How To Make The Best Soil For Your Vegetable Garden
I know from experience you need to start with great soil to grow great vegetables. All year long, I am doing something or other to make sure my garden has good, healthy soil.
Category: Gardening In General
Gardening has many different aspects, such as light, water, soil, fertilizer, compost, hardiness zones, design, tools and equipment, its many terms, starting a garden, and seasonal practices. Don’t worry if this sounds like a lot because most of it is easy to learn and implement. We’ll help you along the way as you explore these areas to start or better your garden. As you do, let us know what else we can do or how your journey is going. We’d love to hear from you!
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How To Protect Your Vegetable Garden From Frost
Let’s dive into what you can do to protect your vegetable garden from frost. The good news is these are the best tips and quickest methods gardeners commonly use, so you’ll be able to implement them quickly, too.
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How To Start An Indoor Vegetable Garden: The Complete Guide
Thankfully, growing a few small vegetables in your home or other living space is not difficult. However, you do have some important things to think about before starting. But with some careful planning, the process will be easy and successful.
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How To Start Your Vegetable Garden: The Complete Guide
Growing vegetables isn’t all that difficult, either. Yes, there are “ideal” conditions for reaping the highest yields, but most vegetables are pretty forgiving. Even if everything isn’t perfect, your plants will likely produce something. That said, here are the steps to start your own vegetable garden.
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Everything To Know About How To Save Your Seeds For Next Year
A seed is the beginning and the end of your plant’s life cycle. So, seed saving may be for you if you like bringing things full circle. Seed saving is also very practical since you’ll be stocking up for your garden next year.
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How To Use Ashes In Your Garden (But Why You Might Not Want To)
Ashes (specifically untreated wood ashes) contain some compounds that may benefit plant growth. Still, there are a few important steps I suggest before you take your ashes into your garden.
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Are Ashes Good For Your Garden?
Gardeners commonly receive advice to use ashes to fertilize their gardens. Maybe you’ve gotten the same advice or heard about large-scale agricultural operations using them. But are ashes good for your garden?
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Hawai’i Plant Hardiness Zones Map And Gardening Guide
Hawai’i’s plant hardiness zones range from 9a to 13a. Most of its land area falls into hardiness zone 11. Hawai’i has a range of climate conditions, even including a polar region (and microclimates as well). However, you can enjoy year-round gardening in much of Hawai’i, with relatively mild weather and few extremes.
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When And How To Use Landscape Fabric (Or Not)
Manufacturers market landscape fabric (or weed barrier) as a long-term solution to reduce or prevent weed growth in your garden. Who wouldn’t want that? Unfortunately, for those of us who have installed landscape fabric before, we soon come to regret it. It doesn’t perform well long-term, and it usually ends up causing more problems than…
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All The Pros And Cons Of Landscape Fabric
Manufacturers market landscape fabric (or weed barrier) as a great solution to reduce or even prevent weed growth in your garden in the long term. And who wouldn’t love to avoid pulling weeds? Unfortunately, if you haven’t had the “pleasure” of using landscape fabric before, you won’t know the regret that comes with it.
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What Is Landscape Fabric (And Should You Use It?)
As a professional garden consultant, I have had many clients ask me about landscape fabric. In short, it’s a material manufacturers allege prevents weeds in your garden. And what gardener doesn’t want that? Unfortunately, landscape fabric doesn’t live up to those expectations. In fact, it creates more problems than it solves in the long run.
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What Is Leaf Mold (And How To Make It)?
Leaf mold is not the same as moldy leaves. The former is an excellent conditioner for garden soil and will add vital elements to it. The latter is likely some kind of plant disease. Leaf mold is essentially fungus decomposing leaves. Whereas any number of microscopic bacteria may break down the leaves in your compost…
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How To Use Dead Leaves In Your Garden: Step-By-Step
You can use dead leaves as mulch in your garden to protect your plants from hot and cold temperatures and add nutrients to the soil. Also, by gathering leaves, shredding them with a lawn mower, and applying them to your garden, you prevent leaves from ending up in landfills and save money.
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Missouri Plant Hardiness Zones Map And Guide
USDA hardiness zones are based on average low winter temperatures recorded for each region over time. Knowing this information is a useful starting point for a successful garden.
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Are Dead Leaves Good For Your Garden?
For years, I considered dead leaves littering my lawn a nuisance. Cleaning up dead leaves, loading them in huge plastic bags, and disposing of them was a staple of my fall. Little did I know, I was wasting an amazing free resource for my garden.
