If you’re like most people, you probably have a box of baking soda in your kitchen cupboard and/or in your fridge This simple, useful, natural product has so many uses in health, personal care … [Read more...] about 30 Ways To Use Natural Baking Soda In The Garden

Traditional Weigela is an attractive shrub, producing abundant bell-shaped or trumpet-shaped flowers in the springtime and blossoms sparsely during the early summer. The genus Weigela is named … [Read more...] about Growing Weigela: How To Care For Weigela Planting, Selecting, Pruning

Irrespective of whether you are a beginner or a guru in growing vegetables, making mistakes is inevitable. You might not repeat the old mistakes, but you’ll always commit new ones each and every year. … [Read more...] about 8 No No’s In The Vegetable Garden

Let me ask... Would you like to have a hummingbird garden? Do you love to watch hummingbirds feeding in a frenzy? Would you like to learn How To attract more of them to your garden? Find out how … [Read more...] about Hummingbird Garden: How To Make Your Backyard A Hangout

The use of plastic sheeting or mulch in the garden proves to be a useful tool for some garden crops. Many crops do well with the support of plastic sheeting and plastic mulch. These innovative … [Read more...] about How To Use Plastic Sheeting And Plastic Mulch In The Garden [PROS & CONS]

So you're interested in growing bell peppers! We find bell peppers in red, green, yellow and purple, plus they are loaded vitamin A and C. Another nice fact is that the crop cycle is not very … [Read more...] about Growing Bell Peppers For Gardening Beginners

Having fresh herbs right outside the door takes fresh to a whole new level. The vertical herb planter has removable shelves and is easy to build. Use bagged potting soil or a raised bed garden … [Read more...] about How To Make A Vertical Herb Planter Step By Step

If you compost, you already toss banana peels into your compost pile or compost bin. But, there are a number of other banana peel uses both as a natural fertilizer and as a natural pest repellent … [Read more...] about Banana Peels In The Garden – (12 How To Ideas And Uses)

There is something about the fresh smell of a flowering lemon tree. Lush, dark green, oval leaves shining in the sunlight. Their fragrant, white blooms, sweet smelling and alluring quality makes one … [Read more...] about Lemon Tree: How To Grow Lemon Trees From Seed

Do you want a rich, vibrant garden? This super collection of five items can supercharge your soil and improve garden growth. The solution may be hiding in your kitchen! Discover how fish bones and … [Read more...] about 7 Simple Solutions For Supercharging Your Garden Growth

The Tomatillo plant, an odd-looking distant tomato cousin and one of the essential ingredients in Mexican cuisine, especially recipes of green tomatillo salsa. These wild growing central American … [Read more...] about Growing Tomatillos: How To Care, Grow And Use Tomatillos

Epsom salt has long been a favorite for many gardeners and for some it is a best friend. With the push towards more “green living” and organic gardening, Epsom salt has been growing in popularity. … [Read more...] about 10 Proven Uses for Epsom Salt In The Garden

Straw bale gardening has been growing in popularity. It's a unique way to garden that honestly, some people swear to... and other swear at. You'll have to make up your own mind. The concept of … [Read more...] about Straw Bale Gardening: 10 “Easy Growing” Reasons To Try It

Fire is an element that can cause great harm to the environment. However natural wildfires can actually be quite beneficial. Wood ash in gardening holds many nutritious elements for plants. It is … [Read more...] about 12 Ways To Use Wood Ash In The Home and Garden

Boron is a mineral salt with acidic properties. It is naturally occurring, and it is the only ingredient in Borax. This product has been around for ages, but borax uses go beyond its excellent … [Read more...] about 5 Clever Borax Uses In Your Garden

Let's face it... The word "mildew" means different things to people. To the gardener, "powdery mildew" is a fungi on vegetables, especially on cucurbits. To the homeowner, it may be any … [Read more...] about Powdery Mildew: How To Get Rid Of Powdery Mildew In The Garden

Most experienced gardeners do a good job in keeping their plants healthy but even with these efforts some plants are just not meant to grow next to the other. There are many reasons why these … [Read more...] about 27 Plants That Don’t Like To Mix It Up – Incompatible Plants!

Organic fertilizers high in nitrogen include manure, cotton seed meal, guano, and the by-products of slaughter houses - bone meal, tankage, and dried blood. The best organic fertilizer sources of … [Read more...] about Organic Fertilizer

Sphagnum peat moss first became available to gardeners as a soil amendment in the early 1900s. Since that time, the discovery revolutionized the way we grow plants. Sphagnum moss mostly came from … [Read more...] about Peat Moss: How To Best Use Peat Moss In The Garden

When soil requirements are specified for various kinds of gardening needs, reference is frequently made to "good soil," "ordinary garden loam," “good garden soil," or "good garden loam soil." For … [Read more...] about What Is Good Garden Loam?

With Spring offically here the vegetable, flower, grass fertilization and soon weed killer commercials will start popping up. In fact, fertilizer ads are already here. However, when things begin to … [Read more...] about Giant Wok Water Feature And More Favorite Gardening Blog Posts #16

Are you tired of using poorly-made garden hoses that can make watering your plants or cleaning your car is an uphill struggle? Your standard garden hose always kinks, the hose winder breaks, the … [Read more...] about What Is The Best Flat Garden Hose For Your Home?

The Potting Bench #14: A Collection Of Our Favorite Gardening Blog Posts Each and every day we find many interesting, educational, creative, idea-generating and inspiring posts. However, we never get … [Read more...] about Did You See This Collection? Our Favorite Gardening Blog Posts #14