You don’t have to use chemicals to have a beautiful lawn. In fact, your lawn will be much healthier if you ban the use of chemicals.

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You can still get a great garden even if you don’t have a lot of dirt. Learn how container gardening can give you a garden in unusual places.

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If you are dieting, don’t pass up the carambola fruit. A cup of raw carambola contains just 43 calories and about 10 grams carbohydrate. With 29 mg vitamin C and 207 mg potassium, it can definitely be included on your “good for you” list of fruits.

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A basic organic fertilizer blend doesn’t fit all plants. When you blend your own fertilizers for specific purposes, (such has high nitrogen blends for leafy greens or high potassium blends for root crops), you get better results.

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Many of you are looking out the window at a landscape that is full of Autumn color at the moment… and thinking of the time not too far down the road when the color will be gone and the trees bare. That may seem depressing to you, but it shouldn’t be.

Remember that the fallen leaves provide valuable organic compost and humus for our plants, as well as an organic mulch that helps prevent the heaving that can be associated with repeated freezing and thawing while adding nutrients to our soil.

Remember also that you need to remove the heavy leaf cover from your lawn if you expect the grass to survive. Those leaves are extremely valuable - as organic compost or mulch, but they can also choke the life out of the plants below them if they are piled too thick.

Choose a dry Indian Summer day and run your lawn mower over the leaves, if you have a catcher installed. Then empty that catcher’s precious cargo of chopped leaves and grass clippings into your compost bin or pile and be prepared to harvest your “black gold” next spring. You’ll be glad you did.

Here in SW Florida, we don’t have “soil”. We have sand. Not a speck of clay and very little organic matter in this stuff and yet we try to grow a lawn, assorted flowers and landscape plants and even a vegetable garden. Of course, we can actually manage to do all that… if we throw […]

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Water should seep from the drain holes in the pot and the plant should feel “heavier” after watering. Roots around the edge of the pot are a sure sign of being pot bound.

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This article by Mary Hanna is meant to give you some great ideas on how to use Container Gardening to enhance you House and Garden. Container Gardening can be fun and rewarding to all gardeners even in winter.

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Gardens come in different varieties like the plants you find in them. There are several gardening tips that can be used for all type of gardens.

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After several months’ work and a lot of struggling with an assortment of problems, our Gardening Tips blog is back on-line.

We had an intruder on our site who somehow managed to publish his own material in place of our gardening articles. Not only was it not our work or gardening related, it was in a totally foreign language. One of those that didn’t even use the same alphabet as ours.

Oh well. He’s gone now and we’ve tightened up our security measures. The powers that be told us that we weren’t “hacked”… we just had our main page over-written. Hah! Same difference if you ask me.

Anyway, we now have a much stronger password and a lot of other changes in place. Now we can get back to the things that are important to all of us… gardening.