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 …
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Heat Zone Map for Plants: Do You Know Yours?
Plant heat tolerance is classified by the American Horticultural Society Heat Zone Map
Understanding USDA Hardiness Zones For Successful Gardening
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 …
Effective Spider Mite Predators to Deploy in the Garden
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 …
Reasons To Avoid Using Metal Hummingbird Feeders – Here’s Why
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 …
Red Plastic Mulch for Tomatoes: Pros and Cons
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 …
Benefits of Solar Fountain Bird Baths, (and Do They Work)?
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 …
Solar & Electric Garden Fence Kit to Protect Your Crops from Critters
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 …
A Small Greenhouse Kit for Outdoors, a Great Size for Beginners
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 …
Best LED Grow Lights and Other Favorites
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, …