Gardening

Here is a short list of vital jobs to be doing in the vegetable garden during February.

Here is a basic calendar of the essential jobs you need to do each month to ensure your garden is both attractive and productive.

If you live in a cold-weather zone, you know that winter can be hard on garden plants. Here are tips for protecting your valuable woody plants. Watering: Good winter care starts with thorough watering in the...

Every fall intrepid gardeners ponder their properties and plan for the new year. Or, more likely, every spring property owners drive about and jealously wonder why they did not plan ahead for beautiful spring...

At lavender harvest time, you still can seen ladies with big baskets on their arms walking the streets of old Europe. Their baskets are filled with intriguingly scented fresh lavender stalks nicely bundled, and...

Dreaming of a private, well-appointed outdoor space where your family and guests can relax while enjoying nature? Consider how these other suggestions might also help put those wheels in motion.

It does not matter whether you put your kitchen scraps in the compost or the bin, did you know that you could grow many of your favourite fruit or vegetables from those scraps. Indeed,...

Tips an ideas to get the most out of container gardening. ♦ Brighten up a corner by putting a small clipped box bush in a wide clay pan and surround it with enough thyme plants...

If you have decided you want to create your own kitchen herb garden, you must first decide on what herbs to grow in it. Once you have done that you can start preparing your...

Just because it's the winter season doesn't mean that you have to stop growing your basil. Moving your favorite herb indoors and continuing its growth can be easy and even more convenient. Let's take...

Fruits look so good that are irresistible. Further their leaves shine in the sun and the flowers radiate a sweet and seducing scent. The citric are one of the most ornamental and fascinating houseplants....

This year we planted several different varieties of sunflowers. The colors were just amazing, from an almost neon yellow to a deep autumn red. One thing they all had in common though, was the...

The long tale about the sunflower plant also known as "Helianthus Annuus" is without a doubt very fascinating and proves to have a long diverse history. The wild sunflower is now home to North...

Microgreens,  highly dense nutrient packed little greens. They are the seedlings of vegetables or herbs and harvested after the cotyledon leaves have developed. At time of harvest, it has fully developed cotyledon leaves and...

Seed bombing has been popular in urban areas for some time. But the idea is applicable for other areas as well. What is seed bombing? It's a fun, easy, and environmentally friendly way to...