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Sort By DateDateFilter CategoriesAllBetter LifestyleLifestyle Pet GardensOrganic GardensTips 4 Ways to Protect Your Plants from Frost 4 Ways to Protect Your Plants from Frost As the summer gardening season ends and the temperature outside drops, some gardeners breathe a sigh of relief that they get to take ... READ MORE How to Start a Gardening Journal How to Start a Gardening Journal Have you ever started out your gardening season only to struggle with remembering all the brilliant ideas and successes of the previous year... READ MORE A Guide for Growing Your Best Salad Garden Ever Growing your own greens for Summer Salads Romaine, buttercrunch and iceberg lettuce, arugula, baby spinach leaves, or even a robust and crunchy bunch of baby kale leaves – al... READ MORE Complete Guide to Hardening-Off Your Seedlings A Complete Guide to Hardening-Off Your Seedlings Beginning seedlings indoors is a great way to get a head start on growing your own vegetables early in the season. The right ... READ MORE Spring Forward Organically Spring Forward Now with Your Warm Weather Lawn and Garden Preparations! Soon, the days will start getting longer, the sun will once again shine upon us, the grass will begin ... READ MORE Planning Your Spring Garden in Winter Making Your List and Checking it Twice: The Winter Holidays are the Perfect Time for Planning Your Spring Garden! Winter is the season of planning. It is the time of year whe... READ MORE Gardening Care Tips for Fall Why Fall is the Best Time to Take Care of Your Garden As the days begin to get shorter, kids emerge from their homes to catch the bus -summoning the beginning of a new school... READ MORE Growing the Best Pumpkins A Guide for Growing Your Best Pumpkins Ever! The coming of Fall is marked by cascading leaves in a kaleidoscope of deep reds, oranges, yellows, and browns, a crisp and cool f... READ MORE Brix Measurement Building the Foundation for Better Health Not to be confused with “bricks” that you use to build sturdy structures, Brix is the measurement of sugar (nutrition) in fruits and... READ MORE 7 Common Fertilizing Mistakes How to Overcome 7 of the Most Common Fertilizing Mistakes Soil is the lifeblood of plants, supplying the nutrients they need to grow and produce. In fact, soil is the startin... READ MORE Inside Your Soil: A Wonderful World of Worms Inside Your Soil: A Wonderful World of Worms As children, many of us spent countless hours digging around in the dirt, only to discover slimy red and brown earthworms coming ... READ MORE Adding Heart to the Soil Matters of the Heart Improving the soil to enhance food yield has been a reality since man began producing crops some 6,000 to 10,000 years ago. An early Greek writer describ... READ MORE A Guide for Growing Your Best Tomatoes Ever! A Guide for Growing Your Best Tomatoes Ever! Nothing compares to the flavor of a fresh picked tomato that has been basking in the warm summer sunshine. Not only do they t... READ MORE How to Switch to Organics Switching to Organic Fertilizer is easier (and more affordable) than you might think! “The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slo... READ MORE Benefits of a Healthy Soil What are the Benefits of a Healthy Soil? “It’s not the soil itself, it’s the soil life that is the most important element.” – Geoff Lawton Healthy soil has many properties t... READ MORE Grow an Indoor Vegetable Garden How to Grow an Indoor Vegetable Garden “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” – Audrey Hepburn If you are limited on space or time, an indoor vegetable garden or her... READ MORE 7 Ways to Get Back to Nature and Why It Matters 7 Ways to Get Back to Nature and Why It Matters “A little garden in which to walk, an immensity in which to dream, at one’s feet that which can be cultivated and plucked; ove... READ MORE Why Fall is the best time to take care of your lawn Why Fall is the best time to take care of your lawn “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” ― Albert Camus The importance of a Fall program in your season... READ MORE The Story of Soil What's so special about soil and how can this non-renewable resource be protected? “The soil is the greatest connector of lives, the source and destination of all…Without pro... READ MORE The Soil Food Web What is the Soil Food Web? “It’s not the soil itself – it’s the soil life that is the most important element.” Geoff Lawton Diagram of The Soil Food Web: Click to View Ful... READ MORE Four Tips to Create a Pet Safe Garden Creating a Pet Safe Garden “Until one has loved an animal a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” – Anatole France We all love our pets! Your pet is part of your fam... READ MORE A Better Lifestyle Is In Your Hands With Organics, A Better Lifestyle Is In Your Hands “If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the ... READ MORE Clean Soil, Clean Water The Importance of Clean Soil in Producing Clean Water “No clean soil, no clean water… No clean water, no clean soil.” – Hendrikus Schraven We’ve been drinking the same wa... READ MORE Create an Organic Garden - Without Being Martha Stewart How to Create an Organic Garden without being Martha Stewart “The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.” James Oppenheimer Whethe... READ MORE
