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When Blooms Fade, Grab Your Spade! A Guide To Dividing Plants In The Fall

As the summer season winds down, so do the blooms of many of our favorite flowers in the garden. As …

Garden Ollas: An Ancient Watering Method For The Modern Gardener

Have you heard of a garden olla (oy-yah)? They’ve been around for thousands of years. According to the Farmer’s Almanac, they …

Nutrient Lockout in Hydroponics – Less Mulder, More Scully

Everest Fernandez takes a real-world look at the problem of “nutrient lockout” in recirculating hydroponics systems. Nutrient lockout sucks. Indoor …

Rhubarb Leaves A Key Ingredient In This DIY Organic Pesticide Recipe

If you grow rhubarb at home, you probably think about making muffins, pies, and jams. But how about a homemade …

August Is A Month For Enjoying The Garden And Prepping For Fall

It’s August, and the dog days of summer have arrived. The garden is full of blooms, and many veggies are …

5 Beneficial Bugs To Look For In Your Garden

Bugs! Just the word itself has connotations of annoyance and intrusiveness. Not to mention that there’s an entire industry dedicated …

Tips For Balancing Your Soil’s pH

Soil pH (or hydrogen ion concentration) indicates how acid or alkaline our soil or growing medium is. It is measured …

Hügelkultur Gardening: A Different Approach To Growing In Containers

As plants in containers grow, they use valuable nutrients in the soil that they cannot replenish naturally. As a result, …

Checking In? Why Insect Hotels Are Essential In Every Garden

We build birdhouses for the chickadees, swallows, and robins that call our gardens home. We set up mason bee houses …

Safe And Humane Ways To Keep Animals Out Of The Garden

…by for lunch, he’ll take one sniff and head off to the milder garden down the road. The spicey spray should also keep deer and squirrels away and many unwanted…

Scouting: 7 Guidelines To Build Your Garden Vigilance

The number one practice that will add power to your Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is scouting. I often see professional …

How To Water Your Plants While You’re Away

So, you’re taking a vacation. Good for you! And you’ve thought of everything, right? You cleaned out the fridge of …

Heat Waves Are The New Normal, So How Do We Adapt?

With another growing season underway, I am reflecting on our changing climate. I remember the long and cold spring of …

These July Garden Tips Will Help Your Garden Thrive Throughout The Summer

The garden is reaching its peak blooming period; a few plants need summer love to keep it in tip-top shape. …

Why Thinning Plants Leads To A Healthier Garden

When I first began growing food at home, I remember believing the concept of plant ‘thinning’ absurd. Germination was everything, …

Watering Woes: One Gardener’s Quest For A Clean Drink

Between lethal microbials and microplastics, our drinking water is a cacophony of fluctuating unknowns. I can’t be the only water …

Helping The Garden Survive Smoke And Ash From Wildfires

No matter where you live, there is a good chance that you’ve experienced the effects of wildfire smoke. As the …

Organic-Regenerative Gardeners, Here’s The Buzz About Borage

While getting some much-needed garden therapy at my local nursery recently, I came across a spectacular-looking plant that I decided …

Strategies for Gardening with Climate Change

Changing climatic conditions, extreme weather events like flooding, and increasingly cloudy days have been more common in the last year. …

Adding Splashes Of Color To The Garden And Containers With Impatiens

Everyone has a favorite summer annual they rely upon every year to add color to bare garden spots or containers. …

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