Raised garden beds are fast becoming the most popular way to grow vegetables at home. There are tremendous benefits to gardening in raised beds, including earlier harvests, more produce, less work, and easier access. Read on to learn more about…
Here are 150+ plant names for girls. These botanically-inspired monikers are listed in alphabetical order. Let’s get right to it!
Beds of blooming flowers brighten up front yards, bring an element of joy to the landscape, and also help beneficial pollinators thrive. Here are 28 lovely flower bed ideas to inspire your garden and design a beautiful blooming bed. 1.…
Green Manure is the premium in-place organic soil conditioner created by the practice of cover cropping. Cover cropping with leafy greens and grasses is a traditional natural gardening practice meant to enrich soil structure and available nutrients. It also crowds…
Living in an area where drought is a constant problem can make gardening difficult. Like all living things, flowers need water to grow and thrive. That being said, there are some types of perennial flowers that need much less water…
It’s that time again! Winter is on the way, and it’s time to consider which crops to grow and how well we can protect them. Don’t just hang up your trowel simply because it’s getting frosty. There are many winter…
Feeding hummingbirds in your yard or on your balcony is a wonderful way to welcome and support local wildlife. Fortunately there are a few things you can do to attract hummingbirds and keep them coming back for food on a…
Small pumpkins are easy to grow and fun to use in seasonal decorating. Their small size makes them perfect for fall centerpieces, quick recipes, and for smaller children to carve or paint. Small Pumpkins typically weigh no more than 5…
Foxglove care is all about ensuring each plant has enough water and sunlight to survive and thrive, while at the same time protecting it from getting too much of either input. Like so many things in the garden, foxgloves do…
Pachysandra is a shade-loving evergreen groundcover plant perfect for carpeting low-light areas with a rich, forest-green lushness. This plant is low-maintenance, drought-tolerant, and long-lived in the garden. Pachysandra most often refers to the plant Pachysandra terminalis, also known as Japanese…
For the health of your plants, you often need to prune them; but how do you do it? This detailed beginner’s guide shows you how to prune a plant. Pruning may seem intimidating for the novice gardener or houseplant enthusiast, but it…
A raspberry trellis is a support frame structure for berry canes generally constructed of wooden posts with horizontal wires, similar to a post-and-wire farmyard fence. Most raspberry trellis structures include 2 or 3 horizontal wire tiers spaced between 1′ and…