Gardening helps improve your child’s immunity, understanding, and intellectual intelligence. It also helps connect your children with nature and make them value a sustainable lifestyle. Gardening is not just a hobby. It is a way to lead a life today. Therefore, no matter how young or old y...
An important key to successful vegetable garden plants is having high quality soil. An ideal vegetable garden soil consists of loamy soil with equal parts sand, silt and clay for quick water drainage, good aeration and organic matter accumulation – something loamy soil provides. Loamy soils can ...
The trick to using any of these ingredients is not to use too much. Each one on its own is potent and high in nutrients. If the soil is too rich, it will be too hot to grow in. If you plan on using many different ingredients for diversity, it is essential to reduce the total am...
Herb Gardening: How To Prepare the Soil, Choose Your Plants, and Care for, Harvest, and Use Your HerbsPoquette, Bonnie L.
Growing buckwheat is a great way to naturally improve the quality of clay soil. Buckwheatgrows especially well in moist, cool climates and cold areas. It’s also a good grain choice if you have poor soil, especially if it’s dense clay, because the roots break up the clay and make it ...
“See if a local community garden or farmers market will take your organic waste for compost,” she says. Lopez echoes this sentiment and says to ask around. “You may have a network of community composters near you and not even know it,” she says. “Check out makesoil.org or share...
With no-dig gardening, what’s good for the soil is good for the plants too. The lighter, fluffier soil drains excess water while retaining a proper level of moisture, promotes good air circulation, and improves the uptake of nutrients by plant roots, all of which lead to fewer plant dise...
Also, working clay soil when it’s too wet can damage soil structure. Ideally, wait several weeks before planting to allow time for the materials to break down.This is also a good time to apply organic fertilizers and adjust soil pH if needed. Add garden lime to make the soil more ...
Hydroponic gardening is a great way for those with limited space to grow fruits, vegetables, herbs and even ornamental plants. While it sounds intense and complicated, hydroponic gardening is a simple concept. And, with so many different types of hydropo
Cut the sod into sections to make it easier to remove. For a longer-term project, it's easier to use the lasagna gardening method: Cover your future garden with five sheets of newspaper; double that amount if your lawn is Bermuda grass or St. Augustine grass. Spread a 3-inch layer ...