Welcome to our blog’s advice on growing plants. Here you’ll find tips to green your thumb, whether you’re new to gardening or want to take your skills up a notch.
We dish practical guidance from planting to harvest. Learn how to start seeds, deal with pests safely, and reap abundant veggies and blooms.
Our farming experts break information down into simple steps. Follow their instructions to grow thriving container or raised bed gardens that fit your space.
Stop by regularly as we add new posts to help your garden thrive! We want to see you succeed at urban farming right at home.
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A paver patio usually costs $12 to $40 per square foot. But the number that surprises people most isn’t the pavers. It’s what the online calculators leave out.
Enter your area and paver size. Get the exact paver count, gravel base, and bedding sand you need, plus a warning if your sand depth could cause your patio to sink.
Each of these seven plants has a specific bagua placement that’s stayed consistent across nearly every real source checked, and four of the seven carry a genuine pet-safety flag that almost never makes it into the usual “lucky plants” roundup.
Most garden beds need 2 to 4 inches of mulch. The math is simple. Take your area in square feet. Multiply it by the depth in inches, then divide by 12 to get cubic feet. Divide that by 27 to get cubic yards, since that is how bulk mulch is sold. For a typical 100 sq…
Most small gardens aren’t actually small, they’re just laid out in a way that makes every square foot fight against you, and these 7 fixes stop that.
A paver patio can look flawless the day it’s laid and still sink within two years, and the difference almost always comes down to what’s buried under it, not the pavers themselves.
Feng shui treats a houseplant as living, active energy, and it turns out that’s true in a more limited way than the popular “plants purify your air” claim suggests, while the pet-safety side of the most recommended “lucky” plants is a real gap almost nobody checks.
The problem with most narrow backyards isn’t the width, it’s a straight line running down the middle of it, and these 8 tricks fix exactly that.
Skip the base compaction step, and your $2,000 patio starts sinking within two seasons. Here’s the exact depth, slope, and layering order that keeps pavers flat for good.
Your side yard isn’t ugly, it’s just never had a job, and one layout change is usually all it takes to give it one.
Spongy turf and random brown patches aren’t always drought, and if you wait for the lawn to look “obviously dead,” the grubs already won.
Cover crops turn a bare, tired garden bed into free fertilizer and erosion insurance over winter, as long as you match the right species to your first-frost date and know which ones need mowing down before you plant in spring.
Follow this exact 7-step September sequence, in order, and a patchy, tired lawn can come back thick enough by spring that the neighbors ask what you did differently.
If your deck stripper is drying into a crusty film before you can scrape it, you’re using the wrong chemistry for what’s actually on your wood, and these 7 picks fix that.
A pumpkin or winter squash won’t ripen any further once it’s off the vine, so the trick is catching the right week, not guessing and hoping for the best.
September dumps a season’s worth of garden debris on your pile all at once, and that’s exactly when a small compost mistake turns into a slimy, smelly one.
The right deck cleaner turns a gray, grimy deck back into a place you actually want to sit, as long as you match the formula to your deck material instead of grabbing whatever’s on the shelf at the hardware store.
September planting gives roots a six-to-eight-week head start before winter, as long as you pick the right six plants and skip the broadleaf evergreens that still need spring.
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