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Application To Build and Track Your Garden

Bryer, member | March 16th, 2010

A friend of mine and I are building an iPhone application to help plan and track your vegetable/herb gardens. The idea is you can create garden grids of variable size, fill in the grid with...

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"Homegrown: A 21st Century Family Farm"

JadaE, member | March 14th, 2010

I had to share this video with my gardening buddies...You probably already know of the Dervaes family, who has converted their 1/10th acre yard into a real family farm. They grow 6000 lbs...

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Why does mushroom compost work so well in the Spring beds

flowergardengirl, member | March 1st, 2010

Roots need air, spaces for their roots to grow, and moisture, and nutrients to be able to meet the needs of a growing healthy plant. Mushroom compost aids these needs along in a very clever...

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Garden World Report: "A Retiree Designs the Smiley Children's Garden in Ohio!"

ShirleyBovshow, member | February 22nd, 2010

Some people do their best work during their "career years." Not so with Ohio Master Gardener, Louise Hartwig. An avid gardener, Louise Hartwig set off to accomplish her best work as a gardener during...

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Video: Building a Community Garden

JMTaylor, member | February 8th, 2010

Watch the construction of the Antonio Community Garden in Camarillo, California, from bare lot to happy gardeners. The Antonio Garden is Camarillo's first community garden.

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Plant Obsessions: Hydrangea Cultivars on Garden World Report!

ShirleyBovshow, member | January 29th, 20101 comment

Anna, known on the web as the "Flower Garden Girl" reveals the object of her garden obsession- hydrangea cultivars! Enjoy Anna's garden tour as seen on the Garden World Report show. What a collector...

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How to Prevent Hornworms from Devastating Your Tomato Plants

Greener_Designs, member | January 18th, 20101 comment

Tomato hornworms are the larvae of a large sphinx moth that is about the size of a hummingbird. In spring the moth lays eggs on the underside of tomato leaves, and the hornworm is quite small...

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Composting in Winter

gardentotable, member | January 14th, 20101 comment

My compost pile is far from my house. Besides, it's busy working, getting itself ready to use next spring. So rather than add to it all winter, or worse, not compost at all (impossible!), I use...

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Growing a Row for Foodbanks and Community Kitchens

nancynursez637, member | January 8th, 20102 comments

I first learned of the national Grow A Row program after a year of growing and sharing excess vegetables with the food bank. I had always gardened and often had way more produce than I could...

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Does Your House Plant MOVE When You Tickle It?

Plantastic, member | January 6th, 2010

This is a fun short video of a real plant that MOVES when you Tickle It. Yes-It's called the TickleMe Plant. The leaves instantly close like magic when you Tickle It! Even the branches slowly fall...

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New at Gardening - Knowledge is a better garden

yankeefan61, member | December 13th, 20091 comment

I figured since the economy has been tanking for the past couple of years that I would try and cut corners every way possible. So I did. I got a pair of scissors out one sunday morning and...

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Growing Shiitake Mushrooms

Catskill Deb, member | November 18th, 2009

My husband and I grow shiitake mushrooms at home, using logs cut from trees on our land. This fall, we held a 2-day shiitake mushroom workshop at our place in New York's Catskill Mountains.

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Your "End of the Year" Garden Checklist

Greg Holdsworth, contributor | November 4th, 2009

As the nights are finally getting cool down here, I am reminded of those end of the season duties we green thumbs all have to keep up with. Even if you aren't "turning in the gloves" and can grow...

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Lovely Lemon Balm

TheresaLoe, member | November 3rd, 2009

Have you ever grown a plant for so long that you started to assume everyone already knew about it? That happened to me the other day when someone visited my garden and asked, "What is this lovely...

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Snow in my Garden

AlyBlu, member | October 31st, 2009

Snow came early and hit hard here in Colorado. Many chores did not get finished before this storm arrived. My garden is buried under two feet of wet, heavy snow. As I sit...

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Invite vegetables and fruits into the landscape

GardenGates, member | October 25th, 2009

What is a vegetable? The Merriam Webster dictionary defines ‘vegetable’ as: “a usually herbaceous plant (as the cabbage, bean, or...

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Benefits of an Urban Herb Garden

CityPastures, member | October 24th, 20091 comment

Our Herb Garden here at City Pastures on Staten Island, New York has provided us with many tasty and fragrant herbs this year. We planted the herb garden which includes sage, parsley, several...

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Re-Creting! A great way to recycle old concrete

jadang, member | October 23rd, 2009

Is your sidewalk so bad you want to walk in the street? Does your patio look like a gravel pit? Those were mine with the 1929 bungalow I purchased in 2006. I fell in love with the space...

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Extending the Growing Season

compostlvr, member | October 20th, 2009

Now that we are in autumn, think about ways to keep your vegetable plants alive and productive. Here are some suggestions.

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A child's take on the vegetable garden

OakhurstGardener, member | October 19th, 2009

Article published in the 2009 spring edition of Georgia Organics' newsletter Its amazing what you learn when you ask your kids what vegetables and fruits they like to eat directly from the...

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