If your plants look like they were too close to a bonfire, all covered in black soot, you more than likely have sooty mold problems. It's easy to identify from its unique look, but it can appear ...
A Beginner’s Guide to Transplanting Plants
After you start your seeds and sprout your seedlings, the next hurdle that you need to conquer is transplanting your plants into your garden. Transplanting the wrong way could kill your plants, ...
11 Ways to Put Your Garden to Bed in Winter
Did you start a new garden this year and are now wondering what to do with your beds over the winter? The one thing you absolutely don’t want to do is leave your garden beds naked and idle over ...
How to Make Your Own Seed Starting Mix (Recipes)
Starting seed time is one of my favorite tasks of the year, but it can be, without a doubt, an expensive time as well. Buying the mix needed to fill your pots can be costly. The alternative? Make your ...
Growing Rapeseed: Planting Guide, Care, Problems and Harvest
Rapeseed is a far more useful plant than it gets credit for. Not only can you use it to make the famous oil, but it makes good forage and an excellent cover crop for both winter and summer. Plus, you ...
Tips for Starting a Successful Community Seed Bank
Do you know when is the best time to start a community seed bank? Right now. (And I don't mean the blustery autumn day that I'm writing this, but whenever you're reading it. Yes, now.) We ...
Growing Mitsuba: How to Grow and Enjoy this Beautiful Japanese Herb
Mitsuba is as familiar to Asian chefs as parsley is to Europeans and North Americans, but it's about time more people across the entire globe started growing this marvelous herb. Mitsuba has edible ...
How to Grow Pineapples No Matter Where You Live
Believe it or not, growing pineapples isn't as challenging as you might think, and you can grow them almost anywhere. Most people assume that growing pineapples must be left to those who live in ...
3 Ways to Tell Tomatoes Are Ripe If You’re Red-Green Color-Blind
If you're one of the millions of people worldwide who just happen to be color-blind, you may find food gardening a bit more challenging than others do. When it comes to fruits and vegetables like ...