Category: Gardening techniques

Beginning gardeners often make the perfectly reasonable mistake of using garden soil for starting seeds indoors. However this doesn’t usually work very well because indoor growing conditions are quite different … Read More

This is the best known, most thorough and effective way to prepare beds and appeals to the methodical kind of person, someone who likes order and science (and is also … Read More

If your soil is very fertile you won’t usually have to even think about additional fertilization of the growing crop. However there are situations when growing crops will benefit from … Read More

The modern world seems so safe and secure that it’s hard to imagine a situation where your life might depend on your ability to feed yourself from your garden. Much … Read More

A mulch is a layer of material (usually organic, but not always) that is used to cover the soil. Mulching is natures way of gardening (it imitates the leaf fall … Read More

I grow a wide variety of crops (often several varieties of each one) every year, which means that I end up with a lot of half empty seed packets at … Read More

Seeds may be as small as a grain of dust, or as big as a football, but all contain the same parts. The most important of these is the embryo, … Read More

Advantages of row gardens Row gardens were the normal way to grow vegetables for generations of American gardeners, but have fallen out of favor in recent years, to be replaced … Read More

Composting is a process whereby complex organic plant and animal matter is broken down into simpler forms. The artificially warm and humid environment of the heap gives you a way … Read More