Kale Plant Spacing Calculator for Garden Beds
Chances are, you began with the best of intentions: drawing a tidy grid onto your piece of paper representing your garden bed, then envisioning all … Read more
Russell
Flower Color Chart
The first thing your eye sees in a garden is color. Before using our other senses to connect with a place, color establish the mood. … Read more
Chicken Manure Composting Time Calculator
How does fresh chicken manure work? It’s a powerful soil amendment, but not if applied directly to growing plants, because it will burn their root … Read more
Cauliflower Plant Spacing Calculator for Beds
Did you know that even with optimal soil and watering conditions, cauliflower heads occasionaly stay tiny? Why? Frequently, it’s because there simply wasn’t room for … Read more
Flower Names Chart
The labels in the garden center confuse us. Sometimes the same common name is use for different things. Sometimes the Latin names are hard to … Read more
Pumpkin Plant Spacing Calculator for Garden Rows
One little seed planted in the soil when it’s just right means a pumpkin, and then the vine spreads across the lawn. You put one … Read more
Flower Chart
By MIDJUNE, the garden typically runs out of color: The bulbs that flowered in early spring have faded, summer heat has arrived, and the ground … Read more
Sweet Potato Plant Spacing Calculator
A Spacing Calculator helps you figure out exactly where to plant your sweet potato plants, no more typical slip-garden mistakes! Because they root along their … Read more
Grass Clippings Composting Time Calculator
To most of us home gardeners, grass clipping are a disposal issue. Not a resource. You mow Saturday; come Monday, it’s not looking much like … Read more
Coconut Tree Growth Rate Chart
A coconut palm will take years, not months. It takes years. Its worth planting, because you’ll get the rewards of your labor for many decades … Read more
Wood Chips Composting Time Calculator
It feels like magic, but it is realy just biology playing out on a slower timeline: watching wood chips transform into dark, crumbly earth are … Read more