Sowing and Recycling Should Go Hand in Hand
When starting seeds, you can use a whole range of recycled products. Photo: countrylivinginacariboovalley.com In the Northern Hemisphere, March isContinue Reading
Category: Gardening
Top 10 Reasons to Garden
By Janis Kiefet, for the National Gardening Bureau Mobile phones, tablets and apps have become the tools of our modern lives.Continue Reading
Time to Take Cuttings of Your Cuttings
With spring just around the corner, it’s time to take cuttings of overwintering annuals. Photo: gardenofeaden.blogspot.com If you’re like me,Continue Reading
When Two Different Pears Cross, Does It Change their Taste?
If a Ussurian pear (left) is pollinated by a ‘Flemish Beauty’ European pear (right), will it take on its taste?Continue Reading
Sowing Calendar for Annual Flowers
Ill.: zynga2-a.akamaihd.net, clipartandscrap.com & assets.podomatic.net The following list presents about 150 annuals with the recommended sowing date for each one.Continue Reading
Sowing Calendar for Vegetables and Herbs
Photo: nutroo.men & clipartmax.com Wondering when you should start your seeds of vegetables and herbs indoors? Here’s a handy list,Continue Reading
When Plants Mutate
Gerbera flower showing a mutation to a secondary flower color. Photo: slowlyretarding, reddit.com The word “mutation” often evokes images ofContinue Reading
How Does Biochar Work to Improve, or Even Decontaminate, Soil?
Fruitwood pyrolized into biochar. Photo: Jeff Novak, USDA-ARS. An article by Jim Ippolito, Colorado State University Biochar – as theContinue Reading
Cage Your Climbing Roses
Climbing roses are much less work if you cage them. This is Rosa ‘Graham Thomas’. Photo: agardenforthehouse.com Traditionally, climbing rosesContinue Reading
Year of the Garden Bean
Every year, the National Garden Bureau, a non-profit organization promoting the pleasures of home gardening, selects one annual, one perennial, oneContinue Reading