Apples, pears, and oranges are fantastic, but sometimes you want something a little less common. If so, you might want to consider growing longans. These tropical fruits have a sweet, floral flavor ...
Growing Water Chestnut: How to Plant and Care for Water Chestnut
Water chestnuts are native to Asia, but anyone with the right climate can succeed at growing these sweet, crunchy treats. Even though the name water chestnut would suggest it’s a nut, this unique ...
How to Start an Apple Orchard for Making Cider
There's always a time during the apple harvest season when I start to get excited about making cider. It's usually when the trees are laden and we've made all the puree, pie, muffins, and leather our ...
Growing Black Elderberries: A Complete Guide to Plant, Grow, and Care For Elderflowers
Black elderberries are hands-down my favorite plant in the orchard. Not only do they have excellent health benefits and flavor, but growing black elderberries is easy. So easy, in fact, that you might ...
9 Common Problems When Growing Soybeans and What to Do About Them
Soybeans are famously easy to grow and provide easy fodder or homemade edamame without much effort. But, like all crops that have been cultivated for centuries, soy has a handful of species-specific ...
How to Use Soil Blocks to Start Your Seeds Better
I’m sick of seed starting. Every year, my enthusiasm is stolen by problems that arise during the process. This year, a fungal disease knocked out a whole shelf of plants. It wasn’t the first season I ...
10 Ways to Get Rid of Imported Cabbageworms from Your Plants
Damage to food crops, flowers, and many other plants frustrates gardeners no matter where they live, but it's all a part of gardening. One of the most common garden pests is imported cabbageworms. ...
Weed Control Plan for an Organic Vegetable Garden
There are a lot of great methods for controlling weeds without the use of chemicals. In fact, I can name 18 effective ways of controlling weeds off the top of my head. You could even use weeds in ...
How to Use Leaf Mold to Restore a Weedy Garden Bed
It happens to all of us gardeners at one point or another. Our garden gets out of hand. Unplanted beds get taken over by grasses and more insidious weeds. Sometimes the weeds can get so overwhelming ...