A Successful Garden – Soil Preparation

Key ingredients of a good garden bed are oxygen, nutrients, and water. If the soil isn’t right, the plants can not do their best. You must get your thumb brown (digging in the dirt) before you can rightfully claim to have a green thumb.

Hydroponic Gardening – The Right Ways to Start It

What is hydroponic gardening? Have you heard about it? If not, this article will enlighten you with some little but useful information and tips on how you can start one on your yard.

Why Plant Zones Are So Important

We’ve all gone out & purchased seeds to plant in our garden with varying results. Sometimes we get better results than we expected, while other times we barely get results at all. People might wonder why this is; the answer has to do the plant’s zone.

Growing Herbs in Pots and Other Containers

Growing your own herbs in containers or in other confined spaces has several benefits. This informative article reveals which herbs are particularly suited to growing in containers.

Growing a Flower Garden – Steps to Success

Flower gardens can be very rewarding to grow and maintain, and many flowers are relatively low maintenance to grow. Follow general best-practice rules for supplying enough water, preparing a flower bed properly, choosing the right fertilizers, and making soil nutrient rich, and you should be able to grow beautiful, eye-catching flowers year after year.

How to Grow a Vegetable Garden

A vegetable garden can be highly rewarding. Start your garden off right by choosing the right location, planning carefully; soaking some seeds and starting others indoors, and you should have a strong, productive garden that will bring you delicious vegetables throughout the growing season.

How to Design Your Organic Garden

It is not necessary to do so. Your garden will flourish when you stick with organic and natural methods of growing. If you starting you first garden or simply adding another bed to an existing garden, there are a few things that you can do that will not only reduce the work that you do but will help create the conditions that will enable the plants you select to flourish.

Pickling Olives – How to Pickle Your Own Olives

There is something personal and even secretive about pickling olives. Italians, Greeks, Spanish, Turkish and Lebanese along with many other nationalities have been pickling olives for hundreds of centuries, turning this simple but ancient fruit into a worldwide gourmet delight. Preparation methods and recipes have been handed down from generation to generation where recipes for some of the best tasting pickled olives in the world remain a closely guarded secret among families.

8 Gardening Blunders and the Ways to Fix Them

We often see fashion blunders on TV. We may even hear ourselves giving opinions about them. But do you actually realize that blunders can even happen right in your front yard? Whether you think that your garden looks good or not, it really doesn’t matter. If everything doesn’t work, your whole garden will not work.

How to Keep Pets Out of Your Garden

We all love our pets-but we don’t love them so much in the garden. Here are a few suggestions for ways to keep cats and dogs safely out of your garden.

Tractor Tillers

Among some of the other features included with the Standard Tractor Rotary Tiller are an adjustable rear shield – to help the tines work more thoroughly through the soil beds, adjustable skid shoes that can be adjusted in four settings for terrain depth, and curved tine tips that are fashioned from durable steel for maximum tiller performance. The heavy-duty models also feature a gear drive with high-speed tines for making the perfect till in one passing. These heavy-duty tillers can be supported on the I and II category, 3-point hitches.

How to Plant and Maintain a Green Lawn

You don’t need professional lawn care to get your lawn beautiful and green. Here are a few tips to establish and maintain a healthy lawn-at all times of the year. Choose a mix of seeds.

PVC Greenhouses Are a Snap to Build

Perhaps the easiest greenhouse to construct requires the fewest parts and the least amount of construction experience. When looking for an easy solution for your greenhouse desires, your best bet is to use the PVC greenhouse.

How to Harden Plug Plants

One of the easiest and best ways to start your home garden is with plug plants. Plug plants give you the best chance of successfully planting from seed, and can greatly increase your likelihood of a successful home garden.