If there is one thing you can do this year to power your vegetable plants, hanging baskets, containers and flowerbeds to their best year ever – it’s to use worm castings. When it comes to growing strong, healthy plants, quite simply, worm castings are one of the best natural fertilizers around. The tiny, soil-like granules …

Need a few simple tips and tricks that can stop slugs fast – and keep your vegetable and flower beds safe from their damage this year? Slugs cause serious damage to vegetable plants, annuals and perennial flowers. In the blink of an eye, they can destroy hostas in your flowerbeds – or chew hole after …

Looking for the best way to safely use chicken manure to recharge and power your garden soil and plants? With more and more gardeners raising a few backyard chickens – or having close neighbors doing so – the availability of chicken manure is certainly soaring. And can that manure ever help to revitalize and rejuvenate …

One of the best ways to make sure your cucumber plants stay healthy and productive all summer is to get them off to fast start – right from the beginning! Cucumber plants are notorious for struggling early in the growing season. Cold soil, cool weather and a lot of spring rains can often have cucumber …

One of the best ways to get your tomatoes off to a great start – and help them grow bigger, better, and more productive than ever is by planting them with wood ashes. And is it ever easy to do! As it turns out, wood ashes can be extremely beneficial all over the vegetable garden. …

Did you know that one of the best ways to help defend your garden from a long list of insects and pests that attack your plants is by simply attracting chickadees to hang out in it? Not only are chickadees one of the friendliest and most social of all backyard bird species, they also happen …

Looking to dig up and split your overgrown hostas in your flowerbeds this spring? Hostas are one perennial that benefits from being divided on a regular basis. It helps this leafy perennial stay strong and vibrant, all while giving you the opportunity to multiply your plants without spending a single cent. And – as it …

Wondering what to do with the lavender plants in your flowerbeds, garden or landscape this spring – and whether or not you should prune them before or after they come out – or even at all? As it turns out, pruning lavender in the spring is one of the best things you can do. Not …

One of the best ways to keep your fruit trees healthy and productive is to fertilize them each and every year. But with that said – when and how you apply that fertilizer can play a huge role in just how well your fruit trees will perform! Just like vegetable plants, annuals and perennial flowers, …

If you are looking for an eye catching plant to fill your containers this year with big color and interest, then you need to be growing coleus!  Not only can coleus fill your pots with long lasting beauty – it also happens to be incredibly resistant to pests – including deer and rabbits. Adding to …