The Amazing Square-Foot Garden: How to Grow More with Less
Square-foot gardens allows you to get a high yield from a small area. Here’s how to start a square-foot garden in your backyard
Potato Grow Bags: 4 Practical Tips for Growing Potatoes
Potato grow bags are a godsend for gardening enthusiasts who love spuds but have limited space in which to grow them. They also make harvesting easy. All you have to do is empty the contents of the bag, collect up the tubers, and dispose of the compost on other beds or borders to improve the […]
Compact Aquaponic Garden: Save Space in 5 Steps
Starting an aquaponic garden involves some work. But once you have the system started, it requires little in the way of maintenance. Here’s all you need to know to start an aquaponic garden.
Is it Time to Start Your Vegetable Patch?
You may have already noticed frogspawn lacing the ponds and crocuses poking through the grass. Now is the perfect time to start getting busy outdoors!
7 Effective & Safe Ways to Keep Birds Away from Your Garden
Not every gardener wants birds sauntering onto their garden plots. Here’s how to protect your backyard harvest without harming unwanted avian visitors.
How to Grow Sugar Snap Peas from Seed
Home-grown sugar snaps are much sweeter, more succulent, and far tastier than anything you can grab from a grocery shelf.
Growing Cauliflowers in Containers
The cauliflower is a wide, girthy plant, but its roots run surprisingly shallow. That makes the delicious cool-weather vegetable an excellent candidate for container gardening!
Crop Rotation 101: What it is and Why You Need to Know
Planting the same thing in the same place year after year drains nutrients from the soil. You can avoid this by changing what you plant on a particular plot or bed from year to year.
Succession Cropping to Get More out of Your Garden
Over the years, farmers and gardeners have developed several methods of succession planting, making efficient use of space, crop varieties, climate, and timing. Here are a few tips to help you grow a succession garden 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.