Advantages of using native plants.
Can someone please simplify composting instructions for me?
Composting: Baking a Soil Layer Cake Materials: Kitchen organic waste, shredded plant matter (leaves, grass clippings, hay, etc.), ground limestone, manure (aged or fresh), garden soil, shovel,
garden cart (preferable) or wheelbarrow, hoe, buckets of water or watering hose ... more
What plant will survive that dry, sunny piece of my yard?
Yucca species Landscape
Use: An underused accent plant for bold, dramatic touch on the dry landscape. ... more
Can you use your garden to attract wildlife?
I’ve met so many deer-plagued gardeners (and seen a lot of Solomon’s plume missing their plumes) that the idea of going
out of one’s way to attract wildlife to the garden starts to sound like heresy ... more
What is a bright, hardy unusual ground cover?
Red Orach This
annual was originally grown as a vegetable, for its young foliage and stems have a salty, spinach-like taste. The red-leaved form, however, has entranced many and is now more of an ornamental than anything else ...
more
Why can’t I grow trees by just following the instructions everyone gets?
Wetland Advice and Dryland Conditions We who struggle to keep a tree alive on scant rainfall, in less than ideal soil, fall through the cracks of prevailing tree-growing approaches. Guidance on how to
grow a tree where even nature doesn’t is difficult to find ... more
|