Although it's one of the less talked about gardening techniques, veganic gardening is an effective and healthy way to provide for you and your family. Veganic gardeners avoid things like chemical ...
How to Use Greywater in the Garden
You know that water that runs down the drain in the kitchen and bathroom every day? It's called greywater, and you can use it to water your garden. If you’re unfamiliar with the concept of ...
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 ...
Fall Pre-Seeding: How To Use This Clever Gardening Technique
I discovered pre-seeding a few years ago when I was super-busy with multiple projects, and I was looking for ways to enhance my efficiency in the vegetable garden. Pre-seeding gave me a head start ...
Why You Need to Plant a Wildflower Garden
All those luscious fruit and vegetable plants we love to grow in our gardens need to be pollinated to produce what we call food. This, of course, requires insects such as bees, butterflies, wasps, ...
The ABC of Sowing Seeds for Successful Seed Growth
It turns out there’s a lot to know about seeds. They don’t just come in all different shapes and sizes, but they also have different requirements when it comes to starting them. In short, ...
10 Natural Materials You Can Transform into Fiber
Take a look at the clothes you're wearing right now. Without looking at the label, can you tell what fiber(s) they're made from? Many are woven from synthetics, but some of the best textiles out there ...
7 Must-Have Gardening Apps to Improve Your Garden
There are apps for pretty much everything, and gardening is no different. Back in the day, we used books, almanacs, and journals. Today, it makes sense to utilize technology for the sheer amount of ...
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 ...