While there are many ways to deal with pests, most have disadvantages for the off-the-grid gardener. The bright yellow sticky traps used to capture aphids, cucumber beetles, thrips and other pests are unsightly and unpleasant to dispose of and are ...
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Watering Your Garden Wisely: Keep Your Garden Hydrated This Summer
We take care to keep ourselves moisturized throughout the long, hot days of summer, but how many of us remember to do the same for our plants? Most gardeners, either experienced or new, know you need to water your ...
Read More »11 Ways To Beat Nature And Extend Your Gardening Season
If you live in a climate that has less-than-ideal growing conditions for much of the year due to frost or cold weather, there are many things you can do to extend the growing season by weeks, months, or even indefinitely ...
Read More »5 Gardening Myths That Seemingly Everyone Believes
We have all grown in our gardening experiences by words of wisdom from those gardeners who have come and gone before us, and we’ve even followed gardeners who have TV shows, blogs and websites dedicated to their art. Of ...
Read More »How To Prevent Common Sweet Corn Diseases
Sweet corn takes up more garden space than most crops and it’s also fairly demanding in terms of moisture and nutrients. The incomparable taste of freshly-picked corn, though, is enough to encourage gardeners to continue to grow it. Native to ...
Read More »10 Fast Mid-Summer Vegetables You Still Can Plant From Seed
When you think about planting mid-summer vegetables in the garden – especially planting from seed – you might get a mental image of those early spring plantings just as your garden is getting started for the season. But just because ...
Read More »5 All-Natural Garden Fungus Treatments.
I’ve been gardening for more than 40 years. I’m particularly fond of vegetable gardening, although my wife is an avid gardener with flowers and decorative plants. Both of us, though, have confronted the challenge of various forms of fungus growing ...
Read More »Bugs Eating Your Vegetables? These Flowers Can Help!
Gone are the days when vegetable gardens were planted in neat, perfectly measured rows that would please the toughest drill sergeant. Flowers, which don’t take well to precision planting, were relegated to their own beds. These days, organic gardeners understand ...
Read More »Cabbage: Anti-Cancer Wonder Vegetable For Your Survival Garden
Well, pigs will probably be seen riding the thermals above my garden before ...
Read More »How To Grow 6-Inch Tomato Plants In Only 1 Week
I have a confession (one that I’ve made here before): I don’t start seeds indoors. If they can be sown directly, I do that. Most of my garden does get started from seeds. But I buy some seedlings, namely tomatoes ...
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