17 Things I Learned in 2022
How to Grow Water Garden Plants Without Soil Have you ever wondered how people grow plants without having any roots or soil attached? Well, its actually quite simple and only…
No Till Trials
Add Zest to Your Cuisine With a Perennial Herb Garden Unsure which herbs to grow in a perennial herb garden? Confused by the range of plants and their botanical names?…
392 Potato Plants, 181 Grow Bags, 7 More Observations – Part 6 of the Potato Grow Bag Trials
Protect Your Garden Before Winter and Have a Glorious Burst of Flowers in Spring For some people, the coming of winter means putting your gardening paraphernalia away until spring. As…
Growing Potatoes in Carbon – Part 5 of the Potato Grow Bag Trials
Early Summer Naturalized Bulbs Both English Bluebells and camasses will naturalize where the conditions suit them, but bluebells prefer a cooler, shadier site, whereas camasses prefer a sunnier location. Both…
Big Carrot Reveal
Planning a Garden From Scratch Whether you are in the town or country, before planning a garden from scratch you may need to apply for planning consents before you make…
Front-Loading Fertility
Options You Have to Keep the Deer Away From Your Garden You have 5 basic options to keep the deer away from your plants and your garden. The options are…
Amending Soil to Grow Potatoes – Part 4 of the Potato Grow Bag Trials
How to Build a Homemade Hydroponics System Using hydroponics systems will allow your plants to grow about 50% faster than they would in regular soil. Hydroponics also yields better harvests…
Selecting Another Squash
Easy to Grow Herb Garden Seeds If you want to start your own herb garden, it’s important for you to remember that not all herbs grow well from seed. I’ve…
Can Potatoes Grow in Almost Anything? – Part 3 of the Potato Grow Bag Trials
Winter in Your Garden As fall inevitably turns into winter, I start thinking about hardiness. It turns out that, for most plants, survival is strongly related to dormancy-the plant equivalent…