Food
How To Create The Best Potting Soil
Many beginning gardeners make the mistake of placing too little emphasis on soil. Your plants grow in the soil, stretch their roots through it, and take up nutrients and water from it. The quality, quantity, [ … ]
Survival Gardening for Pandemics
8 Garden Flowers That Chase Away Vegetable-Eating Bugs
It’s no secret that I love to spend time planning, planting, tending to and harvesting from my vegetable garden. My husband, on the other hand, would rather see colorful flowers adorning our backyard than something [ … ]
Food
Cover Crops: Green Gold For The Garden
I’m always looking for ways to improve the sandy, dry soil in my Colorado garden. I’ve hauled countless loads of manure from a nearby alpaca farm, and I keep a compost heap humming at the [ … ]