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Raised bed gardening has been shown to produce nearly twice as much as conventional vegetable gardens in less space. Raised bed gardening tips and gardening ideas...

Raised wood-framed garden plots offer a number of advantages for gardeners, including protection from animals, custom soil mixture, and an attractive look.

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!

Gardening in raised beds helps ensure the health of organic vegetable crops and offers benefits to gardeners over traditional in ground methods.

Regular potting soil will do for raised beds, but the best raised bed soil will be high in organic matter and have high water-holding capacity.

Raised bed gardening is much less work than tilling a garden and planting rows and has many other benefits to both plants and humans.

A small garden in a kid's pool, or in any large garden planter, is just the right size for a children's vegetable or flower garden.

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...

It's always a comforting sign when air outside begins the warming process and when new life is ready to sprout up from the ground.

Keep an organic vegetable garden using herbs as companion plants. They attract beneficial insects that repel pests from hybridized bedding plants, and supply the kitchen.

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.

Prepare ultimately delectable gourmet dishes with herbs, vegetables and spices harvested from your own gourmet seasoning garden or gourmet kitchen garden.

Same garden space can produce more veg with some planning and intensive planting methods. Grow more vegetables from small garden space or expand using raised bed system.

Soil is made from minerals, water, air and organic matter. The key to great garden soil is increasing the organic matter and the biological activity in the soil.

Once you install or build a raised garden bed you need to fill it with good soil before planting. How much dirt, top soil or compost do you need? What kind is best?

Set up a quick and easy garden with a straw bale, a whiskey barrel, or a 5 gallon bucket.

Create a user-friendly organic victory garden and save money at the grocery store. Raised bed vegetable gardens are great for small areas and are easy to maintain.

Worm composting produces compost rich in nutrients, cuts down on waste in the garbage can, and produces red wiggler worms.

By reaching out to neighbors and organizing community events, we can help protect our environment and each other.

Ways to reduce water use in the garden include mulching, plant selection and water harvesting.

How to build a worm compost bin. Red wiggler worms eat their body weight or more each day, and create rich worm castings for the garden.

Setting up a worm bin is easy enough. This article seeks to answer questions related to composting worm feeding and care after the bin is set up.

When gardeners reclaim materials for use the vegetable garden, they create an opportunity to talk about environmental awareness.

Green roofs are rooftops that are covered with soil and planted with ornamental or vegetable gardens. Most are on commercial real estate, but residential use is growing.

Rock retaining walls look great, add to home equity, and add curb appeal to residential landscaping, but installing one is hard work and may strain the home budget.

The potager garden is more commonly known as a kitchen garden in the United States. Taking it step by step, anyone can create one on his own plot of land.

Which type of composting is best, worm composting or traditional composting? Is there any difference in the compost? Which is easier?

Historic and traditional garden landscapes in New England range from colonial times to modern times. Here is a survey of selected 17th to18th century landscape styles.

Raised planting beds or planters offer many benefits and are easy to build. Learn how to plan and construct your own raised garden bed to enhance your landscape.

Most everyone wants to make the world a better place, but many simply don't know how. Even those only interested in their pocket can effect change. Here are some ideas.

Whether it's for healthy eating or to save money on groceries, starting a vegetable garden doesn't have to be a lot of work.