How and When to Mulch Your Flower Garden

Putting mulch in the flower beds keeps the soil healthy and the flowers blooming all summer and saves you work by keeping the flower beds practically free of weeds. Mulch will also keep the soil from drying out quickly.

How to Help Your Garden Recover from a Hailstorm

You plant your garden in May, and by June it is looking perfect. The first blooms are on the peppers and tomatoes already. The nice afternoon showers are watering your garden and then it happens. An intense hailstorm hits and you get home and look at the hail piled in your garden like snow. Now, what do you do?

7 Great Tips for Growing a Container Garden

You love to grow herbs and vegetables and you love to eat freshly picked vegetables that you have grown yourself. But you don’t have a big backyard,  just a nice patio or balcony. You can still grow herbs and vegetables in containers.

How to Make Compost for Your Garden

Making your own compost is easy, fun and very useful in the vegetable and flower gardens. Composting also makes you feel like you’re doing something helpful for the dirt and the planet since much of what you put in the compost would end up in the trash anyway, your vegetables and flowers will be much better with your own compost around them.

How to Attract Butterflies and Hummingbirds to Your Garden

Have you ever noticed how butterflies and hummingbirds in your yard seem to fly around certain flowers. Butterflies and hummingbirds like certain flowers and certain areas of a yard. Growing flowers and plants that attract them is easy, just pick the right flowers and the right spot in your yard.