Category: Gardening

How to Grow a lot of Food in a Small Garden

We’re always looking for ways to grow more food in our small garden, and over the years, we’ve adopted nine strategies for maximizing our growing space. Today I thought I’d share these strategies with you in the form of nine simple tips. The first tip is to grow in garden beds instead of rows. Growing

How to Grow Grapes

The 2 year grape journey is a sweet and interesting journey of planting Thompson seedless grapes all the way to harvest so sit back and enjoy as we go through grape paradise. So we started our grapes back in January of 2015.  It is the flame seedless grape. We got this at home people and

Why I’ve Abandoned These 10 Gardening Products & Practices

Over the years I’ve abandoned a number of gardening products and practices that I grew up with or used in my own garden in the past. This process of elimination has allowed me to develop a low cost low effort approach to gardening that gets excellent results by focusing on what really works. Today I’ll

Putting in a Small Garden Pond

There you have it. Well’ you know, don’t you have to set your boundaries first? I do! It’s getting there. After I dig I will I will know how much of that liner I will need. I went deeper than I thought. I’m going to start right here and go straight up here and go

High Grade Fertilizer that Most Gardeners Forget:

  Alright! This is John Kohler with growingyourgreens.com,today we have another exciting episode for you, and what we’re doing today. Actually I’m going to go ahead and give you guys a tour of my front yard garden. Instead of a lawn, I have a whole nice garden that I’m going to share with you guys,

Color Schemes in a Perennial Garden Design

The one thing about matching colors together especially flowers like day lilies which come in every single color, shape, ruffle, and size is what you want to do is experiment with which color looks nice together. I have found that if you put colors together that are the same even if they are beautiful they

Scientists May Have Found a Way to Bring the Flavor Back to Tomatoes

Image: AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall Supermarket tomatoes don’t exactly pack a punch of flavor by comparison to their heirloom counterparts. The bland little fruits are a little watery, a little sour and a little sweet, basically a shade of what their traditional varieties are. But now, a team of scientists may be on the way toward

US Lists First Bumble Bee Species as Endangered

Rusty patched bumble bee population plunged nearly 90% since the late 1990s The rusty patched bumble bee, a prized but vanishing pollinator once familiar to much of North America, was listed on Tuesday as an endangered species, becoming the first wild bee in the continental United States to gain such federal protection. One of several

Bring Butterflies and Hummingbirds Home With a Single Plant

The humble scarlet beebalm (Monarda didyma) has a lot to recommend it, especially in eastern North America, where it originated. This easy-care perennial not only attracts bees to your garden, but butterflies and hummingbirds also find it irresistible. Its a welcome addition to a perennial garden, a naturalistic garden or an herb garden. If thats