Cottage backyard ideas offer a feast for the senses. Be inspired to turn your garden into a relaxed and inviting oasis
How to start an organic garden with ease
Instead of using synthetic or toxic chemicals, organic gardeners create a natural garden ecosystem that gives more to the earth than it takes away. More than anything else, organic gardening requires altering your mindset about gardening. Here are three basic concepts to get you started on your path to an organic garden.
Need a little #gardeninspo? Here are 9 creative ways to add personality, style and interest to any size garden or outdoor space.
DIY living functional garden decorations & outdoor structures: magical grass sofa, fun bean teepee, beautiful grape & rose arches, willow dome & fence, etc!
On a half-acre near downtown Littleton, a couple creates a retreat reminiscent of a quaint European garden.
Understanding temperature conditions is really important when you're planting outdoor herbs. Here's an infographic to help you help them!
Are you thinking about starting a cut flower garden, and have no idea where to start? I'll show you the process I go through when planning my cut flower garden each season.
a beautiful solution to keep pests out of our lettuce
Tour beautiful gardens created by homeowners throughout the Midwest and get ideas for transforming your own yard.
Not sure what seeds to plant in April for your vegetable garden? This is has everything - vegetables, fruits and herbs zone 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10.
Even if you're not ready to plant your garden, there are many tasks you can do to prepare. Here’s our checklist.
Make the most of your time in the garden by doing these 6 tasks every day. Make this practice a habit and they will become second nature.
Is there anything more thrilling than preparing a garden plot that will pay floral dividends for years to come? Many gardeners plant peonies for pure enjoyment, but peonies also play an important role commercially as a high-dollar flower for floral design work. As a farmer-florist, you can grow the cultivars that compliment your design style, including some that are otherwise hard to find or not available on the commercial market. You also have total control over the harvest, selecting only the most perfect buds for your design work.
Stop wasting the banana peels and start using them to help boost your garden’s health and nutrients.
Cottage gardens are intentionally casual. Go big on color, but light on labor with this classic, informal garden style.
March is the start of spring cleanups and gearing up for the garden year, so it is often the busiest time of the gardening year. While it is true, that if you put the garden to bed just right in the fall, spring chores are less, it is also true that a landscaper’s work is [...]Read More...
For the last 5-10 years gardening with raised beds has seemingly been the most popular method of backyard gardening. It has been purported to solve…
Read this great list of the easiest vegetables for beginner gardeners. Beginners have more fun gardening when they grow plants successfully.
Many of us set out to grow vegetables with visions of gathering ruby red tomatoes and plump capsicums by the basketful and the choicest cucumbers and crunchy carrots going straight from the garden into the
Cottage gardens are intentionally casual. Go big on color, but light on labor with this classic, informal garden style.
Learn 6 great ways to train and support tomatoes including cages, trellises, string, the Florida Weave, lower and lean system, and more.
Save money, save time, save hard work and improve enjoyment with these homestead hacks for the garden, kitchen, home and more.
20 tips I use to keep my garden in great shape. Vegetable gardens should be two things: productive and beautiful. These tips will help you achieve both.
Plant these veggies once and you can pluck, snip and tear nutrient rich food off all season while your veggies grow back even stronger.
Follow our companion planting chart and plans in your vegetable garden to attract pollinators, increase yields, natural pest control and more.
For garden designer Alison Jenkins, our green spaces should be beautiful, fruitful and sustainable, and her Somerset smallholding is the perfect example, with abundant beds of vegetables, herbs and edible flowers.
