The Lighter Side of Gardening

There might be right ways and wrong ways to plant a garden, and then there is the lighter side of planting a garden. Gardening should be fun and enjoyable, and not looked at as hard work that needs to be done perfectly or immediately.

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 Double the Size of Your Garden with Vertical Gardening

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Do you look at your garden and wish and wish you more room for a larger garden. Do you wish you had more room for a bigger garden? You can double the size of your garden and grow more vegetables with what is called vertical gardening. With a vertical garden using a trellis, you can actually double the size of your garden without digging up more of your yard.

Fall Garden Cleanup Tips

As the summer garden season comes to an end, there are all kinds of things you can do to clean your garden and get the garden ready for next year. What you do in your garden this fall can help the garden next year be even more productive and healthy.

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 Get Rid of Bindweed in the Garden and Lawn

This is one weed that can kill your flowers and vegetables. You see it grow throughout your evergreen shrubs, in the lawn, and in your gardens. Bindweed is very hard to get rid of, but with perseverance, you can get rid of it.

Natural Ways to Get Rid of Garden Pests and Weeds

There are good pests and there are bad pests in your garden. Some years it just seems like it’s a never-ending battle, you get rid of one bug and then over there something is eating all your green beans. And then you have the weeds that are actually choking the life out of your beautiful garden. There are a number of natural organic ways to control these pests.

5 Tips for Growing the Best Tomatoes

Tomatoes are not hard to grow, though there are some things you need to do and watch out for. Usually, the hardest thing for me about growing tomatoes is choosing which varieties I want each year since there are so many. I usually stick to the ones I know I will use throughout the summer and also cook and freeze for use in the winter. Here are some tips for growing tomatoes.

How to Have a Bountiful Garden in a Small Space

Gardening is enjoyable, healthy and can certainly save you money by growing your own food. Reading garden magazines in the early spring can be frustrating with all the beautiful pictures of those large gardens as if we all have that much space. Many of us do not have a lot of room for a large garden. Here are ideas for getting the most garden from a small space.

How to Start a Vegetable Garden from Seeds

Starting a garden from seeds is a good way to start your garden that will save you money. Usually, plants at a garden shop can be expensive and sometimes the plants you get from a garden shop might not be very healthy or they could come with bugs. Starting from seeds, you can be sure to have healthy plants to place in the garden.

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.