The Best Home Garden

Planning to go “organic”? That is very good, but do you know how exactly to go about creating an organic garden? If yes, just go ahead! But if the answer is a “no”, it is advisable to take the help of organic gardening centers.

Organic gardening centers are many, and the reasons why they are considered the saint places to seek counsel are sketched below–

(1) When the weather is warm enough, organic gardening centers like to function out-of-doors. So you can see the staff putting up stalls outside shops, or even in parking lots with plenty of acquirable space. Of course, they can be found within stores as well!

(2) Can’t find a single one in your neighborhood? First, find someone who is involved with organic gardening and then ask that mortal to direct you to a center nearby.

(3) The local farmers’ market that usually… Read More

It’s time we started showing some respect and gratitude for the underappreciated nightwalker and his boy back-up band, fungi & bacteria. They are the true humble heroes and workhorses who do the necessary dirty work to keep your soil full of nutrients.

Yet, in our home gardens, we’re constantly killing earthworms with synthetic fertilizers. We’re baking them to a crisp with unnatural, high-levels of nitrogen and salts. Worms don’t want to see any neon colored manmade crystals.

Remember, earthworms are garden superstars, but they don’t insist on the center-stage spotlight! They thrive in moisture and dark. All they require is some good old fungi, bacteria, a banana peel or two and yesterday’s sports page to create nature’s saint fertilizer in their castings, for free!

5 Dirt Diva Reasons Why Gardeners Should Love Earthworms (Eisenia foetida)

1. Worms help air and water enter and circulate through… Read More

Most of the time we plant gardens just to look at them. We go to the nursery and find little 6 packs of garden plants and organize them in the garden to grow and bloom in an artistic pattern. This works well, but it is so hard to bring those beauties inside and place them in a vase when they look so nice outside. With a cutting garden you are not trying to create a perfect landscape, rather you want a garden that will work for you and produce copious amounts of cut flowers. You can place your cutting garden in an unused corner of your yard, out of the way, so you do not feel like it
needs to look perfect.

Why are my plants so short?
You will notice that most of those nursery 6 packs produce neat compact plants with stems too short to make massive… Read More