All About Growing Thyme in the Garden
Beautiful, delicious, aromatic, and self-sufficient, culinary thyme represents a form of perfection in the summer garden. Here’s how to grow some in your backyard.
7 Tips to Help Your Grow a Better Summer Garden
Spring permits the gardener a chance to crank-up that wonderful component of the growing season ahead: the summer vegetable garden.
Tips on Planting in Summer
Planting is not confined to spring and fall. You may have sound reasons for sowing seed in summer. Here is how.
Grow Your Own Asters
With more than 600 species in the Aster genus, you have a galaxy from which to choose the precise variety for your garden. Here’s how you grow these lovely flowers from seed.
8 Smart Ways to Keep Rats Out of Your Garden
Rats will fatten themselves on seeds, vegetables, bulbs, nuts, fruit, and – if you are very lucky – even flowers in your garden. Here are 8 safe ways to keep the vermin out.
Hügelkultur Raised Bed – Create an Organic, No-Till Garden
Small farmers and homesteaders all over the world have used hügelkultur to grow food and increase yields. Here’s how to build the ultimate raised bed in your garden.
6 Gardening Tips to Minimize Transplant Shock
In nature, plants put down roots and remain in one spot until they die. They are susceptible to damage when we move them. Here’s how to minimize transplant shock.
Start a Bee Garden and Help Save Nature’s Best Pollinators
While decline in the numbers of whales, wolves, and tigers is cause for worry, we should not forget that bee populations are also dwindling
Gardening on a slope? Here’s how to prevent soil erosion in your garden.
Soil erosion can leave slopes barren, allowing nothing but the hardiest plants to grow.
How to Remove Poison Ivy from Your Garden
Gardeners know all too well that not all flora is welcome in one’s backyard. But how exactly should you remove poison ivy from your garden?