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How To Calculate Cubic Feet For Your Garden Like A Pro
Before you startSoil calculation is a basic step to start a new garden from scratch, especially when you are looking to place a couple of raised garden beds in your garden. For a lot of new gardeners, soil calculation can be a big challenge that disheartens even the most enthusiastic gardener.Calculating the soil you need […]
9 Unique Super Food Companion Plants for Vegetables
If you’re used to growing only annual vegetables, or decorative perennials, you’re missing out on a whole world of easy to grow foods that can pack a huge amount of nutrition into your garden, while complimenting and even helping your vegetables grow. If you already have the perennial itch, like me, below are some favorite […]
Amazing Mints: The Versatile Plant Species That Does Everything from Entertaining your Cat to Cleaning Your Teeth
Mint plants, Lamiaceae, come in a wide variety. Some are good for making tea or jelly, freshening breath or even cleaning your house. Others act as insect repellents or are believed to have medicinal properties. The best news about mint plants is that many of them are the brown-thumb gardener’s saving grace. Once started, mint […]
Best Spring Garden Vegetables to Chase Away the Winter Food Doldrums
Spring vegetables can perk up your diet and your mood. Not only are they a bit of fresh green that can help relieve the dull grays and browns of winter, they pack a nutritional punch that enlivens a winter diet that has relied on canned, preserved or frozen foods, supplemented by fruits and vegetables either […]
Getting Ready for Spring Planting: Digging into A New Gardening Season
February Second is often referred to as “Groundhog Day” or the day that if a certain furry rodent sees his shadow, we will have six more weeks of winter. Like many legends, whether February 2nd is sunny or cloudy, winter in temperate regions of the United States and similar equatorial zones will last until around […]
A Super Guide for Beginning Gardeners: How to love getting your hands dirty, your feet wet and grow the best vegetables ever
Man Using a Hand Harrow. Photo credit: Internet Archive Book Images via Foter.com / No known copyright restrictions Photo credit: EraPhernalia Vintage . . . [”playin’ hook-y”] ;o via Foter.com / CC BY-SA Gardening isn’t rocket science. Thank goodness it isn’t, or many generations of humans would have gone hungry. However, through many centuries of […]
Cabbage: the Nutritious, Beautiful Two-Crop Vegetable
Cabbage, a member of the brassica family, is a cool-weather crop that is nutritious and beautiful. Some gardeners say that it is too much trouble to grow in their gardens, especially since is often inexpensive at the grocery store. But once you have eaten home grown cabbage you will never want to go back to […]
How to Start a Fall Vegetable Garden the Easy Way
Have you heard your gardening friends raving about their fall gardens? Most people think of springtime as the ideal time to grow vegetables, but more and more people are discovering the magic of a fall vegetable garden. You should too! Figure 1 – Photo credit: Chris Sorge via Foter.com / CC BY-SA In many areas, […]
The Best Time to Water Plants
Have you ever wondered when is the best time to water plants? If you ask around, chances are one of your organic gardening friends will tell you, “The best time to water plants is whenever they’re dry.” There is some truth to this common knowledge (you should, of course, water your plants when they’re dry). […]
How to Grow Your Own Tea Plant
Are you one of the millions of people who regularly shell out $10 dollars or more for a small box of tea bags? If so, you have probably wondered whether or not you can learn how to grow your own tea plant at home. Figure 1 – Photo credit: Allie’s.Dad via Foter.com / CC BY-NC-ND […]
