Category: Organic Gardening
How to Use Fertilizers-Bone Meal
What are you growing this year? All of your plants, and especially potatoes, onions, garlic, and flower bulbs, will appreciate a feeding of bone meal! Bone meal is...
Tips to Growing and Preparing Gourmet Salad Greens
Great salads are more than just lettuce but the addition of complex flavors of salad greens. Flavors can range from spicy to nutty depending on what you grow. With so...
Pruning Raspberries and Blackberries
Cane berries are wonderful to grow in your edible landscape. They make a great hedge and give you sweet tasty berries as well. But to grow cane berries that produce...
When Will My Tomatoes Be Ripe?
Tomatoes are in full gear in the garden, loaded with lots of green, un-ripe tomatoes. So when will they ripen and how can you tell when is the best time to pick them?...
Vegan Organic Gardening
We all know why organic gardening is great – eliminating synthetic chemicals and growing naturally is the clear choice for gardeners who want to be good to Mother...
How to Grow in Straw Bales
Straw bale gardens are simple: the bale is the garden. It is the container and the soil, all in one! Straw bales are more convenient than building a raised bed or buying...
How to Grow Popcorn (and the best way to pop it!)
I love munching on a big bowl of popcorn in the evening. But it’s even better when the popcorn comes from my own garden! Growing your own popcorn allows you to...
What is Biochar?
Have you heard of biochar? This “new” organic fertilizer is a safe, effective soil amendment with a plethora of benefits from increasing water retention and soil...
Three Sisters Companion Planting Method
Companion planting is a useful gardening technique of growing certain veggies together to take advantage of their natural tendencies and relationships. This is an idea...
Worms In Your Apples?
It is such a satisfying experience to reach up into an apple tree and pluck a shiny apple from a branch. But if you take a big, juicy bite and see that the remaining...
