Tag: gardening

  • Creating a Green Yard the Sustainable Way

    Nearly everyone strives to be sustainable, but avoiding chemical cleaners in your home and recycling plastic bottles isn’t nearly enough to call yourself green. In particular, you should look to how you treat your outdoor spaces: If you are pouring oceans-worth of water on your lawn every day, and if you must replace the dead…

  • Save Seeds to Protect Biodiversity

    If you are interested in learning more about saving your heirloom seeds, the…

  • Springtime Garden Soil Prep

    We’ve come to believe that the oh-so-common planting directive “as soon as the soil can be worked” is almost meaningless. Workable soil is important to planting but other conditions—including amendment additions, pH conditions and soil temperature—have to be considered as well. Your friendly and eager Planet Natural blogger has often advised patience when it comes…

  • How to Use Cold Frames As a Year-Round Gardening Tool

    Springtime sees your friendly, think-ahead Planet Natural blogger putting his cold frame to heavy use. Now, in a time of year where frosts are still possible, many of our indoor vegetable starts are almost ready to go into the garden. They need to get use to being outdoors. Many of them can’t survive the night-time cold…

  • 7 Tips to Prep for Gardening Season

    By Monica Bologna If you’ve got a green thumb, you can start getting excited about winter ending and spring finally approaching. It is a good idea to start preparing your garden so you aren’t scrambling at the last minute. Here are 7 tips to prepare for gardening season! Photo courtesy of Shutterstock 1. Use an…