Controlling Weeds in Your Garden

A few quick tips on taking control of those pesky weeds that sprout in your garden. And you don’t have to spend all day just pulling them out!

Planning A New Vegetable Garden

Starting a vegetable garden is not something you want to start planning in the spring. Start your planning during the winter. Start thinking about what you want to grow in your garden, the location, size, etc. Plan now so you will be ready to implement your plan when planting season arrives.

Tips For Growing Herbs Both Outdoors And In An Indoor Herb Garden

Growing herbs in your garden can be a great way to get fresh herbs for cooking or medicinal purposes. In many cases you can grow them right in with your other flowers, or keep them in containers so that you can bring them inside in the winter months for a bountiful indoor herb garden. Herbs can be perennials or biennials so you need to plant them with this in mind.

Garden Design Ideas For Awkward Shaped Gardens

The temptation with an awkwardly shaped garden is either to do as little as possible to it — maybe a lawn surrounded with flowerbeds — or to add too many hidden corners and details, which might work well in an enormous plot, but won’t make the best of an average-sized garden. The ideal is to come up with a layout that’s simple but uses design tricks to correct the shape of the garden. Better still, a clever layout can make the awkward shape an advantage, using odd corners for hidden storage or raised levels to define areas of the garden. …

Peanuts Just Beneath The Surface

Imagine my surprise when I found peanuts growing in the pot where I usually plant annuals. Peanuts I had not planted. I took this as a reminder that I need to always have faith. Expect the unexpected. Miracles do happen.

The Garden Gymnasium

Why spend a fortune for gymnasium subscriptions when you can have a good workout in your own garden. Everyday gardening where you can burn off between 200 and 360 Calories in a half hour workout.

Garden Landscape – Adjusting The pH Level In Your Soil Is The Key To Success

To have a beautiful garden landscape, the pH levels in your garden soil are key to the success or failure of your garden project. You don’t want to spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars on garden landscape materials, only to fail because the shrubs you planted can’t get the proper nutrients.

Venomous Snakes In The Garden – How To Avoid The Danger

A fear of poisonous snakes deters some people from creating a garden, while others choose to ignore the possible danger posed by snakes. Neither approach is justified and here’s how to avoid the pitfalls of both.

Tips for Growing Meyer Improved Lemon Trees

Lemon trees are easy to grow if you know what you’re doing. Here are a few tips for growing one of the best indoor lemon trees, the Limon ‘Meyer Improved,’ from Wayside Gardens’ garden writer Anne K. Moore.

Wall Mount Garden Fountains – One of Life’s Pleasures

Water gardens and fountains are quickly becoming the in thing for your garden. It seems even when there is hardly room for a good sized chair, people can find room for a wall mounted garden fountain. One of the most popular places to put one of these great little fountains is a small courtyard in the inner city.

Organic Gardens – How to Start an Organic Garden Fast

One of the latest crazes that has caught on all over the world, especially in light of global warming and its all of the food contaminations that people have experienced is the hobby of organic gardening. Here are a few tips on how you can prepare the way for a successful and fast-growing organic garden.

Soil – The Importance of Soil For Your Organic Garden

Whether or not you are working with clay soils, soil with many rocks, or soil that you have mixed your self that has a good mixture of compost, soil is quite possibly one of the most important ingredients to a successful organic garden. Here are a few tips on how you can improve your soil so that your organic plants can grow quickly and easily.

Worm Bins – The Secret to Free Organic Compost

One of the best ways to maintain sizable crops that are full of robust and healthy food is to make sure that you add nutrient filled compost on a regular basis. Here are a few tips on how to make sure that you can provide the best organic compost for your garden using worms and worm bins.

Organic Compost – 5 Tips to Free Organic Compost

Whether or not you are growing organic food as a hobby, or you have a full fledged organic gardening business, one of the most important ingredients that you can make for yourself is organic compost. Here are 5 tips on how you can generate rich organic compost on your own without it costing you a cent.

Indoor Organic Gardens – Know These Tips Or Fail

For those of us that live in the country that have land to actually grow an organic garden on, there is no problem when it comes to having enough light, achieving the necessary temperature, and the proper amount of humidity. If you want to grow your organic food indoors, you need to know a few tips or you will fail. Here are a few tips on how to achieve a successful indoor organic garden.