose bears pale pink blooms from late spring until frost. The Stachys (lambs ears) will appeal to ...
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