Crop Rotation for Growing Vegetables The sight of any field, large or small, full of one type of crop ripening in the sun may now be a quintessential part of the countryside, but this mass-production method of cultivating single species has long been known to cause more problems than it solves. For one, large plantation…
Quick Maturing Plants: 5 Fast Growing Vegetables to Try 9 July 2015, written by Benedict Vanheems As summer progresses, gaps will inevitably start to appear in your garden as plants are harvested. It’s a bad idea to leave those gaps as the bare ground will attract weeds and be prone to erosion during summer storms. But…
Green Manures (Cover Crops) How to improve the fertility of your soil is a question that all good gardeners take seriously. Or at least should. One of the most under-used methods of soil improvement is the use of green manures (often called ‘cover crops’ in America), which are essentially plants grown specifically to be…
Flowers for Vegetable Gardens – beyond just good neighbors! Its easy to get carried away with beautiful sights and wholesome colors of most flowers, especially when in full bloom. And one can almost never get blamed for planting too many flowers. Pretty as they may be, each flower in the garden has a purpose….
How to Plant Fruit Trees Growing fruit is one of the most efficient forms of gardening. Once the trees are established you can expect an abundant supply for decades with only a little pruning and mulching to keep them happy. With few exceptions, for most people the cheapest way to start a mini-orchard is to buy…
New Gardens When planning a vegetable garden it’s all too easy to jump in with both feet and try to grow as much as possible in the first year. Many experienced gardeners will tell you that this is just setting yourself up for disappointment as the amount to learn, maintain and weed can quickly become…
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