If you’ve already planted your garden but suddenly find yourself with a few unexpected cool nights- here is a tip to help you protect your plants and warm them naturally. This tip isn’t just for spring, you can use it in the fall to help extend your growing season as well!
Gardening ~ Landscaping
Budget101 Gardening and landscaping ideas -affordable frugal landscaping ideas that include pest control, companion planting, lasagna gardening, square foot gardening, as well as container gardening on a budget
Inexpensive control of Scale Insects
In California various types of scale insects infest citrus trees. For several years I tried spraying or using systemic pesticides (and then having to destroy a crop) before I started thinking about the scale bugs habits. Scale insects are flat, ovalbugs that suck sap from the
Design a Children’s Garden
It’s said that gardens grow children and this is particularly true when a child’s first experiences with gardening are fun and successful. Nurturing plants and sharing the bounty are great confidence builders for budding green thumbs. Indulge your child’s curiosity in bugs, worms and sprouting seeds and offer plants that mature quickly with surprising results.
Bargain Mulch tips
Bargain Mulch & Landscaping Tips If you like to mulch, but hate the price of …
Orchard Buttermilk Spray
Spider mite infestation in a home orchard can be devastating. Here’s a very simple old-time recipe to kill spider mites and prevent them from taking over.
Houseplant Horrors- Mealybugs
Houseplants are a wonderful addition to any home, unfortunately, as the seasons change certain pests …
Free Tomato Plants from Cuttings
Starting tomatoes from seed can take six to eight weeks before they’re big enough to transplant, but did you know you can cut down this time to just 10 days by taking a single cutting?
DIY Mosaic Garden Stones
Create your own gorgeous swirly mosaic garden stones with this step by step tutorial!
Starting Seeds in February
There is nothing more exciting for this gardener than seeing the first bits of green as shoots force their way up through the soil. As gardeners in the northern climates know, ya gotta start early. While February is still bringing us an occasional ice storm, this
Companion Planting Guide
Reduce or eradicate the need for chemical pest control completely with companion planting!
Weed Free Gardening
There are a ton of ways to have a weed free garden but this year …
How to Create a Budget Garden
Not everyone can be a landscaping maestro, as not everyone has the right budget for that. Creating a beautiful garden on a budget may seem like an impossible task, but it doesn’t have to be! With the right motivation, budgeting and understanding of your garden, you have a bespoke garden space – at a reasonable budget!
How to Protect Your Lawn During Drought Season
How to Protect Your Lawn During Drought Season
Sweeter Cucumber Tip
Cucumbers grown in the wrong conditions can become bitter or tasteless. Here is a simple …
DIY Automatic Garden Watering System
Gardening isn’t always inexpensive or cheap, in fact, it can be quite a costly endeavor, particularly if all your plants die halfway through the season due to lack of water or because they are choked out by weeds you didn’t have time to pluck. Here’s how we installed our own homemade automatic self- watering & weed free, no maintenance vegetable garden . . .
How to build a faux stone walkway
Landscaping can sometimes seem like a costly overwhelming project. It doesn’t have to be, you …
Thrifty Alternatives to Expensive Gardening Products
The dizzying array of gardening products required to maintain a garden can be overwhelming….
Prevent Bacterial or Fungal Problems on Plants
Bacterial and fungal issues are common on plants, particularly in the Spring and Fall. Here’s a simple, very inexpensive treatment you can apply to protect your plants.
Herb Garden Markers
Create reusable vegetable or herb garden markers using rocks, a bit of scrap fabric! These …
Garden Enhancements- Using what you Have
Bring a bit of natural beauty to the landscaping around your home and property by recycling what nature has
Tomato Virus Protective Spray
If your tomato plants are suddenly wilting it may be due to a tomato virus …
Homemade Compost Tea
To prevent blight and other pathogens from destroying plants many home gardeners have had great success using homemade manure tea. Soak the area around plants and use as a foliage spray.
21 Clever Uses for Coffee Grounds
Once that hot steaming mug of fresh coffee is poured, Most people don’t give their …
Boosting Pepper Production
Last year I harvested literally hundreds of peppers from my little garden. One neighbor, in …
Seedling Saver
Did you know that seedlings often die from bacterial and fungal infections before they have a chance to grow and mature? Here is a simple tip for saving your seedlings . . .
Soil-Less Potting Mix
Soil-Less potting mix may seem like a misnomer… after all, it looks like dirt, doesn’t that make it soil? Not so much- here’s why . . .and HOW to make your own!
Blight- How to Spot it & Cure it
Blight is a disease that is quite common in houseplants and gardens, unfortunately, it can often be difficult to treat. Here is a simple do it yourself cure for blight that costs less than .02¢
Sweeter Disease Free Tomato Tip
Here is a tip for producing amazingly sweet tomatoes that are free from blight, a …
Dirt Cheap Gardening
The saying used to be “Dirt Cheap” but anyone who gardens knows that Dirt Cheap isn’t so truthful these days. On a recent visit to the home and garden center of our local Home & Garden store I discovered, much to my dismay, that a bag of “dirt” was quite expensive! Here are a few of our favorite gardening tips to bring you back to the days when having your own garden truly was “Dirt Cheap”!
Make Your Own Potting Mixes
You don’t have to spend a fortune purchasing high-quality Commercial Potting Mix, you can easily …
Landscaping & Gardening Inexpensively
Create your Own Beautiful Flower Gardens Purchase younger plants (or plant your own seeds) The …
Landscaping using what you have
Need to dress up your lawn and garden areas, or perhaps a walkway with a …
Horseradish to Stop fungal diseases
Horseradish is an amazingly cheap and simple, yet effective preventative for fungal disease in the …
How to Control Powdery Mildew
What is Powdery Mildew? Powdery Mildew is an easily identifiable fungal plant disease which unfortunately …