How to Start Your Summer Garden Indoors
We all know what a fresh garden salad with sweet tomatoes, juicy peppers, scrumptious greens tastes like. What makes these delicious veggies taste even better is when you’ve grown them with your own...
View ArticleSpring Cleaning Outdoors? Getting your Garden Ready to Grow
Spring is well on its way and so it’s time to get the yard and gardens ready for new, green growth. The lawn will need mowing, the leaves will need raking and flower beds will need tending, so its...
View ArticleMake this Egg Shell Garden for Easter
I’m willing to wager two organic dark chocolate Easter bunnies that most of you are going to use many eggs over Easter weekend. Instead of tossing all your egg shells in the compost (which is a...
View ArticleJump Into Spring with 8 Fun Springtime Activities
As the temperature perks up and the warm glow of the evening light lasts longer every night, the arrival of the spring season is an inspiration to get up, go out and start moving. Shake off the winter...
View ArticleA Garden Grows Down? Behold: the Hanging Basket
Are you a crafty gardener? Working in small spaces, repurposing old anything into cute and functional planters? Perhaps you’re growing indoors and outdoors, and that little space in between. You’ve...
View ArticleLaura’s Favs: Community Garden Photos (May 17, 2013)
Happy Friday, everyone! We recently started a virtual community garden on Pinterest and today we wanted to share a few of our favorite pins! Want to join in on the fun? You can sign up for our virtual...
View ArticleOutdoor Oasis: How to Make a Zen Garden
We all need a retreat to escape to every once in a while. For those of us who can’t take off on a vacation very often, creating a refuge in your backyard can be its own kind of paradise. Consider...
View ArticleVerdant Wonderland: Dubai’s Miracle Garden
Have you ever wished you could walk through the Hedge Maze described in Alice of Wonderland? Well, the team behind the Miracle Garden in Dubai, United Arab Emirates has brought that very experience to...
View ArticleLaura’s Favs: Community Garden Photos (May 24, 2013)
Happy Friday, everyone! We recently started a virtual community garden on Pinterest and today we wanted to share a few of our favorite pins! Want to join in on the fun? You can sign up for our virtual...
View ArticleOrganic Bugbusters: Natural Repellents and Tips for your Garden Insect Problems
The Animalia kingdom’s littlest members, insects, are responsible for aspects of pollination as well as acting as cooperative defenders and decomposers for your yummy organic crops. But within the...
View ArticleBPA In Your Garden? Maybe, If You Use These Gardening Products
You work hard to keep harmful pesticides and chemicals out of your organic garden. From preparing your garden with organic soil to choosing heirloom seeds to digging in organic fertilizer, your green...
View Article5 Flowers for 1 Fragrant Garden
Plant a garden that makes your senses (mainly the olfactory one) come to life! By choosing exceptionally aromatic flowers, you can create a scented garden that sparks up your sense of smell every time...
View ArticleGrow It Vertical! DIY Wood Pallet Garden
If your gardening spot lacks space, then grow vertical! Want a cheap way to do it? Reclaim a wooden pallet and turn it into your new garden. A wooden pallet can hold oodles of flowers, herbs, and...
View Article5 Must-Read Sustainable Summer Cookbooks
Bust out the grill, snip the garden herbs, and roll up your sleeves, because it’s time for another cookbook review roundup! This collection includes a few of my personal fave cookbooks already on...
View ArticleOh My, Why Has My Basil Plant Turned Bitter?
You’ve worked hard to keep your basil plant growin’. Maybe you even started it from seed. That aromatic little herb has already yielded some pretty tasty leaves, so you expect no different from your...
View ArticleGrow a Miniature Succulent Garden in a Light Bulb Terrarium
Do you still have some incandescent light bulbs hanging around? Once they burn out, give them new life (or is it light?) by repurposing them into do-it-yourself terrariums. Pretty miniature light bulb...
View Article5 Yucky Things You Didn’t Know You Could Compost
Compost isn’t meant to look pretty. Well, maybe once it degrades into a heap of rich, dark soil, but it takes a while to get to that point. Before that mound of soil takes shape it’s all limp onion...
View ArticleHow to Organize a Messy Garden Shed
Stop digging around for supplies in that messy shed and save that energy for your garden! A streamlined shed will make gardening so much easier. Whether you’re winding down for the season or prepping...
View Article8 Vegetables to Grow in Fall Container Gardens
Growing vegetables in container gardens in the fall and winter can keep your kitchen thriving through the months when your local farmers markets and grocery stores are stocking wimpy, high-priced...
View Article3 Ways to Get Your Apartment Garden Ready for Spring
It’s easy to forget that spring doesn’t officially start until the middle of March. The second that the month begins, though, it seems like the new season has already begun! We may still have a little...
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