How, What, When, and Why You Should Trim Your Onion Seedlings If you start onions from seed (or most anything in the allium family), trimming them should be part of your regular care and maintenance plan. It’s not at all hard to do, but it will give you bigger, better, stronger plants and ...
5 Ways to Plan Your Garden Layout and How to Do it
Planning the layout of your vegetable garden can be an overwhelming task. That bare patch of dirt (or lovely raised bed or patio, as the case may be) is like a big, brown, blank canvas. You know its potential is something great—figuring out what to put where to make it so is a bit of a different ...
17 Beautiful Flowers for Small Balcony Gardens
Are you struggling to pick the flowers you want for your balcony? Your local garden nursery might offer hundreds of flower options, but not all are good flowers for small balcony gardens with limited space. When you pick flowers for a balcony flower garden, you want to make sure they’re suitable ...
15 Composting Mistakes You Need to Stop Making
Composting is one of the best things that you can do for your garden and the environment. It’s believed that Americans produce around 4.5 pounds of waste daily, and most of that is compostable. If everyone started a compost, the environment would benefit, but you don’t want to make one of these ...
12 Tomato Growth Hacks for a High Yield Harvest
Tomatoes are one of those crops that people can’t get enough of; it’s better to have a bumper crop of tomatoes than not enough. If you want a high yield harvest of tomatoes, you need a few tomato growth hacks. Nothing beats fresh, homegrown tomatoes. It doesn’t matter whether or not you preserve ...
30 Columbine Varieties and How to Care for Them
Columbines, also known as Granny’s Bonnet and by the scientific name Aquilegia is one of the most popular flowers grown in gardens today. It is found in meadows and mountainous regions of the Northern Hemisphere growing wild, but mostly you’ll find it growing along garden borders these days. There ...
Homemade Beeswax Based Gardener's Balm Recipe
If you’ve gardened for any time at all then you are likely familiar with how rough it can be on your hands. Your skin can get dried out and start cracking as you work with your hands and the skin can become red and irritated too as it’s rubbed against all sorts of different things. If you’re working ...
16 Perennial Vegetables and Fruits Every Garden Needs
Every garden needs perennial vegetable and fruit plants for one simple reason – they're less work! You get them set up the first year, and then with a little bit of tending each year, they provide you with ample food. Perennial vegetables are essential for the backyard garden, and there are so many ...
50 Pansy Varieties and How to Care For Them
Pansies are one of the most popular flowers to grow in the entire world and because of their popularity, there have been hundreds, if not thousands of varieties developed. They are featured in pretty much every flower garden and are a popular ornamental plant for garden beds because they come in a ...
19 Top Tips For Using Coffee Grounds In The Garden
If you drink coffee, you’ve got grounds. Probably more than you even realize. And that’s good news considering the many, many uses for coffee grounds in the garden! Even if you’re not a coffee drinker, it’s not hard to source them. Once you realize all that you can do with coffee grounds in your ...