SUSTAINABLE GARDEN: “Know Your Sun”

It’s a good idea to know your sun. It’s recommend monitoring your garden beds every hour, from 9AM to 5PM to determine how much sun or shade your garden receives. It’s also best to do this during times specific plants are growing. Daffodils, for example, grow and flower best in full sun, yet they do

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Sustainable Gardening

Sustainable Gardening

“Sustainable gardening is a method of growing plants such that the garden is able to successfully sustain itself without requiring many outside resources, pesticides, or herbicides. Sustainable gardening is always organic.” I have created this blog in multiple parts Pages to ensure we go through the very basic and essential to have a great garden

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“Garden By the Kitchen” Hydroponics for “The New Age Farmer”

Hydroponics is a subset of hydro-culture, the method of growing plants without soil, using mineral nutrient solutions in a water solvent. The earliest published work on growing terrestrial plants without soil was the 1627 book Sylva Sylvarum or A Natural History by Francis Bacon, printed a year after his death. Water culture became a popular

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