10 Ways to Go Green In Your Garden

Today’s post is from Rob Jones, online marketer and chief blogger for BuildDirect, an online flooring and building materials. In this post, Rob outlines 10 ways to go green when you’re gardening. In this 21st Century of ours, with ‘green’ and ‘sustainability’ becoming such important terms in so many areas of life, from industry to [...]

Homegrown Tomato Photo Contest by Safer Brand

Calling all lovers of growing organic tomatoes. Safer® Brand (organic gardening products) understands gardeners’ love affair with summer’s most prized fruit, and to prove it, the company has launched its Grow ‘em & SHOW ‘EM photo contest . The contest is open to all gardeners, and prizes total $725: * 1st place – $300 American [...]

How to Create a Sustainable Garden

With all the talk about going green and sustainability, it seems that many of us are looking for ways to decrease our carbon footprints. However, there are lots of changes that we can make that will help us go green without having to buy specialty appliances, or conduct structural changes to our homes. One way [...]

Having a Successful Summertime Organic Veggie Garden

Growing your own vegetables can be economical and fun.  Growing organic vegetables goes one step further by giving you control over what is going into your body.  When you buy from supermarkets, you have no idea where the foods are coming from or how long ago they were plucked from the garden.  Most commercial growers [...]

Spring Time, Eco Gardening and the Wonders of Bamboo

It’s the only time of the year that the sound of someone else’s mower doesn’t feel like an intrusion. It’s spring, and the garden has come back to life at last. And if someone is mowing their grass – well that’s great, because the lawns have been totally inactive for months. In fact, the past [...]

Tips for Looking After An Organic Garden

Whether you are a full time farmer or just a home grower of veggies, fruits, and plants, you will need to have a basic understanding of gardening no matter what.  However, everyone has the potential to grow their own garden regardless of how big or little they are.  There are four elements to be mindful [...]

How to Create and Maintain an Organic Garden

Nature lovers often indulge in creating their own garden using only organic methods. Organic gardening consists of using natural techniques such as compost, companion planting, and ladybug cultivation in replacement of chemical fertilizers and other environmentally unfriendly gardening tools. Essentially, organic gardening is practiced by those who wish to enjoy nature without causing it any [...]

Understanding Organic Gardening

Organic gardening has become a bit of the trend in recent days and if you are interested in pursuing this endeavor, it will not be hard to find information related to organic gardening.  A majority of garden centers will offer organic seeds, soils, and composts on a consistent basis and are more than willing to [...]

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