Invasive plants can be a serious problem! They grow very quickly, are usually not native to the area and have been either purposely or accidentally introduced, and they can take over your garden and do some serious damage to your other plants. These plants will suck-up the nutrients, water, and sun needed by your other [...]
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One of the biggest mistakes any gardener can make is watering too much. It’s a tricky art, and there are so many factors involved–what type of plants your watering, how hot it is in your area, how much sunlight your plants are receiving, etc. Even something as simple as what time of day you’re watering [...] My previous blog, interviewing Bonnie regarding her raised bed gardens, has received so much positive feedback that I asked Bonnie if she’d be interested in writing a guest blog. She was more than happy to, and below you will find a little more information about just went through her mind when she was deciding which [...] A short while ago I did a blog on raised bed gardening. One of my readers (who happens to also be a friend) read the blog and told me I just HAD to talk to her mother-in-law! After making our connections, I learned that Bonnie (said gardener) has an amazing raised bed garden. After seeing [...] Gardening with raised beds has been on the increase in the last decade or so–and there are reasons for it! Following are just a few of them: 1. Raised beds give the gardener the ability to control the soil they’re growing in. It used to be that if you lived in an area where [...] I happened upon this article, and just thought it was such a cool and innovative idea, I wanted to share it with my readers! Many times we’re faced with conditions that don’t really allow us to grow the way we’d like to–whether it be not enough sun, too many pests (including animals), lack of space, [...] Community gardening is beginning to gain a lot of traction lately–especially in urban areas where there is not a lot of space for people to have their own gardens. By coming together as a group to garden, people are learning to work together by sharing the workload associated with a garden, swapping ideas and information, [...] How important is soil to your plant? Let’s look at an analogy we can all understand: All of us eat meals, right? We all need food to survive. However, exactly WHAT we eat directly effects how healthy we are. If our meal consists of empty calories and has no vitamins, minerals [...] Born and raised in Northeast Ohio, I will always hold a special spot in my heart for the Cleveland area. So when I happened upon this article about plans to farm inside the Galleria Mall, I was extremely intrigued and somewhat proud! You go, Cleveland! Way to be innovative! With the current state of our economy, [...] One of the most intriguing things I’ve found on the Internet lately has definitely been The WindowFarms Project. The project was started by New York artists, Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray, through a residency at Eyebeam Art and Technology Center. It was sponsored by Riley and Bray’s interactive design firm, Submersible Design. The women originally set-out [...] |
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