Gardening

Great Herbal Gift Ideas from the Garden

One of the greatest joys of being a gardener is sharing your bounty. Most gardeners are proud to show off the fruits of their labor, and it can be so much fun putting together your very own homemade, garden-inspired gifts. If you are fortunate enough to have your own thriving herb garden, here are a [...]

The Perfect Mum

Chrysanthemums are very popular perennials. You can get mums in a variety of colors as well as in various growths all the way from the smaller dwarf plants all the way up to the Maxi-Mums.
These plants are very easy to grow so they would be good for a beginner gardener to try. If taken care [...]

Tips for Having Beautiful Peonies

The peony is just about the longest-living perennial plant you will ever see. There are two basic types of peonies – the herbaceous types and the tree peony.
It would be best to plant peonies at the back of flower borders as they are large plants. In the spring, the peonies have attractive ferny foliage and [...]

Maintaining Your Garden

Now that you have started a flower or vegetable garden, maintaining your garden is the next step to insure beautiful flowers and a bountiful harvest. Maintaining your garden is just as important as choosing what plants are going to be planted and how to plant them? With all the work that has been put into [...]

Venturing Into Herb Gardening

Now that you are seeing the money that you are basically throwing away at your local grocery store you are starting to see that there may be some benefit in herb gardening. Plus, it seems that whenever you are at the store, no matter what store it is, you are paying premium price for less [...]

Gardening Calendula

Spring starts early here in southern California, and that means you have to be ready! For an early display of colorful annuals in late February and March, you’ve got to get those seeds in the ground in October and November. But winter can bring cold days and hard rain, so you need seedlings that are [...]

A Garden For The Whole Family

You can have the most elaborated back yard from the entire neighborhood, but if it isn’t functional you have built it in vain. We all want to have beautiful and flourishing gardens, but when we have a family, we must also take into consideration the needs of the other members of it. Divide the space [...]

No Dig Gardening

The idea of no-dig gardening was developed by an Australian named Esther Deans. It was originally both developed both as a labor saving idea, and a method to rejuvenate badly depleted soil in a vegetable garden.
The process involves starting with layers of newspaper, and by adding lucerne hay, straw and compost in succeeding layers, you [...]

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