Garden Tips & Advice

If you have a small space, a container garden might be the best option for you to grow your own herbs and vegetables. Here are five tips for planning your potted garden.

Before uprooting a diseased plant or resorting to an insecticide or fungicide, it's important to correctly identify the problem to choose an appropriate solution.

Flowers, leaves, seeds, bark and roots of medicinal and aromatic plants can be harvested from your garden or in nature. Here are some tips on making the most of your harvest.

Sometimes referred to as black gold, compost gradually enriches the soil with nutrients and balances its moisture levels. Here's how you can make your own.

The marigold has large, bright yellow or orange flowers that resemble daisies. Here are some interesting facts on this somewhat overlooked flower and some tips on how to grow it in your own garden.

A traditional remedy against coughs since ancient Egypt, white horehound contains is a plant that deserves your attention.

The black elder is a small and highly resistant tree with a branched trunk, fragile branches and compound leaves that are dark green and foul-smelling. Here is a more detailed portrait of this intriguing plant and how to grow it.

Poppies are hardy perennial or annual plants that are easy to grow and perfect for filling gaps in borders or in fallow flower beds. Here's everything you need to know about this fascinating plant.

Container gardening is very enjoyable and very convenient. However, to get the best results, there are certain concepts to consider before planning the design of your container garden. Here are three of them.

The word "germander" is a distortion of chamaedrys, whose Greek roots arechamai "soil" and drus "oak tree" because its leaves resemble the leaves of an oak tree. Discover this fascinating plant in brief.

Until the 16th century, before the hop became the key ingredient in brewing, ground ivy was an ingredient in beer. It was also used to make agil herbal tea, which gets its name from the Old French Guille "to ferment", also in reference to brewing. He

Personalized pots are both a pretty and practical way to show the name of your plants using a stencil and chalkboard paint or felt. The following steps will give you some suggestions for making them according to your taste, from felt or terracotta po

Myrtle might be a dainty and lovely accoutrement flower, but its uses are versatile in cooking as well. Here's what else you need to know.

Healthy gardens are supported with regular applications of compost, and both brown and green types of waste are necessary to create compost. By using the right balance in the compost bin, you should be able to avoid problems. Here's how to get starte

You may believe that living in a small space precludes you from doing your bit for the environment, but it is possible to have a compost bin in an apartment.

Whether you're looking for a fun outdoor activity or want to try your hand at harvesting natural foods, berry picking is an ideal outing for the entire family. It's also as simple, as long as you follow two essential rules: always know what you're pi

Composting is a relatively easy way to supplement garden soil using organic materials you might throw away. Before these handy ingredients are ready to feed hungry tomato plants or rose bushes, they need to be deconstructed with a little help from na

Layering materials in a compost pile can speed up the decomposition process so you can enjoy your free fertilizer much sooner.

If you know what flowers to grow, you can have a beautiful garden that provides you with cut flowers with very little time and effort. The plants on this list bloom from early summer to the first frost.

Most people dream of having a skill that would come in handy if they had to fend for themselves. Strangely enough, something as simple as picking wild berries can be one of these skills. When you do decide to go pick wild berries, these tips will ens