The Essential Garden Plan
You have a home, it has a yard, now what? Be in charge of your home landscape space through the creation of your own essential garden plan. It can be the beginning of an exciting venture into your home garden design, or the time and headache saving information you...
All About Healthy Garden Soil
To grow well, plants need healthy soils that deliver the nutrients and conditions they require. This guide will simplify understanding how to improve your garden's dirt. What Is Healthy Soil? Table of Contents Texture Structure pH Amendments Adjustments Articles for...
Planting Flower Bulbs in the Fall
This is probably my most enjoyed undertaking of the autumn planting season. I just love to have tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, and all the supporting cast of players filling the garden the following spring. With the beautiful colors and scents that flowering bulbs give...
How to Grow Shrubs or Vines from Hardwood Cuttings
A late season propagation method, hardwood cuttings can produce new plants in the most frugal way. Hardwood Cutting How-To Clean the pruning shears to keep from...
Herb Growing Guide
How To Add Herbs To Your Garden Herb Growing Guide And Inspirational Projects Add herbs to your garden during the coming season, if you haven't already. From containers on the balcony to a home industry of harvesting herbs, the projects can run the gamut. Here are a...
Planting for Bees
Honeybees are in trouble. Most people are aware of that, but did you know you can do your part to help the honeybee population? If you have a yard space, it is possible to plant flowers that will provide nectar rich nutrition, which is one part of helping bee...
Spring Season
Spring sometimes seems like one big project in the gardening world. All the beginning growth added to the time for planting seeds and dividing old plants and too many tasks to name inside one sentence means we are busy. This project page is a quick and easy way to...
Composting, a New Pile of Info
I have been composting since "way back when", even when I knew next to nothing about it. I suppose the example of my grandparents sending me out to with spent coffee grounds and kitchen vegetable peelings to dig directly into the rich veggie garden soil is the genesis...
Gallery Of Featured Posts
A Gallery of Best Posts Browse through this gallery selection of some of the best, most interesting posts. A way to sample everything from beginner’s info to advanced master gardening techniques, to help you discover some of the exciting gardening topics available...
Making A Fire Pit For Friendly Gatherings
I always liked camping and sitting around a campfire, but never really considered a fire pit for the yard. After all, we had our "burn pile" and hauled our lawn chairs out there when we wanted to roast marshmallows, etc. It wasn't until we went to my son's place and...
Spring
It's a huge project to make the best of Springtime
Fall
A vastly under-rated prime gardening time.
All Seasons
Building the soil via composting can be done throughout the seasons; and should be.