More and more, backyard homesteaders are raising quail alongside their chickens and ducks. Their small size and delicious eggs make them appealing for homesteaders, no matter where they live. If ...
Bacterial Leaf Spot: How to Identify and Control This Deadly Plant Disease
Are there strange spots developing on the leaves of your plants? You might have bacterial leaf spot. No gardener likes dealing with diseases, and bacterial leaf spot is a particularly nasty problem ...
Block Planting: A Simple Gardening Technique to Grow More Veggies
Do you want to grow more vegetables in your garden this year but lack the space to expand? Try block planting as a way to increase your garden yield. Instead of planting in rows, this gardening ...
Growing Herb Fennel: The Complete Guide to Plant, Care, and Harvest
The herb fennel has a long growing history and a multitude of uses including culinary and medicinal ones. Nowadays, most people use fennel in the kitchen for its unique anise or licorice-like ...
Growing Culantro: Planting, Care, and Harvesting This Tasty Herb
Most people have never heard of culantro, but if you're looking for a tasty new option to start growing in your herb garden, it may be just the thing. Culantro is known for its strong, aromatic ...
10 Reasons Your Pea Plants Are Dying and How To Prevent It
Peas are one of the easiest vegetable plants to grow in your garden, but sometimes, problems arise. That leaves you wondering - why are my peas dying?! Even though most gardeners find that peas are ...
How to Fix Alkaline Soil in the Garden
All soil has a pH range between acidic and alkaline, with neutral being in the middle. Most people worry about acidic soil, but gardeners need to understand alkaline soil as well. Having alkaline ...
Gardening on Sandy Soil: 4 Ways to Improve Sandy Soil and What to Plant
Not everyone is blessed with the perfect soil for gardening; most have to create it. If the earth in your garden is too sandy, don't stress. You can learn how to improve sandy soil and grow all of the ...
Anthracnose: How to Prevent and Treat This Fungal Disease
Anthracnose, often called twig or shoot blight, affects a variety of plants, trees, and shrubs. It's hard to combat once it infects your plants, so the key is to prevent anthracnose from appearing in ...