Not only is it easy to save seeds from your tomato plants this summer – it can also help you grow your best tomato plants ever next year! Saving seeds is certainly one of the best ways to save on your gardening budget. Let’s face it, seeds are only getting more and more expensive with …
When it comes to growing big and flavorful onions in your home garden – planting your onion crop in the fall is the real secret to success! Although you can plant onions quite successfully in the spring, as it turns out, fall planting is actually one of the best and easiest ways to grow larger …
Wondering how to stop your tomatoes from splitting and cracking as they ripen on your plants this summer? For a gardener, it can be all but defeating to see a beautiful crop of developing tomatoes suddenly begin to blister, crack and split. Not only does it make for an unsightly tomato, it also damages the …
Looking to save the seeds from your vegetable plants this year to plant and grow again next year? Saving vegetable seeds from your garden is one of the best ways to save big on your home gardening budget. But did you also know that it is one of the best ways to grow healthier plants …
Looking to create a compost pile this summer that heats up fast and makes great use of all of those vegetable and flower scraps coming from your garden, flowerbeds and kitchen? When it comes to finding an abundance of materials to build a compost pile, it doesn’t get any better than in the middle of …
Looking for a few simple secrets to keep your cucumber plants productive and get more cucumbers than ever this summer? Unfortunately, for many gardeners, keeping their cucumber plants productive can be a challenge. Especially as the long, hot days of summer arrive. All too often at the mid-season point, plants that were once producing loads …
Did you know that you can use all-natural cinnamon to help protect the plants growing in your flowerbeds and garden from pests and disease – and help to build better soil at the same time? It’s true – although cinnamon has long been known to provide a wide array of benefits to humans as an …
When it comes to getting your tomato plants to produce a great big crop of tomatoes – how and when you water your plants in the summer can make a huge difference for your crop! There is little doubt that tomatoes are one of the neediest plants of all in a vegetable garden. Not only …
One of the best ways to get your bell pepper plants to produce an incredible harvest of peppers is to fertilize them on a consistent basis throughout the growing season – but to really maximize your crop – knowing when, what and how to feed them is the real secret to success! Peppers, just like …
Did you know that summer is the perfect time to replant your vegetable garden, raised beds or containers with seeds? So much focus goes into early spring planting that the summer planting season often takes a back seat. But mid-summer is actually one of the best times to start new plants. Not only is easy …