Archive for the ‘Gardening’ Category
Vegetable Garden Basics – What to Grow
What To Grow Don’t go overboard with your seed ordering after viewing all the colorful garden catalogs with their beautiful pictures of veggies or you may be the gardener in your neighborhood trying to give away zucchini. Grow what your [...]
Winter Preparation for the Lawn and Garden
Once the chore of keeping your lawn mowed over the long hot summer begins to draw to a close, it’s time to start thinking about what you might do to help it remain healthy and strong over the winter so [...]
Common Problems when Growing Tomatoes
Tomato hornworms are large (2 to 3 inch long when fully grown), green caterpillars with white stripes on the body. A horn protrudes from the top rear end of the worm. Tomato hornworms feed on the leaves and fruit. Several [...]
Building an Easy Garden Trellis for Fruits and Veggies
By: Kenny Point A couple of recent emails requested information on building a homemade garden trellis. Growing vertically is such a great way to save space and even increase yields for crops such as cucumbers, squash, pole beans, and other [...]
Tomato Care in the Garden
Apply starter fertilizer when transplanting. Hoe or cultivate shallowly to keep down weeds without damaging roots. Mulching is recommended, especially for gardeners who wish to maintain their plants for full season harvest. Black plastic or organic materials are suitable for [...]
Ways to Get your Kids Into Organic Gardening
Give them their own ‘patch’. This is a enthusiastic artefact for kids to see to be answerable for something. It’s best if their connector is small, at diminutive in the beginning. If they fuck it and poverty to do more, [...]
Mulch and Feed your Gardens for Free
In Today’s throwaway society, there is absolutely no need to go out and purchase mulch material for your garden, unless it is for the particular aesthetic appearance, “The Look”, sake of the mulch material. Were you aware that there are [...]
Vegetable Gardening Basics
By: The University of Illinois Extension All gardens have problems. One year it may be insects and disease and the next year it may be a drought. Gardening does require work, but by learning a few basic skills and techniques, [...]
Gardening While Exercising
Many people think of gardening as a chore. Others take up gardening as a hobby. Still there are others who could not even begin to give a proper definition of the term gardening. Whether you love gardens and gardening or [...]
Tomato Home Preservation
Tomatoes are excellent for canning, freezing, and drying. With a forced-air dehydrator, you can make your own sun dried tomatoes. Use plum-type Romas, with their thick, meaty flesh and low percentage of water for best results. Once they are dried, [...]