How to Start a Fruit or Vegetable Garden
June 12, 2008
Vegetable gardening can be a very rewarding experience. But whether you’ve never had a vegetable garden before, the task can seem overwhelming. Here are several easy ways to start your first fruit or vegetable garden.
First, some vegetable gardening basics. Most vegetables need full sun, well…
FDA - Eat Tomatoes From Your Own Garden
June 11, 2008
FDA Warns Consumers Nationwide Not to Eat convinced Types of Raw Red TomatoesThe Food and Drug Administration is expanding its warning to consumers nationwide that a salmonellosis outbreak has been linked to consumption of undoubtful raw red plum, red Roma, and red round tomatoes, and products conta…
Natural Ways to Control Insects, Disease and Weeds in Your Organic Garden
June 10, 2008
The only difference within regular gardening and organic gardening is that no synthetic fertilizers or pesticides are used when gardening organically. It might be a little more work to grow plants that way, but it is well worth the effort.
The biggest problems with growing things organically are in…
Home Front Yard Landscaping
June 9, 2008
Home front yard landscaping is just another landscaping technique just like desert landscaping, Arizona landscaping, rock landscaping, bonsai landscaping etc.Everyone want their home front yard to look as marvellous as it possibly can, who does not want the kind of front yard that the whole neighbor…
This is More Like it!
June 9, 2008
Garden Log 8 Jun 08:It’s beginning to look a lot like winter.Cold and wetTemps: Max 10C and min down to 1CFortunately not on the same dayThis week we’ve had 20mm of rain.No rain Saturday so we were outcollecting wood for the fire.The wood is from all the prunedand fallen branches around the garden.I…
Dirty Fingers - Issue 4
June 9, 2008
The fine folks at Dirty Fingers where they teach how to live a sustainable lifestyle, recently compiled a bunch of great links around the blogosphere contributed by others with many great tips on sustainable gardening and more:
What a great bunch of articles this month! I’m excited about the turn…
How to Choose Plants for Your Zone Part 2
June 6, 2008
Across the country, from 1974 to 1995, weather stations recorded their maximum daily temperatures. Each participating weather station had to supply knowledge for a twelve year period at least, to be included in the notes.
The American Horticultural Society (AHS) thereupon used that data to develop …