I have two large planters in my patio garden that have drainage holes in the bottom of the pot. I grow vegetables in them but they they nee...

I’m attempting to grow tomatoes in this year’s garden. I say attempt because I haven’t had much luck in the way of getting a plant to g...

If you garden, one of the best zero waste ways to deal with food scraps is to compost them.  So what do you do when everything breaks down i...

Last weekend was a long holiday weekend here in the US and my husband and I spent a chunk of it digging in the dirt. We want to add more col...

I have an annoying group of weeds that grow in the space between my garage door and driveway. I don’t want to use commercial weed killer bec...

When someone asks why we started composting, my husband and I say it’s because we had to because all we had for garden was clay and zero top...

Basil is one of my favorite herbs to grow in my self watering container garden .  It is affordable (especially if you grow basil from seeds ...

When you think of doing home improvement projects to add value to your home, most people immediately think of the big, long, and difficult D...

When we bought our condo, the builder planted spirea bushes in front of all of the houses in the neighborhood. Those pretty pink flowers wer...

Every evening as part of my post dinner cleanup,  I try to dump our kitchen compost collector into the big tumbling compost bin outside to k...

Japanese beetle grubs decimated our “easy to care for landscaping” shortly after we bought our condo because our builder planted the entire...

The natural predictors that keep Japanese Beetles from ruining plants in their native Japan do not exist here in the United States. That’s w...