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1. How You Can Get Rid of Japanese Beetles Japanese Beetles bug me! If you're like me, I like my rose bushes, grape vines, and fruit trees(plum and apple) in one piece not munched on by Japanese Beetles. I love to garden. It's a great way to relax without Japanese Beetles. But,...
2. Rare Vegetable Plants for your Home Garden Rare Vegetables turn a fun hobby into a garden work of art. Gardening is such a rewarding hobby, you dig in the dirt, plant some tiny little seeds than water and nurture them into great works of nature. Then when all the hard work is done you can sit...
3. Green manures - use plants to feed plants Green manures are plants that are grown to improve the soil in organic gardens. They can suppress weeds, improve the soil structure, prevent evaporation and soil erosion and even make the soil more fertile than it was before - you just need to choose...
4. Green Eggs & Chickens: Live Green with Chickens No, my eggs and my chickens aren't actually green. The eggs are brown and the chickens are black (but some do have a green sheen in the sun). We mean "green" in terms of earth friendly. If you want to know: *How chickens can be earth friendly, *Why...
5. Vermiculture = Worm Composting Worm Composting or Vermiculture, is the use of worms in a controlled environment to break down organic material, like kitchen scraps into an highly nutritious soil amendment called castings. Worm composting is great for the environment because it less...
6. Ruth Stout - Organic Mulch Gardener I first heard of Ruth Stout from my mother when I told her I was going to start my first vegetable garden.  Mom suggested I get some books by Ruth Stout and learn about Organic Gardening. Ruth lived for many years in Redding, CT right near the Ne...
7. Sustainable Living Energy crash looms; the ice-caps are melting, sea-level rising, globe is warming.  Doom and gloom. What to do? What to do? Make easy, comfortable, sustainable-life choices. Swap your current lifestyle for one that feeds your soul and reduces you...
8. How To Plant and Start A Garden If you live in an apartment, it may be impossible for you to have a large vegetable garden, no matter how much you may desire one. If you work 60 hours per week, caring for a very large rose garden might be a little too much to handle. If you're con...
9. The Organic Garden Welcome to The Organic Garden, my name is Lauren, and I would like to take you on a tour through the basics of organic gardening. My goal is to extol the virtues of Organic Gardening and hopefully lead more people down the path of sustainability. If...
10. Small Space Gardening I have loved gardening for a long time. When I was growing up my parents had a large yard full of flowers and bushes and trees and a vegetable and herb garden.  However when I went off to college in the city my tiny apartment didn't exactly have...
11. Astrology Planting Guide: The Original Organic Garden. The ancient astrologers spent a lot of time and ink on finding the best time to plant using astrological methods. Since theirs were agrarian societies, astrologically-guided planting was the big economic game in town. Because there were no industrial...
12. Higher Yields Through Hydroponics Hydroponics is the growing of plants without soil. It has become a useful tool in commercial food production because of higher yields produced by vegetables that are grown hydroponically.  It is also a useful technique for the home gardener...
13. Sustainable Gardening The Mittleider Method combines the best features of sustainable soil-based gardening and hydroponic gardening, but without hydroponic expense! It's a complete, easy-to-follow plan that eliminates guesswork and ensures success anywhere: an apartment p...
14. Mittledier: The Best Gardening Ever Also called the Poor mans hydroponics the Mittleider ; Uses half the space Uses half the water Yields 5-10 times a traditional garden Uses no pesticides or animal by products. Has been proven around the world for over 40 years Help yourself while helping...
15. Organic Vegetable Gardening There are many reasons why you should learn organic gardening principles. Maybe you want to start an organic vegetable garden, but you don't want to make a big impact on the environment. Maybe you want to change your current garden for the better. Y...
16. Container Gardening: The Terra Cotta Garden The Terra Cotta Garden is all about creating beautiful containers, and thinking outside the box when gardening. Container gardening gives you the freedom to create gardens where you couldn't before. Do you live in a city where everything is cement? D...
17. How to Grow Organic Vegetables Vegetables should be part of everyone's diet. If you don't want to spend a little bit more for those organically grown and sold in the supermarket, perhaps you should consider planting your own in the garden. It is very easy to do that even your kids...
18. Finding organic gardening supplies Healthy plants are more resistant to disease and pests. Organic gardening helps the soil which in turn helps plant health. Also, by preserving beneficial life pest problems are reduced. Sometimes organic gardening supplies are difficult to find. This...
19. Compost Are you a gardener looking to enlist millions upon millions of tiny helpers to get your flowers and vegetables to grow larger and healthier? Then look no further than compost. Also known as "Gardener's Gold", compost is a soil amendment, a...
20. Organic Gardening Organic compost is the best material to grow your plants in. Compost is the type of soil plants really love to grow in, because it's made from lots of great organic material. It's the safest kind of material to grow your plants in. You'll need to sta...