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Make inexpensive environmentally-friendly homemade organic fertilizer for your vegetable garden from foraged and waste materials. Includes DIY Organic Fertilizers you can make from seaweed, comfrey, and nettles. On its own, soil is a mixture of sand, crushed rock, and non-living substances. It takes decayed and broken down leaves, bark, and animal waste to transform dirt…
February garden jobs including seeds to sow, crops to harvest, winter garden organization, and projects for the vegetable garden. February is a great month to get ahead in the garden and make your start on this year’s productive vegetable garden. This selection of February garden jobs will help you learn how to choose and chit…
Tools and tips for starting seeds indoors including when to sow seeds, grow lights, propagators, and ways to successfully grow seedlings during the winter. Those of you with mild winters and warmth early in the spring have it easy. You can practically throw seeds in the soil outside and have a harvest in no time….
How to grow rosemary in pots, indoors and out in the garden, and also share how to harvest and use rosemary for both cooking and medicinal purposes. Rosemary is an easy to grow, versatile evergreen herb that adds a Mediterranean feel to the border all year round. In this piece, you’ll learn how to grow…
How to create an easy raspberry trellis for autumn-fruiting raspberries, and tips for alternative designs depending on planting style and raspberry type. When I took on a new plot at the allotment (community garden), it already had a raspberry patch. A previous tenant had created it, and I’d admired it for years as I walked…
Some of the best gifts for gardeners for 2020 including the latest gardening books, stocking fillers, useful gardening gifts, and extravagant gestures. Also, a list of some of the things that gardeners might not appreciate. If you’re lucky enough to have a gardener in your life, then you’re likely getting gifts all year-round. Fresh veggies…
Tips on starting a vegetable garden from scratch including ideas for clearing land, mulching, compost, and amending the soil In my experience as an allotment secretary, most new gardeners tend to arrive with the spring flush. Full of energy and excitement they begin digging and planting and generally wearing themselves out. They also have a…