Choosing between hot compost vs cold compost is less about finding one universally superior method and more about matching composting to the way you actually garden. Hot composting can transform …
Imagine walking up to one apple tree and picking a green apple from one branch, a red apple from another, and a completely different cultivar from a third. That sounds …
When the last tomatoes are harvested and the vegetable garden begins to empty, leaving the beds bare until spring can seem perfectly reasonable. But bare soil is not resting. Rain …
A fruit tree does not have to spread into a broad, rounded canopy. With careful pruning and training, you can persuade its branches to grow in an almost two-dimensional pattern …
A simple drip irrigation system can turn daily hand-watering into a mostly automatic routine without requiring professional plumbing. Instead of spraying an entire bed, drip irrigation moves water slowly through …
Bright orange, yellow, and red nasturtium flowers may look purely ornamental, but these fast-growing annuals can play a useful role in vegetable-garden pest management. Used correctly, nasturtium trap crop pest …
You do not need rich garden soil, a permanent raised bed, or even a traditional backyard plot to grow vegetables successfully. Straw bale gardening turns an ordinary bale of straw …
African violets are among the most rewarding houseplants to multiply at home because an entire cluster of young plants can develop from a single healthy leaf. African violet leaf propagation …
Dark, crumbly, earthy, and surprisingly valuable in the garden, worm castings are the finished material produced when composting worms and microorganisms process organic waste. Gardeners sometimes call them “black gold” …
Gardeners spend a surprising amount of time moving organic matter around. We pull plants, carry them to a compost pile, wait for decomposition, then haul the finished compost back to …