How Valuable Is Your Dirt?

Most of my vegetable garden space is devoted to practical pursuits—enough tomato plants to ensure a winter’s supply of canned tomatoes, spaghetti sauce, and salsa; green beans by the freezer bag full; and a variety [ … ]

If you have taken the step to start a compost pile for your garden, it is time to take one more step and consider vermicomposting, or composting with worms. Unlike a traditional compost pile, vermicomposting [ … ]

Try these herbs in your herb garden. You will have herbs for beauty, flavoring and medicine. Catnip: This member of the mint family is fun for kitties and good medicine for calming colicky babies. It [ … ]