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...]
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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 Use Recycled Coffee Grounds in Your Garden
Composting with Coffee Grounds Old coffee grounds are one of the best ways to add nitrogen to your compost pile, which is often a lacking element in urban or suburban composting. They can go right into the compost pail, and just give the pile a bit of a stir when you add the pail … [Read more...]
Window Garden
Growing Window Gardens If you’re anything like me, you fall into a slight depression soon after the outside garden succumbs to the cold and by Thanksgiving you’re ready for spring. If you’re anything like me, growing foodstuffs and ornamentals in your precious little window … [Read more...]
Using a Rain Barrel for Rainwater Harvesting
A rain barrel is a device that collects and stores rainwater that would normally flow off of your roof for later use watering your flower or vegetable garden or your lawn. The amount of water you can collect in these barrels from just one relatively small precipitation event is … [Read more...]