Content that focuses on square-foot and raised bed gardening
Check out these beginner companion planting tips to help take your garden to the next level! Whether you’re a new gardener trying to learn the basics, or you’re a seasoned green thumb looking to take you’re garden to the next level, companion planting will help …
Learn how to easily hand pollinate squash plants for more bountiful harvests! Are your squash plants just not producing the way you’d like them to? Maybe they’re growing little tiny fruits but then they just rot off and die. It’s possible this could be from …
Here are 6 simple pruning tips for beginners to help improve the health of your plants and boost your garden’s output. Pruning seems to be one of those gardening tasks that, for one reason or another, often gets neglected. Perhaps laziness is the culprit, but …
Learn how to transplant seedlings into your raised beds quickly and effectively with this easy method that’ll jumpstart your plant growth! The time of year is upon us once again, when we can finally get our gardens planted. By now, your seedlings should be about …
In this article, you’ll learn exactly how to turn those metal watering tanks into beautiful galvanized stock tank raised beds! Last year, we moved out of our old place and waved goodbye to our rickety wooden garden beds. So, this year we figured we’d take …
This year is the year of the pea. I planted one row of peas in my raised bed and they’ve just exploded! I started with some metal stakes and twine for them to climb on but before I knew it, they outgrew this modest little …
I’ve never been a huge fan of tomato cages, mainly because my tomatoes outgrow them by mid-June. Tomato plants want to grow tall and they need the support to do it. If you let them, they’ll grow as tall as your house, but they are …
Looking to build a mini greenhouse to protect your seedlings, but not sure where to start? You’ve come to the right place! Today I’m going to show you how to build a miniature hoop house quickly and inexpensively with hula hoops! So follow along and …
Last year when winter set in and our backyard garden finally died, we were a bit lazy and left all our plants right where they sat. We had good intentions of properly winterizing our garden, but before we knew it, everything was covered in snow …
Overall, our backyard garden did great last year. Our harvest was bountiful, our bug problems were minimal, and things basically went according to plan. One issue we did have though, was vermin. A skunk got into our ground garden and dug up all the plants …