Crop Rotation Explained for the Vegetable Garden
Crop rotation is one of those gardening ideas that sounds simple, yet makes a huge difference once you truly understand it. Many problems in vegetable gardens — recurring pests, declining …
Vegetable Gardening
Organize Your Vegetable Garden for Higher Yields
Many people think gardening is hard because they don’t have enough time, energy, or experience. In reality, most gardens become exhausting because organizing your vegetable garden has never been done …
How Much Should You Plant for a Vegetable Garden
If you want your vegetable garden to really feed you, knowing how much to plant is essential. It’s one of the biggest questions in vegetable gardening—whether you’re growing food in …
What to Sow and Plant in November
November brings a calmer rhythm to the garden. In mild winter climates, it’s not the end of the growing season, but a time to settle cool-weather crops into the soil …
What to Plant in October for a Winter Harvest
Many beginner gardeners believe the gardening season ends in September. They stop planting, put away their tools, and wait for spring. But here’s the truth — in mild climates like …
Take 2: How to recognise good soil
Soil is the basis for gardening. When the soil in your vegetable garden is healthy you will have good results in your garden. Healthy soil What is healthy soil like? …
Start your vegetable garden in only three weeks time.
What could you do to become more self sustainable? Well, start your own vegetable garden. These are not easy times, things are not as they used to be and nobody …
Float Gardening in British Columbia
A guest post written by Margy Lutz. Margy describes her life on a float Cabin Home on Powell Lake in Coastal British Colombia. She has a very special float garden. …
Where to start your vegetable garden, some things to consider.
The first step dealing with when you want to start a vegetable garden is where to start your vegetable garden. Picking the right spot requires a bit of time. In …
How to Analysing the soil from your vegetable garden.
In this blog we will look into how you can find out what type of soil you have and what pH and nutritional value your garden soil has. We will …