Butternut Squash: Save Space In Your Garden With Trellis!

Your little butternut squash seedling can grow into a 15-foot long vine and produce loads of fruit in just a few months.

Remove Garden Pests and Rot Naturally

There are plenty of products available at garden stores that claim to rid plants of pests or mold and other diseases.

Tomato Growing Special: Q & A

1.Q. Tomato growing is very satisfying especially when you see tomatoes ripen and turn red. But I lose at least half my crop to bird damage

Growing and Eating Edible Flowers

Some home gardeners may struggle with choosing between edible plants or ornamental plants, but as it turns out, there is a fair amount of overlap between the two varieties. Many flowers can be incorporated into recipes or used to seriously spruce up items like drinks and dairy products. Some are even good entirely on their own

Build a Healthy, Organic Breakfast Sandwich

“Healthy” and “breakfast sandwich” tend to be an oxymoron, especially when you review popular fast-food menu items: Burger King Bacon, Egg and Cheese Biscuit: 420 calories, 25 g fat, 185 mg cholesterol, 1,360 mg sodium Sonic Breakfast Toaster Sandwich with Bacon: 532 calories, 32.4 g fat, 323 mg cholesterol, 1,441 mg sodium McDonald’s Egg McMuffin: 300 calories, 12 g fat, 260 mg cholesterol, 820 mg sodium

Gardening When It Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series) [Paperback]

The decline of cheap oil is inspiring increasing numbers of North Americans to achieve some measure of backyard food self-sufficiency. In hard times, the family can be greatly helped by growing a highly productive food garden, requiring little cash outlay or watering. Currently popular intensive vegetable gardening methods are largely inappropriate to this [...]

New Potatoes: The New Delicious Treat!

The earliest or new potatoes of the season are a treat not to be missed. They’re small, round, smooth and delicious

Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long [Paperback]

From Publishers Weekly
From first sentence to last, Coleman’s ( The New Organic Gardener ) book is a delight–an earnest guide written with an impish sense of humor. It will refresh anyone who wants to get the most from a vegetable garden yet doesn’t want to devote too [...]

Roasted Tomato & Zucchini Salad

Organic tomatoes and zucchini are top seasonal produce picks , and they marry as well as Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne (minus the sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll). In the hands of former Top Chef contestant Fabio Viviani , executive chef/owner of L.A

Big Veggie Plants, Small Spaces

Most home gardeners are working with confined spaces, be they tiny dirt plots or a row of pots on a balcony. But limited garden space doesn’t have to mean tiny plants.

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