Blog Title: Gardening Tips and Advice

Water Wiggler - Protecting Your Bird Bath from Mosquitoes and More

One thing that has become a more common concern when we put a bird bath in the yard is the possibility of breeding mosquitoes in the standing water. We take a look at the Water Wiggler and some other choices for keeping your yard safe along with the side benefits of moving water. First, if read more..

Birdhouse Kits - Building a Birdhouse with Your Children

If you’ve got kids, one simple activity that you can spend some time doing with them is to build a birdhouse. A simple birdhouse shouldn’t take more than one afternoon to put together, and the result will be around for years to come, and your unique birdhouse can be a conversation piece for other read more..

Weed Hound - Dandelion and Weed Control - Quick, Easy, Organic

Keeping weeds like dandelions and other broadleaf weeds are the bane of many homeowners. How best to control them is a problem, as we become more aware of the problems with chemical controls like pesticides, we would like to take an organic approach to weed control, but the reality is that it seems like read more..

Urban Compost Tumbler - We Look at the Urban Composter

There is quite a range of different types of compost tumblers to choose from. Probably the most popular tumbler style is the center axle compost tumbler, as it represents a good tradeoff between ease of use vs cost and complexity. Buying one of these is more expensive that a typical bin, but it read more..

Tomato Cages and Supports - Looking for the Best Tomato Cages

Start looking at the topic of tomato cages and supports, and you’ll find that there is a rush of creativity that has been unleashed in the world of gardening when it comes to tomato cages. We take a look at the variety of tomato cages that have been designed over the last few years read more..

Topsy Turvy Hanging Strawberry Planter - Upside Down Strawberry Bag

One of the most popular ways to grow tomatoes these days is to grow them upside down using a hanging tomato planter like the topsy turvey tomato planter, which was invented by the folks at Felknor Ventures. They have a couple of tomato growing solutions, which also include the Tomato Tree which holds up read more..

Soilsaver Compost Bin - A Good Low Cost Composter

We’ve already written some about some reasons to start composting. And it doesn’t take any real money to get started composting on your own. But some gardeners would like to compost, but either aren’t handy enough to set up a compost bin, or just don’t have the time. But you don’t want read more..

Lasagna Gardening - What is the Lasagna Gardening Technique?

Lasagna gardening is does not have anything to do with pasta, unless you include the gardening of the tomatoes for your sauce. Lasagna gardening is a technique for raised bed garden construction, where the soil is built up in layers, a la lasagna. Originally conceived by Patricia Lanza lasagna gardening and described in her book read more..

Growing Balcony Tomatoes - How to Grow Tomatoes on a Balcony

Growing tomatoes is a very popular form of gardening. But for many people today the reality is that they live in an apartment or a condo, where there is no possible access to a garden, and the only real access to the outdoors is the balcony. Is it possible to grow tomatoes on read more..

Best Tomato Growing Tips - Ten Tips for Growing Tomatoes

Growing tomatoes is probably the most popular activity in vegetable gardening. Information on how to grow tomatoes is searched more than any other plant (except for growing marijuana, but that’s not quite the same activity.) It’s actually pretty easy to grow tomatoes, and the tomatoes you get from the garden are much better than anything read more..