Planting Trees In Pots – Don’t Make The Mistakes I Did
Planting trees in pots is easy once you know how to do it. But should you leave the pot on? The garden center may tell you to leave the fiber pot on when you plant. They may tell you to…
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Using Bone Meal For Plants? Risky – Use This Instead
What you use instead of bone meal for plants depends on how much effort you want to put into this, but the cost isn’t much and neither is the time. There are 3 products I generally use when planting in…
Using Bone Meal For Plants? Here Are The Risks
Using bone meal for plants has been passed down for generations. It’s made from ground up animal bones and comes in a granular or powder form. When I did a lot of landscaping as a teenager and in my early…
Drip Water Irrigation – Is It Appropriate For Your Garden?
A sprinkler is usually much better than drip water irrigation I’ve talked about the problems of drip water irrigation before and today I’ll talk about what you should use instead. Why Does Everyone Say to Use Drip Water Irrigation? It…
Keep Dogs Out Of Flower Beds – 4 Sustainable Methods
Heather, Blue and I at our wedding, August 7th, 2010 It’s a common problem for gardeners with pets – how to keep dogs out of flower beds. And deer, and cats, and rabbits and moles and voles and on and…
Lawn Top Dressing – How To Keep The Lawn Unharmed
Lawn top dressing is when you apply a thin layer of material onto the lawn. But lawn dressing is often done with sand and that’s where the problem is. Sand is used because people think it will improve air space,…
Aerating A Lawn With A Lawn Core Aerator? Follow This
Just like lawn dethatching and lawn rolling, I can see why people might think aerating a lawn with a lawn core aerator is necessary on an annual basis. Not only is it often recommended gardening advice, but most lawn care…
Lawn Dethatching And Lawn Rolling – 2 Practices To Stop
Lawn rolling compacts the soil, the opposite of our goals The local lawn care company won’t tell you this, but lawn dethatching and lawn rolling aren’t necessary or even beneficial. Lawn Dethatching Lawn dethatching – also called power raking –…
Organic Gardening Books – The 50 Absolute Best Books
These organic gardening books are those that have had the most profound effect on me, and I have read a lot of gardening books. Most of them just repeat what the last one said, much of which is not great…
Dolomite Lime – How Garden Lime Can Cause Problems
Dolomite lime is a common fertilizer. Many garden writers encourage you to spread it over your garden and lawn, perhaps even annually. Sometimes using dolomite garden lime is warranted, but the truth is it often makes things worse, sometimes just…
Is A pH Test For Soil Totally Useless?
pH Test For Soil I recently showed how doing a pH test for soil might actually be detrimental. You should probably read that article before this one. Today, I will discuss if it is ever useful. The bottom line is…
Soil pH Kits – How Doing A pH Test May Hurt Your Garden
pH paper Soil pH Kits give one of the most misunderstood and misused measurements in the conventional and organic gardening worlds: pH. It’s a fascinating topic and I’m excited to get into it here. If you can get your head…