Buckets can be an inexpensive and versatile way to garden. Vegetables, flowers and herbs can all be grown in buckets. Space-saving and portable, you can move them when your plants…
Plants
Herbs are fun to grow and your kids will love having their own garden to tend to. Herbs are easy to grow from seed, requiring little patience as some herbs,…
Slugs are in every garden, and cause more damage than most garden invaders. Commercial slug killers are available, but they can be toxic to birds and other wildlife, and are…
Hanging baskets are a much loved method for featuring favorite plants hanging in well-selected places at home, either indoors or outside. This article provides a brief rundown on preparing a…
Growing the prize-winning leek requires obsession. Sabotaging your competitors requires obsession. Even raising the annual prize money calls for unprecedented levels of devotion.
Because giant celery has such a long maturity time, giant celery needs to be planted at the beginning of January in a heated greenhouse. Because you will be starting off…
Beetroot is in the top 10 most popular vegetables for growing in our gardens. Growing Beetroot is popular because it is relatively easy to grow and Beetroot can be eaten…
Chard is also known as Swiss chard or silver beet, and is a truly nutritious vegetable. Chard leaves contain antioxidants and anti-cancer chemicals in abundance. Step One Select chard seeds…
Birds are observant, smart and hungry. Especially during drought conditions and times when food is hard to find, birds of many species hone in on the tender, nutritious, sprouted seedlings…
echnically speaking, all wallflowers are perennial; that is, they live for more than one or two years. However, they are not long-lived plants, which is why the spring-flowering hybrids, like…