Garden Vegetable Tips

Green Beans Types – Chart

Green beans are separated into two types — Pole beans vs bush beans. The varieties within these two types are listed below. Bush varieties: Burpee’s Tenderpod- stingless green pod, harvest at 50 days, has 5-inch-long green pods. Contender, 50 days (green) Rocdor, 53 days (yellow) Cherokee Wax, 55 days (yellow) Golden Wax/Improved Golden Wax/Pencil Pod [...]

Selling at a Farmer’s Markets

Usually the main motivation for planting a fruit tree is just the joy of maintaining a tree and eating the delicious fruit that comes from it. However, in my personal experience it is possible to go on a quite lucrative venture with fruit trees by operating a fruit stand or participating in a farmer’s market. [...]

How to Safely Spray Pesticide

If you want to protect your fruit tree from pests during the summer, this is almost impossible to accomplish without the use of pesticides or chemicals. This might scare some people into thinking that the actual fruits will contain traces of the chemicals. If you do things correctly, you can get rid of all the [...]

Home Garden Tips

Home garden tips are not that hard to come by. In fact, you can get a gardeners advice from another gardener, in a gardeners catalogue, gardeners books, garden and home magazine, and even from gardening advice websites. Although you will have variations with each plant, there are some home and garden tips that are universal [...]

Avoid Garden Fungus

Most of us are ready to make an investment for landscaping to give a face lift to our homes. Yet we failed when it comes time for some basic plant pruning when our plants need it most. Then we wonder why our highly invested landscape looks terrible. Check out the following home garden tips to [...]

Benefits of Kids Gardens

We can all see how nature is treated these days. It’s a sad thing to know that people do not pay attention so much anymore to the environmental problems. What can we do about this? It’s as simple as starting with our children. It is good to see the children’s involvement with environmental-friendly activities. One [...]

Some of the Best Home Garden Magazines

Various home garden magazines are available in the market today. But would you like to know which stands out from the rest? Here is a selection of home garden magazines that anyone that has a passion for gardening will appreciate. COUNTRY GARDENS often showcases the more unusual gardens around the country. It introduces wonderful new [...]

Six Small Home Gardening Tips

Beautiful small backyards can still hold a well-maintained garden design, only two things are required – determination and know-how. Here are some tips on how to keep your small backyard oasis looking spruced up and glamorous. 1. Deadheading Flowers Keep your borders free from wilted flowers and dried leaves. Deadheading plants or removing dead flower [...]