Green & Organic

You don't have to give up your love of plants just because you have poor soil. No matter were you live you can amend the soil in your yard or rejuvenate old potting soil with the help of some easy...

Growing zucchini and squash in your home garden is one of the true pleasures of summer. While perhaps not as much fun as growing summer tomatoes (see link), zucchini are a great summer vegetable...

The best time start growing garlic in the United States is in the fall. Before I discovered this fact, I always thought that I couldn't grow garlic. The resulting small bulbs wasn't worth the...

Vertical gardens are also referred to as living walls. If you are going to grow a garden UP a wall rather than along the ground, whether it is for building wall insulation the natural way,...

So after your kids are done playing with the box from your new flat screen, you bundle it with the rest of the cardboard for recycle day, right? Wrong! That cardboard is just what the gardener...

I use my vegetable garden as a place to unwind after a stressful day. Although I first started my vegetable garden, after I was behind a lady at the supermarket who was going to buy 2 tomatoes...

Plants and produce are growing well. When you go out to pick the fruits of your labor, you find that the critters have gotten to them first.

Need garden pest control? Natural methods include various biological sprays and powders. You might want to attract toads as living garden pest control. Every night, toads will stalk and consume 50...

Some home gardens are more eco-friendly than others. Part of this is due to water usage. One study estimates that about a third of outdoor water usage for the typical residential home in the...

Now that going eco-friendly has become popular there are more ways to save energy and water in the landscape than ever before. And creative designers are coming up with ornamental ways to do it. ...

Spinach is a cold weather low maintenance crop and so easy to grow and harvest. It only took 6 weeks to start enjoying it this year. My husbands garden is all organic so our organic spinach is...

Looking for an inexpensive and easy way to grow your own vegetables? Create a raised vegetable garden bed. It is a great way to keep out pests and allow your vegetables more room to grow. ...

How to create a modified French-intensive no-till raised-bed bio-dynamic organic food garden using found materials. These pictures are from a garden created in an abandoned orange orchard near the...

As a gardener, it has become my goal to become more educated on how to maintain organic pest control methods in my yard and gardens. When you know nothing about organic pest control and gardening,...

Every year, thousands of homeowners decide they are going to grow organic tomatoes easily this summer. Unfortunately, growing organic vegetables isn't always as easy as it sounds. You must avoid...

Go green with growing your own vegetable garden and planting flowers around your home. You will find you do not need a huge garden area, just pots or shared space with access to existing water...

Beautify your home with an indoor organic garden. An indoor organic garden could be all the remodeling you need for your home instead of buying new furniture, painting walls and changing floors....

In the winter of 2006 the honey bee population began to die out. Since then, as much as 70% of some bee populations have died as a result of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). Seventy farm grown...

The National Gardening Association says 43 Million American households plan to plant edible gardens in 2009. This is 19 percent increase compared to last year. Why? Home grown food is healthy...

No one wants bugs in their garden eating up the plants they have spent so much time planting and tending. Here are some easy steps you can take that are cheap and natural that will help keep your...

Planting a garden landscape can be fun. All the shopping and choosing of plants can make putting the garden together a creative project. But what do you do with all the plastic pots (field pots)...

Remember the great taste of tomatoes in your grandma's garden? I used to eat them straight off the bushes! If you've wondered why you can't capture that same taste with today's seeds, the answer...

Fresh and nutritious vegetables are a shopper's dream, but if we also want organically grown, we will have to pay a premium and sometimes they are not available everywhere. Is there a simple...

With much of our foods being purchased at our supermarkets going through virtually endless processing, how can the consumer avoid a good part of it? Sometimes, you have to develop a sense of...

The economic downturn has turned many people to starting their own gardens. A portion of these new gardeners have decided to not only grow their own vegetables to save money, but to start an...

Lawn replacement is an alternative way to plant your landscape rather than using the traditional lawn. You opt to skip a lawn for a number of reasons. Lawns are costly and wasteful in areas where...

Organic gardens have grown in popularity over the last several years. These types of gardens offer an easy way for most people to participate in green living and supporting our environment. ...

Green roofs are encouraged as a natural way of insulating homes, businesses and other structures. By turning a roof into an extended garden or lawn, you can turn nature into an energy saver while...

As the economy worsens, those who have the desire to save money by vegetable gardening can elicit the help of their neighbors to start a community garden right in their own backyard. This not only...

You actually DO want to encourage worms in the garden. These slimy little wrigglers aerate soil and mix up organic matter into the inorganic parts of soil. They enrich the soil which, in turn,...

As organic as storebought tomatoes claim to be, they still will never compare with delicious, vine-ripened home grown tomatoes. Growing tomatoes in an urban, suburban, or rural garden is fun and...

Organic pesticides are utilized many home gardens and commercial crops. Pesticides are used to eradicate or deter garden pests including insects, diseases and even other invasive plants. Organic...

More and more people are becoming environmentally conscious, which is a very good thing. We have learned to recycle, but it seems we still generate a lot of trash. Following are some ways in...

By growing your own vegetables you will save money, get exercise and eat healthier! It's a WIN-WIN situation for you and your whole family!

What does it mean to Garden off the Grid? Simply defined, it means to garden in a way that is sustainable. Learning how to garden without using any outside resources is a rewarding education...

There are lots of herbs that are great compliments to vegetable plants and that help get rid of the pests that like to invade our gardens. Here is a list of a few.

What is a sustainable landscape? London2012.com defined their goal for the next Olympic Games as a major effort in sustainability: "Being ‘sustainable’ means providing for peoples’ current...

Lettuce getting eaten by something other than people? Flowers overrun by slugs? If you you have a snail problem- look no further. you can rid your garden of snails without harming pets or...

We have been taught from a small age that weeds are bad and we should eliminate them from our gardens and flowerbeds. I once had a huge pumpkin vine in the city. Although I had a few pumpkins...

Milky Spore powder is an amazing product developed for us gardeners, by Mother Nature. Organic and natural, Milky Spore kills off Japanese beetle grubs that damage the lawn by: (a) chewing on...