Gardening articles everywhere recommend that you test your soil before doing anything else. And, if your garden is suffering, you’re just starting out as a gardener, or you’re a serial ...
Spend Less Time Weeding and More Time Gardening with These Tips
Weeds – those opportunistic, unwelcome plants that can effortlessly outcompete your edibles and ornamentals. If only there were an easy way to keep them at bay! Well, unfortunately, there ...
Stale Seedbed Cultivation: Let Weeds Grow Now and Weed Less Later
Gardeners everywhere battle weeds throughout the growing season. But I’m here to offer some unconventional advice. I’m going to encourage you to grow them, or at least allow them to ...
Make These Easy DIY Raised Beds: The Perfect Solution for Veggie Gardening
For the past few years, cucumbers, squash, and zucchini have wilted in my garden – no matter what. My best guess is that my soil is infected with a virus, be it phytophthera or some other ...
Grow Heavenly Hyacinths for Rich Spring Color and Sweet Perfume
Hyacinthus Hyacinths are a perennial, bulbous spring flower from the genus Hyacinthus in the Asparagaceae or asparagus family. Sweetly fragrant with a delicate, fresh scent, each hyacinth bulb ...
Plant Green Beans and You’ll Feel like a Gardening Pro
If you’re hoping to grow more of your own food this year, green beans are a great place to start. Although easy enough to pick up at the grocery store, nothing beats the taste and nutrition of ...
Extend the Season and Keep Pests Out with Floating Row Covers
Every gardener out there can benefit from having floating row covers on hand. They’re lightweight, easy to store, and inexpensive. And their uses go well beyond frost protection. Don’t be ...
A-Foraging We Will Go: Berry Edition
I adore my time spent in the garden, but I’m at my happiest rambling through forest and field. Hemlock groves carpeted in moss are home, far as I’m concerned, and the same goes for the aspen trees ...
Laugh Your Way Through Chicken Husbandry with “The Chicken Chick’s Guide to Backyard Chickens”
Full disclosure: I don’t have chickens. My homeowner’s association prohibits them. Nor, before reading this book, did I particularly want a flock. HOA rules aside, a couple of my neighbors raise ...
5 Tips You Need to Navigate Seed Catalogs
In the quiet, post-holiday weeks of winter, nothing livens up a gardener with cabin fever like a fresh-off-the-presses, colorful and enticing seed catalog. This time-honored resource has its ...
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