I like to grow wherever I am, and I'm spending some time in San Diego with a friend's garden. If I want to grow some food for myself while I'm here, how can I use what's present in the garden to increase the harvest? SPOILER ALERT: I'm taking advantage of the plant's...
On my quick tour through Brooklyn, I gathered video of some well built 3-part aerobic compost bins. Get inspired with these sturdy, efficient and mostly inexpensive bin designs.
Gardens often ask me to review their garden spaces and give them recommendations. Take this quick tour with me as I talk through the plant spacings of one person’s garden.
Can you create a closed loop and turn all the organic matter in your area into precious compost for your garden? How much do you need each year to improve soil fertility and how big does your compost bin need to be to support your garden activities. Spoiler Alert: for...
Growing Zone Maps are good for telling you average low temperatures during winter, but there are other factors that play into your local temperatures. What other information do you need to know whether your vegetable crops will survive?
This is a garden hack for conserving water while growing food in beach sand. It's essentially a form of container gardening.
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I am very passionate about composting, and it’s common for me to visit people who do NOT compost. Here's one strategy to try a science experiment in your friend's or family's house, do a little composting, and share some composting information with them as...
Over the years of teaching people how to grow food, I started to realize what sets apart a green thumb grower is not necessarily skills or wisdom, but her habits. Yes, there's all sorts of science to learn, but who successfully grows lots of food? What habits do they...
If you’re growing food, here’s 6 tips to start planning now for a great harvest next season. You want to be ready to get your seeds and transplants in the ground as soon as temperatures are warm enough next spring.
