Soil Temperature: An Important Garden Metric to Measure
Successful gardening goes beyond simply sowing seeds or planting seedlings, watering, and waiting for the magic to happen. It requires a balance of many factors that all contribute to healthy …
Successful gardening goes beyond simply sowing seeds or planting seedlings, watering, and waiting for the magic to happen. It requires a balance of many factors that all contribute to healthy …
Plant heat tolerance is classified by the American Horticultural Society Heat Zone Map
In 1960, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) devised a map that divided North America into 11 separate hardiness zones based on average minimum winter temperatures. Each zone is …
Nature’s Own Pest Control Recently, a reader mentioned that she had spider mite problems afflicting her plants indoors and out. So that problem sent us into the research on spider …
Metal Hummingbird Feeders Are Lovely, but Potentially Harmful We’ve been using the attractive glass and copper hummingbird feeders, until now. We’ve changed them out just this weekend after discovering an …
Have you ever tried using red plastic mulch for tomatoes? We’re on our third year of using this USDA approved material. We’d love to hear from your experience if you’ve …
We wondered if the solar fountain bird baths work. I mean do they really produce a consistent visible fountain of water flow? So we got one of the cheapest ones …
Season before last we lost a number of garden crops to deer, squirrels, opossums and raccoons. So last year we installed this small electric garden fence kit by Hooyman. It …
Our daughter, Devani, and son-in-law, Ashe, just purchased a small greenhouse kit for outdoors. They had a perfect spot for it on the back of their house, so ordered the …
Indoor Gardening With Grow Lights Because Growers Gotta Grow Gardeners get addicted to having fresh food readily available. For people who love the idea of growing their own food year round, …