Get Your Kids In The Garden

The whole family is going to benefit when you choose to get your kids participating in gardening. Research show that children are not getting adequate physical activity and are instead choosing to do things like playing with toys and video games, watching television, and squandering time on the computer. Gardening may be adventurous, instructive, and … Read more

Vegetable Gardening Tips For New Gardeners

For many individuals, gardening is something that can be quite laborious and only suited to those who like hard work. That certainly tends to be the case these days when there are so many other disruptions in life and for someone who is not a keen gardener there may seem to be little incentive to … Read more

Tomato Growing Tips and Techniques

One of the best plants to grow organically in your own garden is tomatoes. Growing tomatoes in pots is easy to learn and a great starter plant for anybody new to organic gardening. If you want to grow tomatoes and know absolutely nothing about it you could probably use some basic growing tips. Here are … Read more

Driveway Design and Planning Tips

What material do you recommend for the building of a driveway? Many materials make satisfactory driveways, but much depends on whether the drive is straight or curved, flat or sloping, in cold country or warm. A good, cheap driveway for a level drive in the New York area can be made of either cinders mixed … Read more

Heirloom Seeds: Why Use Them and Where to Get Them

If you ask someone to picture a tomato or an apple, they usually have a pretty straightforward image in their head. There are over 10,000 varieties of apples alone though. So why do we always see the same several varieties of apple in the grocery store?The reason is that the apples in the store are … Read more

Attracting Birds And Butterflies To Your Garden

Attracting Birds Attracting birds to your garden and yards can be done by placing out feeders, seeded bells and fat blocks filled with fruit and nuts, also by placing scrap bread and cheese. You must remember that the birds also will need water year around. As food becomes more scarce more of us are putting … Read more