For a creative twist on raised bed or container garden, give old vintage bathtubs a try! Vintage tubs add instant charm and character to outdoor garden areas. With many different shapes and sizes to choose from at local thrift stores, flea markets, and antique boutiques, vintage … [Read more...]
Plant a Salsa Garden: The Five Ingredients to Grow for Fresh Garden Salsa
Salsa lovers can enjoy a particularly nutritious and delicious treat by growing all the ingredients for salsa right in their home gardens. Planting a Salsa Garden: What and When to Plant 1. Tomatoes Tomatoes are frost-sensitive plants. Start seedlings 6-8 weeks before the … [Read more...]
How to Grow Kale: Including Three Favorite Ways to Prepare Kale
Kale is a particularly easy and rewarding crop for the home gardener. It's a nutritional powerhouse, rich in vitamins A, C and B6, as well as, minerals and dietary fiber. It's also a long-lived low-maintenance crop, cold hardy and not very prone to disease. Last but not least … [Read more...]
Growing Rainbow Carrots: Health Benefits and Varieties by Color (Red, Purple, Yellow, White)
Most people hear "carrot" and immediately picture a familiar orange vegetable. But carrots also come in red, yellow, purple and white. In fact, some researchers say the first domesticated carrots--developed in the region of what is now Afghanistan--were yellow and purple. Red … [Read more...]
Goats for Weed Control: Everything You Need to Know, Including How to Rent Goats
Landowners with properties overrun with invasive or otherwise problematic species like kudzu, multiflora rose and poison ivy don't have to resort to herbicides, machine rental or exhausting manual removal. Goats will eat and thrive on many of these weeds. This can be a win/win … [Read more...]
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