How to Plant a Wine Cap Mushroom Bed
When we think of gardening, leafy greens with vibrant flowers and delectable fruit are usually what come to mind. Most herbaceous plants have the typical care requirements of lots of …
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10 Tips To Outsmart Pesky Weeds
We all know that gardening is a labor of love. After all the hard work and the many hours spent planning, planting, watering, and caring for plant life, there is …
How to Make Liquid Eggshell Calcium Fertilizer
Imagine a vegetable garden where the tomatoes are plump and juicy with perfectly unblemished skin, pepper plants so strong that they easily bear the weight of their dangling bell fruits, …
4 Signs of Calcium Deficiency in Plants & How to Fix It
From roots and shoots to seeds and fruits, calcium is an essential nutrient that plays a crucial role in every single stage of plant development. Calcium is a multi-functional mineral …
Identifying Common Soil Nutrient Deficiencies & Fixing Them
The signs of sickly plants – wilted leaves, discolored foliage, malformed and stunted growth – are like a silent plea for help. If every leaf tells a story, this one …
10 Ground Covers to Grow Between Patio Pavers and Stone Paths
If there’s a universal truth we witness over and over again in the garden, it’s that nature abhors a vacuum. A gap – any gap – will quickly be filled. …
How to Make Biochar – the Soil Amendment That Lasts Forever
In the realm of sustainable gardening, you’ll quickly find what is old is new again. The techniques of the past, forgotten and rediscovered, are a fount of knowledge and inspiration …
The Best Self-Watering Planters & Easy DIY Options
Container gardening has a lot of great things going for it. As a beginner-friendly introduction to growing fruits and vegetables, getting a container garden set up couldn’t be easier. All …
How to Brew Aerated Compost Tea (& 5 Reasons Why You Should)
You could say we have an obsession with compost around here. And why wouldn’t we? It’s the perfect organic soil amendment – nutrient-rich and filled with microbial life – that …
125 Drought-Tolerant Plants: From Full Sun To Total Shade
The relationship between a plant and its environment is as old as time. Once a plant is in the ground, its ability to flourish has several limiting factors that go …
15 Thrillers, Fillers & Spillers For Stunning Container Flower Displays
Hanging baskets, window boxes, railing planters, and a healthy number of terracotta pots are just the thing to elevate a monotone porch or patio into a heavenly place filled with …
How to Start a New Vegetable Garden on Lawn – No Digging Required
Where I live in zone 5b, the final vestiges of winter are – at long last – behind us. Days past the last frost date, we had some very cool …
How to Build a Simple Lattice Trellis for Climbing Plants
I’m of the mind that there are few landscaping problems that more plants can’t solve. Need privacy, better drainage, weed displacement, or to cover up an ugly view? Well, there’s …
7 Blueberry Companion Plants & 14 Plants To Keep Far Away
Blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) is an ancient North American species, wilder than most other plants you can grow in your edible landscape. Having only been in cultivation for about 100 years …
How To Control Japanese Knotweed (& Delicious Ways To Eat It)
As any seasoned weed-puller knows, keeping on top of weedy growth in the lawn and garden is a never-ending grind. Some weeds are easy, yank them up once and they’re …
75 Drought-Tolerant Veggies + Drought-Proofing Your Garden
The climes, they are a-changin’. Depending on where you live, winters might be trending milder or chillier. Frost dates, once fairly accurate, are shifting. The arrival of fool’s spring wakes …
10 Creative Things You Can Do With a Tree Stump
There’s something uniquely special about trees. Trees give us cool shade in summertime and spectacular color in fall. They help take the dullness out of the winter landscape and are …
Dealing With Invasive Jumping Worms – A Gardener’s Worst Nightmare
Earthworms are among the most beloved residents in the home garden. Tireless in their quest to tunnel, feed, and poop, worms are amazing for aerating the soil, breaking down organic …
20 Depression-Era Skills That Are Still Useful Today
The period between 1929 and 1939 was one of widespread human suffering. At no other time in modern history had there been such a drastic drop in standards of living …
5 Ways to Speed Up Your Leaf Mold Pile
The transition from crisp and colorful autumn leaves to crumbly and dark leaf mold is – normally – a very slow process. Do nothing more than rake your leaves into …
7 Ways to Rejuvenate & Replenish Raised Beds
A raised garden bed, freshly filled up with healthy soil for the first time, is a wonderful thing. The soil mix is fluffy and porous and an absolute delight to …
6 Reasons Every Gardener Needs a Hori Hori Knife
A hori hori is really the ideal tool for us easily distracted gardeners. Maybe you know the drill. You set out into the garden with a specific task in mind …
How to Harvest Leaf Mold & 4 Ways to Use It
Every spring in temperate climates, shade trees wake up from a long winter’s nap. Their expansive root systems run deep into the earth, pulling up nitrogen and other important nutrients …
How to Easily Make a Compost Sifter – No DIY Skills Required
Caring for a compost pile is much like tending a garden. We feed it, we water it, we give it good airflow. And in return, we get to see the …