Before last year, I had a little experience with coco coir, but it wasn’t a product I was using heavily in my garden. Last summer, though, I completely removed all the weeds and overgrowth in the beds ...
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Hydroponics 101: A Getting Started Guide to Gardening without Soil
The term hydroponic gardening sounds familiar, but most people misunderstood it as growing plants on water. While that's not wrong, it's not the complete picture. In reality, this gardening technique ...
How to Identify, Control, and Deal With Root-Knot Nematodes
If you pull up a dying plant and find bulb-like knots on the roots, you might have an infestation of root-knot nematodes. You can't see these microscopic pests without a microscope, making early ...
14 Best Short-Season Crops for Cold Climates
Growing food in a cooler climate can be really frustrating because of the ridiculously short growing period. As a result, we need to take full advantage of the time and resources available to ...
The Compost Tea Controversy and Tips to Use ACT & PCT Correctly
Organic gardeners are always looking for inexpensive and effective ways to keep plants safe from fungal pathogens and nutrient deficiencies. Inevitably, if you are looking for that information in the ...
Epicurean Homesteading: How to Be Self-Sufficient While Making Your Life More Pleasurable
“Homesteading is not about hardship. It’s about creating a pleasurable life.” It often shocks people when I say this. It’s almost as if they want to believe homesteading has to be difficult. Maybe ...
8 Best Coco Coir – An Essential Growing Medium
Whether you are an urban gardener, organic gardener, or a hydroponic grower, coco coir is an essential growing medium for your seeds or seedlings. Once you incorporate coco coir into your gardening ...
15 Tips to Make Gardening for Seniors Easier and More Accessible
A lot of people think you have to be in great health with excellent mobility to grow a garden. There’s so much lifting of things like bags of compost. You have to push around a wheelbarrow. Then ...
5 Clever DIY Tower Garden Ideas to Make the Most of Your Space
I've been a fan of tower gardening for a long time. Each year, I create a new tower from old scraps or spare equipment, different from the previous year. Of course, you can buy a professional ...