Growing potatoes in your vegetable garden Potatoes are a year-round staple for many families around the world. Potatoes come in over a hundred varietals in all kinds of sizes, shapes, colors and flavors. There is a potato to suit almost everyone's taste. The edible part of a … [Read more...]
Weeds 101: Effective Ways to Prevent Weeds
Those pesky weeds. As sure as the days will get longer and the weather will get warmer, the presence of weeds will return, posing a challenge for homeowners to maintain the perfect lawn. So how do you eliminate weeds without the backbreaking effort of pulling them or with … [Read more...]
How to Use Companion Planting In Organic Gardens
Gardeners have know for hundreds of years that certain plants grow better when planted along side other specific plants. Back then there wasn't a name for this practice; they just knew it worked. Today, we call putting plants together that help each other out companion … [Read more...]
How to Grow a Depression Garden
What Are Depression Gardens? When you hear people talking about depression gardening, they’re usually referring to the type of backyard vegetable garden that many families had during the Great Depression of the 1930s. A sinking economy meant, then as now, that people were … [Read more...]
How to Use Ground Cover as Living Mulch
Why Ground Cover? Gardeners usually turn to ground cover plants like moneywort, ivies, clovers, vinca minor, hostas and thymes when they have tough areas of the yard to landscape. Ground covers are chosen for their hardiness, tendency to spread themselves, and tolerance for a … [Read more...]
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