Hydroponic gardening is not new, but it has seen an increase in popularity lately. This is easily understandable, as hydroponics require minimal space, use 90%…
Perennials offer great value in the flower or shade garden. These plants come back year after year with really minimal care and produce fabulous flowers…
Would you like to create an edible landscape? Some individuals are turning their lawns or small acreages into food-producing backyard gardens representing a sustaining, integrating…
How to plan, plant, and grow a fabulous garden that lightens up the shadows. Is shade a constant problem in your garden? Do you find…
Herbs are easy to grow as most of them are generally undemanding, requiring just enough light and adequate soil to produce well. They are useful…
Once upon a time, there was a Garden Guru named Steve Solomon, who grew loads and loads of fresh produce, wrote gardening books that people…
To a generation who grew up on Lassie, Little House on the Prairie, and Green Acres, living a rural, homesteading lifestyle is about fairy tales and…
In the last 40 years, human understanding of fungi, and their role in farm and garden ecosystems, has grown dramatically. As a result, there is…
Come spring, the nursery catalogs will be arriving in the mail. All of us are entertaining grandiose gardening plans. This year, while planning your food…
There’s nothing quite as frustrating as having some know-it-all tell you why your cucumbers aren’t getting bigger than pickles, or why your tomatoes look like…
What is Permaculture? Permanent agriculture. A system for feeding and caring for ourselves that can be supported indefinitely by Nature because it imitates Nature's own…
Say the words feces, scat, feculence, crap, caca, and a shovel-full of other euphemisms and you would be describing pretty much any animal’s defecation. Poop,…