CARDBOARD - Garden Guide
I Was Asked if I Had Any Stepping Stone Molds
I had to say no. Nothing like losing a sale!
I don't sell them because of postal costs. Molds don't weigh much but are big when you get to step stone size. The Post Office and everyone else use a system called...
I Was Asked if I Had Any Stepping Stone Molds
I had to say no. Nothing like losing a sale!
I don't sell them because of postal costs. Molds don't weigh much but are big when you get to step stone size. The Post Office and everyone else use a system called...
Growing Your Own Herbs
If youre not the type of person that wants to spend their time managing an elaborate fruit or vegetable garden, you might consider planting and maintaining an herb garden. While the product might not seem as significant,...
Palm Trees Suitable For Containers Used Outside And Inside Your Home Or Office
Dioon (Gum) Palm Tree - Dioon spinulosumGiant Dioon is technically a cycad of pre-historical origin, and the Dioon palm tree can grow up to 1 ½ ft. in diameter with a Dioon trunk growing twelve feet tall. The bright waxy-green...
How To Grow Your Own Organic Worms Your Silent Workforce
The main work worms do in your garden is tilling and aerating the soil. They burrow very deep, leaving channels through the soil that break up clods and allow air to enter and water to penetrate and drain away.In the process of...
The Flower Drying Game - Part 3: An Affordable Home Flower-Press
We've finally reached the end of this 3-part series on drying flowers. If you've gotten this far, you probably already know that small, home-style, do-it-yourself flower presses can be purchased in places like craft stores,...
Container Gardens - Big Growth in Small Spaces
Container gardens are ideal for city apartments, balconies, decks, patios, and interior rooms. On its Web site Cornell Plantations, part of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, says "container gardening is gaining in...
The Fundamentals of Efficient Vegetable Garden Landscaping
Gardens are not only planted to beautify a place. They are also made to provide people with food. Such is the purpose of a vegetable garden.Many people plant vegetable gardens because vegetables are easy to grow. In fact, 6 out...
Giving Seeds What They Need In Storage
On a recent visit to the home of dear friends--a family blend of professionals, gardeners, homemaker, outdoorsman, and delightful youngsters--we brought along a package of choice vegetable seeds that I knew would be accepted...
How To Ripen Your Green Tomatoes
Ideally, the best way to ripen tomatoes is always naturally on the vine. This is not always possible if they are under threat from frost as frequently happens.There are many ways to encourage ripening. Here are my recommended...
Simple Organic Methods To Combat Pests In Your Veggie Garden
Organic gardeners always prefer to use methods that have the least negative effect on the environment. By growing strong healthy plants we eliminate the threat of having large scale pest invasions. But when some pest...
Raised Bed Gardening A Gardening Idea For This Weekend
Raised Bed Gardening What do you mean by raised beds? A raised bed is a framed planting area which the soil exists above the surrounding ground level. The bed size is anything that enables you to work on without steppi
Container Gardening Is For Everyone
Container gardening is for everyone. Whether all your gardening is done on a deck, in window boxes, even if you have an eighty by fifty foot garden, plants in containers will always have their place - can always be used to...
Homemade Bird Feeders
Building a bird feeder can be a great project for moms, dads and kids. Its fairly simple to build a bird feeder that can be hung in the back yard and bring years of enjoyment for the whole family. You can either start from...
Coaxing Fresh Vegetables From The Garden All Winter Long
Autumn typically signals the end of home grown vegetables from the garden, but with a little ingenuity you can harvest garden fresh produce well into the winter months. My Central Pennsylvania garden continues to supply fresh...
Practical Compost Making
Whether you are an ordinary gardener, or an organic gardener which doesn't use of any sort of chemical additive for fertilization or pest control, a quality compost becomes one of the most important factors in determining the...
Composting Do's And Don'ts
So long as they have a high surface to volume ratio, most plant materials from your garden will work beautifully in your compost pile. You want to use common sense when adding larger items like sequoia branches or giant rubber...
The Value of Mulch
Mulch is anything that covers the soil for the purpose of preventing weeds, conserving moisture, or moderating the soil temperature. Many materials make good mulch. The ones you choose really depend on what's locally...
Why Mulching Needs To Be Part Of Your Organic Gardening System
The word mulch comes from the old English word melsc meaning rotten hay. In todays language it has come to mean any material that covers the soil to preserve moisture content, forestall soil erosion and inhibit...
Growing Your Own Herbs
If youre not the type of person that wants to spend their time managing
an elaborate fruit or vegetable garden, you might consider planting and
maintaining an herb garden. While the product might not seem as
significant,...