If you suffer from allergies, but love gardening, you can still indulge in your passion. There are many plants you can surround yourself with that won't set your allergies into overdrive. At ...
Vermicompost Worm Deaths: Common Causes & What to Do
Vermicomposting, or composting with worms, is one of the best ways to boost the health of your garden without having to maintain an outdoor compost bin. Worms might be a little creepy crawly ...
How to Deal With a Thrips Infestation in Your Garden
Did you find small, slender, winged insects on your plants? Have you noticed weird, distorted areas on the leaves and buds? Spot any black specks? If so, you might have thrips. They might be tiny, ...
How and Why to Add Magnesium to Garden Soil
Magnesium is an essential nutrient needed for optimal plant growth, but like all other nutrients, it's depleted over time. Gardeners need to know how to add magnesium to the soil to ensure their crops ...
Are Spiders in the Garden Good or Bad?
Finding a massive, creepy spider in your garden can be frightening at first, and you might have to resist the urge to squish it with your shoe. You probably know that pests are problematic, but are ...
25 Medieval Vegetables and Herbs to Try Growing
When most people think of food in the medieval era, they likely either think of grand royal banquets or peasant gruel. In fact, that's far from the truth. They had an incredibly varied diet that you ...
Growing Honeyberry (Haskap): Varieties, Planting, Care, and Harvest Guide
If you haven't met or tried growing the spectacular honeyberry before, prepare to be amazed. These luscious fruits are shaped like elongated Concord grapes, are the same color as blueberries, and ...
How to Keep Cabbage White Butterflies Away from Your Brassicas
Plants in the cabbage/brassica family are spectacularly tasty. The problem is that cabbage white butterflies find them delicious too, and they can obliterate an entire crop if you don't take ...
Which Kinds of Manure Are Best for Your Garden?
It is a pretty well-known fact that if you want to grow a healthy organic garden, you’ve got to get away from using synthetic fertilizers on your plants. This can be tough, particularly when ...