When and Where to Use Liquid Organic Fertilizer

When and Where to Use Liquid Organic Fertilizer

When it comes to fertilizing your garden, have you considered liquid organic fertilizers? These are growing in popularity due to their ease of use and low risk of harm to plants. And you can even make your own! Here’s the dig on this category of fertilizers, and when to add them to your garden.

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Five Ways to Use Your Blueberry Harvest

Five Ways to Use Your Blueberry Harvest

Blueberries are wonderful when they're fresh-picked. But that's not the only way to eat a blueberry! Here's how to use your harvest...

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How to Create a Beautiful Butterfly Garden

How to Create a Beautiful Butterfly Garden

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Improving Your Soil with Organic Matter

Improving Your Soil with Organic Matter

Any gardener will tell you: most flowering plants perform best in soils high in organic matter. Enriched with organic materials, soil becomes loose and easy to dig and plant. Adding compost is one of the easiest ways to add organic matter to your soil, and you will see the results almost immediately. This is how you create compost ...

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Spring Designs: Create Your Perfect Decorative Garden

Spring Designs: Create Your Perfect Decorative Garden

Spring is all about color, and all about growing, living things. Greet spring with a gorgeous decorative garden that's all your own. With a good plan, your own tastes and a healthy sprinkling of creativity, you can grow your most gorgeous spring garden ever. Read the full article on how to get started.

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Your Essential Vermicomposting Guide

Your Essential Vermicomposting Guide

Vermicomposting (literally, using worms to speed up the composting process and make it more complete) is an easy, fun and interesting way to get things cookin' on your compost pile. Before you know it, you'll have rich, nutrient-rich compost for mulch, fertilizer and garden soil. Want to learn more?

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Your Spring Gardening Checklist

Your Spring Gardening Checklist

Spring is just around the corner.No, really. It is. It may feel like the middle of winter, but before you know it, you’ll wake up to that first sunny day…and realize gardening season caught up with you. This year, be ready for the change of seasons with these 7 super-easy, low-cost spring gardening steps!

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5 Best All Natural Pesticides

5 Best All Natural Pesticides

For one thing, not all “natural” forms of pest control are non-toxic, particularly to other animals such as favorite pets. For another, some bugs are beneficial but might be wiped out along with the “bad guys.” On the opposite side of the coin, a too-gentle method won't really do anything at all. What's an organic gardener to do? Read to find out!

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“Organic” or Not? Your One Easiest Tip to Know For Sure

“Organic” or Not? Your One Easiest Tip to Know For Sure

Organic gardening. What IS it? Organic has different meanings to different gardeners…and even has varying interpretations depending upon the actual product, the processing, the country of origin and more. So how DO you know you’re really organic gardening? Read the full article to find out more!

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5 Early Starters to Have in Your Decorative Garden

5 Early Starters to Have in Your Decorative Garden

Today, I live in a locale that receives sun, warmth and plant growth-friendly condition. I used to live in Zone 5. And while that meant amazing, beautiful seasons, it also meant waiting like forever for flowers to poke through winter’s chill. But there were a few exceptions. Read the full article to learn more!

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5 GREAT Head-Start Landscape Ideas for Spring

5 GREAT Head-Start Landscape Ideas for Spring

In a colder climate, it’s hard to wait for spring. Winter, though often beautiful can seem to drag on and on, with nary a green shoot in sight. But spring always does come. Are you ready? This year you will be – with these five easy, awesome head-start ideas. Click to reach more!

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Gardening Boosts Cancer Survivors' Self-Worth, Study Says

Gardening Boosts Cancer Survivors' Self-Worth, Study Says

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Prepping Your Lawn for Spring: The Organic Edition

Prepping Your Lawn for Spring: The Organic Edition

Spring lawn prep is easy. Clear things out a bit and put down some fertilizer and a great weed-killing mix. Except if you’re an organic gardener. If you are, what do you do? What fertilizer should you use, and if it’s a natural preparation, is its application different from commercial grade soils? And what about those weeds? Read the full article to find out more!

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Growing Vegetables on a Trellis

Growing Vegetables on a Trellis

Looking to save space in your garden? Consider trellis gardening! A trellis works for virtually any smaller space. Trellises are eye-catching, too, bringing nature and springtime into your space, no matter how large or how small. Want to read more?

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Terrace Gardening Pitfalls (and How to Avoid Them)

Terrace Gardening Pitfalls (and How to Avoid Them)

When I lived in an apartment (more than once, actually), my green thumb didn’t quiet down just because I was short on space and absent of an accessible yard. Nor did my desire to continue to eat food I knew was organically grown simply by virtue of the fact that I’d grown it myself. That’s when I first investigated terrace gardening. View more!

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6 Garden Tools You NEED in Your Shed

6 Garden Tools You NEED in Your Shed

Spring is coming. Is your shed ready? Here's the scoop on what you need to make Spring 2018 really bloom. Click to read more! 

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What to Feed Winter Birds

What to Feed Winter Birds

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Winter in the Garden: 10 Hauntingly Beautiful Pics

Winter in the Garden: 10 Hauntingly Beautiful Pics

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Winter-Prep Your Garden 5 Easy Ways

Winter-Prep Your Garden 5 Easy Ways

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The BEST Vegetables to Plant For Fall

The BEST Vegetables to Plant For Fall

Ready or not, beautiful fall is right around the corner - along with all the gorgeous colors, lovely crackling and baking smells and of course, delicious fall veggies.

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Gardening May Help Girls Achieve Self-Discipline, Study Says

Gardening May Help Girls Achieve Self-Discipline, Study Says

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10 Great Patio Planters

10 Great Patio Planters

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Mother's Day, Grandmas, and Gardening

Mother's Day, Grandmas, and Gardening

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The Best Plants to Grow for Tea

The Best Plants to Grow for Tea

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