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Square foot gardening is an intensive gardening technique that utilizes a grid of one-foot squares. Square foot gardening is especially suitable for small spaces.

Creating a beautiful and fruitful garden can be easy by utilizing the gardening techniques of mulch and compost.

Certify your organic garden with the National Wildlife Federation, and join thousands of others who promote sustainable gardening techniques.

Composting recycles your family's wastes reducing landfill, improving the environment and producing without great inputs of time, effort and money the homemade fertiliser

Global Gardening and Square Foot Gardening Foundation work to end world hunger. "Help End World Hunger" reports on this international charity & gives world hunger facts.

Japanese gardening can be a beautiful hobby and a natural art form. Find out how you can begin to enjoy the beauty of a Japanese Garden.

A child's garden teaches more than just gardening skills: your child will learn math, science & more! Gardening for kids can be easy, educational and fun.

These six potting soil recipes, like the John Innes recipe, could be what makes a garden thrive instead of languishing about. Learn to make potting soil instead buying!

This article on Hydroponic Gardening gives an overview of hydroponic gardening: what it is, why people do it, where to buy hydroponic gardening supplies and kits.

Many broadleaf evergreen shrubs and conifers can be reproduced by the home gardener using cuttings of mature stems.

Given the right conditions, a small section of a plant's branch or stem can result in an identical twin of the parent plant.

Maintenance of a desert garden is an important component in developing and keeping a beautiful and viable garden.

Martin Crawford, Director of A.R.T. in Devon, England, acknowledged expert in temperate forest gardens, takes viewers on an inspiring and practical gardening adventure.

Perennial, persistant weeds make clearing a new vegetable garden very hard, frustrating work. This method gives you weed free soil, as well as vegetables, within a year.

A gardening book that highlights garden planning, design, plant selection and special techniques shared by some of the top gardeners in America.

When August rolls around, waterwise gardeners begin to take some action for a bountiful fall harvest.

Horticultural researcher at Rodale Institute Experimental Farm, Sarah Wolfgang Heffner presents a delightful book introducing gardeners to heirloom country gardens.

Elymus repens may be used as an alternative treatment to relieve disorders disorders of the kidneys and urinary tract such as Cystitis and Urethritis.

Colorful flowers, shrubs, water ways and vegetables adorn the Demonstration Garden which covers three acres of Grange Park's 26 acres in south Kennewick, Washington.

All daffodils are deer and garden-pest resistant. Daffodils planted with minor pest-resident bulbs create stunning and hardy spring displays in garden landscapes.

In Raised Bed Gardening Part II, I explain how to easily create a raised garden bed, a raised garden bed frame, and a cold frame. Raised bed gardening can be easy!

Chinese Lizard Tail has many uses, the least of which is a charming water garden plant.

A handful of good soil should hold billions of bacteria, millions of protozoa and other microbes, thousands of tiny arthropods and hundreds of larger organisms.

As gardeners strive to conserve water while still providing beauty, fragrance, and forage for humminbirds and butterflies, Agastache is proving to be a good choice.

Thinking of starting a blog? You'll need a blog topic! Get ideas for blog topics and blog themes for new bloggers who want to earn money blogging on the web!

Butterfly weed and lantana are used in xeriscape gardening to attract bees, butterflies or hummingbirds. These drought tolerant plants are food sources for pollinators.

Cooler temperatures in the fall make it a pleasure to work outdoors. This is a great time to prune, clean-up, and protect against winter damage.

Lawns are the welcome mat to a home. Maintaining healthy green grass is important to the conscientious homeowner.

Use the USDA's Plant Hardiness Zone Map to ensure the plants you choose for your landscape will survive even the most extreme weather conditions.

Fresh Food from Small Spaces, The Square Inch Gardener's Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting and Sprouting written by R. J. Ruppenthal is for vegetable gardeners.

Sandy, clay or loam, it's important to make sure a garden's soil is ready to feed new plants.

Growing tomatoes upside down helps to promote healthy growth and more tomatoes by allowing the nutrients to easily be carried 'down' the plant.

I've added gardening tips that turn a simple article on "How to Plant Tomato" into an article on building better root systems and support systems to increase yield...

A water garden or small pond can be an ideal home for frogs and salamanders. Make sure it is free of pesticides and has plenty of wetland plants and insects.

While it is desirable to minimize pesticide use, sometimes a pesticide is the only way to solve a pest problem.

For sustained good health, plants must experience a period of partial or complete inactivity. This dormant state is necessary for the continued survival of the plant.

Rain Gardening in the South: Ecologically Designed Gardens for Drought, Deluge and Everything in Between is written by Horticulturalists, Helen Kraus and Anne Spafford.

Recycle your household waste into useful items for the organic garden.

Growing vegetables is becoming a popular way to cut down on food costs. By following these tips, gardeners can reduce their planting expenses as well.

Small Space Gardening by Melinda Myers explores the challenges of creating a garden using less space. Read a book review outlining this valuable garden reference.

Assess your yard. Tidy up and fill in with plants native to local climate and soil conditions. Plan to plant a diverse and beautiful environment.

Planted together Narcissus (daffodil) bulbs and specialty (minor) bulbs lead to pest-resistant, perennial and naturalized landscape garden designs.

Drought tolerant native perennials like Stokes' Asters are good for sustainable gardens. Stokesia laevis 'Purple Pixie' is one summer blooming aster for small spaces.

A termite swarm can seem like the end of the world. But it isn't. There are now many professional pest control companies that use borates, orange oil, or IPM methods

Not all shade in your garden is created equal. Before plunking down expensive plants for your shade garden, consider the type of shade first.

The Edible Forest Garden is an Agroforestry garden landscape designed to grow a lot of organic food with minimal work and resilient in the face of climate change.

Growing all the vegetables a family can eat in gardening space previously unseen. Unconventional vegetable gardening techniques are becoming more popular all the time.

Landscape plants are expensive, and gardeners will do most anything to assure their plants survive. Placing and maintaining mulch around plant roots is cheap insurance.

There are steps you can take all year round to ensure that your garden will still provide color and interest during the long, dreary winter months.

Barberry shrubs are exceptional choices for low physical barrier landscape hedges. Described are barberry characteristics, cultivation details and nine selections.