My elderberry flowering white over my left shoulder. It’s pretty tricky to make a list of low maintenance plants when your readers live all around the world. But I wanted to have a go at it anyway because it’s winter…
Note: I’ve now started selling the organic fertilizers and microbial inoculants mentioned in this post. You can read more about that here. You can get the jump on spring by starting plants from seeds. Some plants pretty much need this,…
Are you ready to do some planting yet? Most of us plant between March and May. I’m towards the end of that time frame, but I think today’s a good day to give you some tips anyway. I’m doing some…
For many people, it’s getting to be time to figure out how to plan a landscape design for your organic garden. Your landscape design plans might mean putting in new gardens entirely, or maybe just coming up with a planting…
A garden inoculant is really just anything we use to bring beneficial microbes into our gardens. These microbes are often deficient for various reasons, but if we can get more of them back in there, they: Make nutrients available to…
Yesterday morning, my sister had an interesting encounter with a sniffling boy and his grandmother. It prompted us to put together a short medicinal plants list of 5 plants you may want to consider for your own organic garden. From…
This photosynthesis simple explanation is good for gardeners to understand, just so we know the very basics of how a plant eats and what we can do to help.
In my part of the world, the vegetable garden is winding down for the winter. Actually, I’m always amazed how some of these plants can withstand the cold and continue producing. We’re still harvesting hardy herbs and vegetables from our…
Philodendrons like the one below often have big leaves. That’s probably why Cleve Backster used them in a number of his experiments. Ultimately, he showed that plants can read your mind. Backster was one of the most well-known lie detector…
The 1973 book The Secret Life of Plants by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird shares many anecdotes (some more believable than others) about the fascinating relationship between music and plants. Apparently, the right sounds can produce tremendous improvements in growth,…