Gardeners love annual geraniums for their big knockout blooms and easy care. But, in gardens were drought is common and high temperatures persist throughout summer, scented geraniums may be a better choice.
Growing Melons in the Home Garden
When you hear the melons, often the first thing that comes to mind is watermelons or perhaps cantaloupes. But the melon category offers much more than the average juicy, green-striped dessert of summer picnics including muskmelons, honeydews, charentias, and crenshaws. No matter which melon tickles your tastebuds, this fruit is easy to grow and one […]
Planting Peas in Your Home Garden
Peas are the cool ladies of the spring and fall garden. Like every other vegetable I can think of, they’re just so much better when they’re fresh from vine to plate — plus they’re easy to grow. Varieties generally fall into one of two categories: shelling peas, also called English of garden peas; snap peas, […]
Mint: A Delicious, Refreshing Herb That’s Easy to Grow
You may know it as the toothpaste herb, but mint is a lot more than a flavor for your mouthwash, lozenge, or toothpaste. Its fresh smell and taste add a lovely flavor to salads, smoothies, meat, and tea. Mint is very easy to grow. In fact, it grows so well that you may soon […]
Dependable Garden Ideas from the Roadside
Free garden ideas can be had when visiting local fast-food restaurants or highway rest stops. Created to be maintained with little extra care on a low budget, beginners are encouraged to take notes. Similar plant ideas are especially dependable for a first-time gardener.
Growing Sweet Summer Strawberries
Who doesn’t love the sweet taste of strawberries in the summer? Picked fresh, juice running down your hand as you bite in. Brings back some wonderful childhood memories for me of sitting in my grandmother’s strawberry patch and eating them when I should be filling my bucket for her. Strawberries are fairly easy to grow […]
Successful Gardening with Herbs at The Untrained Housewife
Any way that you look at it, herbs are a win-win for the gardener. In the kitchen, they’re indispensable; in the garden they’re beautiful, textural, and attract beneficial insects. Plus, herbs are one of the easiest plant groups to grow. In fact, when a would-be-vegetable-gardener asks me what crop they should grow first, I […]
Growing Rosemary in Your Kitchen Herb Garden
This woody perennial has evergreen, needle-type leaves that produces dainty, blue blossoms repeatedly year-round. It’s useful in the kitchen, plus fragrant and good-looking in the garden.
Top 10 Gardening Tools
“A bad workman blames his tools” or so the saying goes. But if you don’t have any tools, who are you going to blame? Seriously, though, I’d be lost without my gardening tools because they save me so much time and pain. Literally! Using the wrong tool or equipment around the garden can really cause […]
Growing Sage in Your Kitchen Herb Garden
Sage (Salvia officinalis) is a shrubby perennial that’s not only an obvious herb choice for the kitchen, but it’s a great garden plant in its own right. It’s leaves have a thick, “bumpy” texture, and feel rather fuzzy. Depending on the variety, foliage colors can be bright green, blue-green, purple, or edged with cream or […]
Growing Trees and Shrubs
The Complete Idiot’s Guide Book Review Large ornamental plants create the backdrop for garden landscapes and set off other plants and bulbs. Learn how to grow and care for flowering and garden shrubs. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Trees and Shrubs was written by Joshua Plunkett and Jeanne Hanson and published by Alpha Books, a member […]
An (Un)Helpful Guide to Gardening
A funny guide on how not to kill your plants
