Recent Posts Tagged With 'beginner garden techniques'

• The Joys of Growing a New Vegetable Garden

  Posted on Monday August 3rd, 2009 at 20:46 in beginner garden techniques, gardening with kids, creating new vegetable garden, growing vegetables in michigan, starting a new garden

  The following article by P.J. Scott is a great read into the pleasures and surprises encountered by one family as they set about learning the how-to’s and what-for’s of backyard vegetable gardening for the very first time: I am literally a “roo...

• Using and Preserving the Garden’s Bounty

  Posted on Thursday July 16th, 2009 at 22:01 in beginner garden techniques, fermented vegetables, preserving garden produce

  This entry is a guest post by Nathalie Lussier who blogs over at the RawFoodsWitch.com. She stops by today to share a few tips for using all of that extra produce that is harvested from your backyard garden this summer: So you’ve slaved all summer ...

• Garden Greetings from the Deep South

  Posted on Wednesday July 8th, 2009 at 22:24 in beginner garden techniques, raised-bed-gardening, gardening in georgia, southern vegetable garden

  Back in May I published a series of emails from a few backyard vegetable gardeners who shared their passions and talents for producing home-grown fresh fruits and veggies. Those gardens were located in Patzcuaro, Mexico, Northern Virginia, Teakettle,...

• More Gardening Tips from Fern Marshall Bradley

  Posted on Thursday May 7th, 2009 at 22:21 in beginner garden techniques, organic-gardening-tips, all-new illustrated guide to gardening, fern marshall bradley

  Yesterday’s entry was an interview with organic gardener Fern Marshall Bradley in which she shared her background in organic gardening, a few of her favorite edibles, and offered tips for improving soils and starting a new garden. Today’s post is...

• Organic Gardening with Fern Marshall Bradley

  Posted on Wednesday May 6th, 2009 at 21:19 in beginner garden techniques, organic-gardening-tips, all-new illustrated guide to gardening, fern marshall bradley

  Today’s post features an interview with Fern Marshall Bradley, co-author of the recently revised All-New Illustrated Guide to Gardening. Fern wrote a previous article here about ways to Save Money by Growing Organically, and is back to offer more o...

• The Scoop on Mulching a Vegetable Garden

  Posted on Monday May 19th, 2008 at 21:27 in beginner garden techniques, lasagna gardening, mulching-the-garden, organic mulches

  A visitor browsing through photos of the garden was curious and inquired into the types of mulch and the various techniques that are employed to mulch my organic raised bed garden. Here’s her mulch question followed by what may come as a surprising...

• Growing Vegetables in a Small Garden Plot

  Posted on Thursday March 20th, 2008 at 20:41 in beginner garden techniques, edible container gardening, gardening in small spaces, planning a vegetable garden

  Allyson from Kennesaw, GA raised a question about the best vegetables for growing in a small garden area: “I am a first time gardener and I don’t know what to plant that will not over load my very limited garden space. After reading your site, I ...

• Window Box Veggies

  Posted on Saturday July 7th, 2007 at 18:56 in beginner garden techniques, edible container gardening, gardening in small spaces, growing vegetables in containers

  So, you think you don’t have a place to grow a vegetable garden. Well how about raising a few tasty organic veggies right on your deck or patio? I’m sure there are plenty of empty containers and pots around the house that would work very nicely t...