Ever heard of kitchen waste compost? It is a super simple and fun way to help your garden, recycle, and limit waste. It helps the environment as well! What is kitchen waste compost? Composting is an organic substance that can help plants grow and your soil become more rich and healthy. Combining food scraps, and […]

Summer means gardening and enjoying all of that fresh homegrown food, and it can be agreed upon that one of the best fresh-from-the-garden vegetables is a cucumber. Whether you are making pickles, or just want a crunchy snack, cucumber trellises are essential to growing the best cucumbers. Growing Cucumbers Vertically on a Trellis? Growing cucumbers […]

Did you know that edible roses are actually a thing? Yep. Roses have a rich history dating back to ancient times. The eye-catching flower growing on beautiful trellises has been used in medicine, fragrances, and on dinner plates and drinking cups throughout time. That’s right, the sweet smelling rose is an edible flower and if […]

Planting a spring garden is fun and can give you a big head start this year growing nutritious food at home. If the weather is giving you a serious case of spring fever, fear not, the time to start working in the garden is right now! March is the perfect month of the year to […]

If you’re dreaming of a gorgeous yard enclosed by greenery rather than vinyl, chainlink or wood fencing then you’ll want to consider planting privacy trees or shrubs. There are many privacy trees & shrubs that are fast growing plants for privacy. When trees and shrubs make up your privacy fence then you can enjoy beautiful fresh […]

So this week I wanted to go over mulch and how to use mulch effectively in your garden. I talked a little about mulch in a previous article 10 best ways to get rid of weed naturally. We went over how effective mulch is against weeds and how it can be used to basically smother […]

Do you live in a hot and dry climate? Have you struggled with knowing how and when to fertilize your garden or properly compost? Keyhole gardening is a method of raised bed gardening that was created to solve those very problems. Read on to learn about the benefits of keyhole gardens and how to start […]

Weeds are defined as plants that cause economic losses, ecological damages or are undesirable where they are growing. Any diligent gardener has a weed (or two, three, or four!) that they would love to be rid of forever. Not only do they rob needed nutrients from your plants, but they are also take away from […]