If you want to grow a vegetable garden this spring, then you also probably want to know how to get the most bang for your buck in your plot. Gardening is hard work, so understanding the most efficient and effective ways to get your plants from seed to food is important. Starting … [Read more...]
Companion Planting: 7 Vegetable Pairs that Grow Perfectly Together
Bringing a wide variety of plants into your vegetable garden can have many benefits. Planting certain vegetables next to each other can encourage both plants to thrive. This unique process is known as companion planting. Companion plants have many potential benefits for their … [Read more...]
Keep Tomato Hornworms Away with a Sacrificial Dill Plant
One of the prime tenets of effective organic gardening is companion planting. When carefully planned, this process can protect certain species from specific pests. One way to do this is to offer a trap crop that the pest loves more than your main crop, something you can … [Read more...]
How To Make Gardening Easier
Gardening is fun, healthy, and a smart way to enhance the quality of the food your family eats and the beauty of your indoor and outdoor spaces. Sometimes, though, gardening can be a lot of work. Unless, of course, you garden smart and do things the thoughtful, easy way. Here … [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 planting. … [Read more...]