Clever tips for using the way wild ecosystems work to create a self-sustaining and bountiful food garden. This is sustainable garden design at its best and benefits soil, plants, yield, and community
Make inexpensive environmentally-friendly homemade plant fertilizer for your vegetable garden from foraged and waste materials. Includes DIY plant fertilizers you…
February garden jobs including seeds to sow, crops to harvest, winter garden organization, and projects for the vegetable garden.
Tools and tips for starting seeds indoors including when to sow seeds, grow lights, propagators, and ways to successfully grow seedlings during the winter.
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.
How to create an easy raspberry trellis for autumn-fruiting raspberries. It’s an H-shaped frame that gives support to wide beds of raspberries and is very easy to build. Also tips for alternative designs depending on planting style and raspberry type.
These twenty winter gardening projects will keep you busy in the colder months and prepare the garden for the year ahead. Ideas include creating more growing space, DIY plant pots, planting hedgerows and bare-root plants, and much more
A visit to a permaculture food forest and p-patch, how it works, and realistic tips for starting your own urban food forest. A food forest is a place where food plants are grown in layers that simulate the layers of a forest.
Black plastic mulch can kill grass and weeds to make space for a vegetable garden or new border. It’s an eco-friendly way to clear land without having to use herbicides.
