Survival Gardening

Image source: Pixabay.com   If you live in a city or geographical region where water is scarce or expensive, you probably already do your best to...

Image source: Pixabay.com   The cultivation of potatoes originated in South America, where the Incas of Peru grew them for food some 10,000 years ago. The...

Image source: Pixabay.com When you think of attracting a super-pollinating machine to your backyard garden, you probably don’t instantly think of the mason bee. Most people...

Image source: Flickr   While long rows of evenly spaced plants may appeal to a classic sense of what gardening is “supposed to look like,” it...

Image source: Pixabay.com   Drought is a serious concern for gardeners. As water supplies dwindle across much of the country, we are left wondering how long...

Image source: Pixabay.com Summer is a time when backyard gardeners can enjoy the fruits of their labor, but it’s also a time when many of us...

Swiss chard. Image source: Pixabay.com   Growing vegetables in containers is touted as something you do if you’re an urbanite without space for a “real” garden....

Image source: Pixabay.com   If spring and early summer somehow slipped past without you getting all the vegetables planted that you wanted to, you are not...

Image source: Pixabay.com The traditional garden is a thing of beauty indeed -- a well-tended patch of cultivated ground with neat, straight rows of lush, green...

Many gardeners enjoy trying to grow plants in a bottle, but it’s likely that no one has had the success that David Latimer of the United...