Composting Cooked Veggies: The All-Important Do’s and Don’ts
Having our own compost bin has been a great way to put food and other waste to better use - by turning it into rich, garden-improving mulch. But when we first started, it was easy to get lost...
There's an awful lot to do in the garden during springtime. Too much it seems, sometimes. So in thinking about a better way to manage gardening time, I wondered - could you prune fruit trees in the...
Having raspberries in our backyard has been one of my favorite parts of our garden. But what happens when they need to be moved for some reason? What do we need to know and do to move them? The...
Growing mint doesn't have to be scary or hard. In fact, it's a pretty hard plant to kill - even if you're trying to. So now that you're growing mint, how and when do you harvest it? Harvest mint...
How to Protect Raspberry Plants in Winter: A Step-by-Step Guide
Raspberry bushes are amazingly resilient and produce some of my favorite fruits. Even so, I wondered what kinds of protection my raspberry plants need during the winter months - if any at all. To...
Fruit trees are a great addition to any garden. However, when they're dying it's hard to watch all that effort go down the drain - especially if you don't know offhand what's causing them to die....
