Your Modern Guide to Preparing
If you live anywhere near itchy plants, you probably know about nettle, poison oak, and poison ivy. However, there’s an even larger number of plants that you could consider to be bullies. These plants might look innocuous, but they will make it hard for other garden plants to grow. Avoid these bullies, and you’ll find… [read more]
I love gardening, and I have grown many gardens over the years. However, right now, we live in an apartment. We have zero yard space, and a patio that is shaded for most of the day. Growing our own vegetables is a challenge in an apartment, but it can be done. Tips for Gardening… [read more]
Many plants are friendly sorts. They’ll sit nicely in your compost and decompose, making excellent soil for your garden. If you alternate nitrogen-rich vegetable scraps and carbon-rich old leaves, you’ll create a wonderful soil amendment for your garden. Compost is not only a great way to add nutrients to your garden, it’s also a good… [read more]
Are you enjoying and loving your garden so full of vegetables and fruits? So are the bugs, slugs and snails. Approaches to pests has ranged from repelling garden pests with companion planting and other all natural bug killers to full out chemical assault: Get out the most toxic chemicals we could find, suit up in… [read more]
