Gardening for Fresh Food and a Beautiful Environment

Nothing helps you thrive more than rich nutrition and beautiful surroundings. Gardening will give you both. Keep it easy, sustainable and smart. You will enrich your health, joy and pleasure.

Fundamental to sustainable gardening is creating a rich ecosystem that will nourish and thrive along with your plants. Encourage birds to visit your garden with quality wild bird seed. Enrich your soil with compost, natural leaves and plant matter, and quality organic soils or fertilizers. Invite a diversity of insects to bed into your garden. Many will directly benefit your garden such as earthworms and lady bugs (lady birds).Create environments for them to thrive and grow, such as building a “bug hotel” from things you have around the house, which is also a fun activity to do with kids. Or get cute houses for beneficial bugs, bees and insects.

Use best practices when planting, which many are covered in my articles below. Most of all enjoy the journey of gardening, that has wonders at every stage from germination through a bountiful harvest or flower display through the return to the soil to renew again.

Gardening Featured Blog Articles

Shows a lush herb garden in the foreground with mature sweet basil, thyme and younger parsley. In the background you see growing seeds just getting started using Bio Dome germination system which makes growing seeds super easy and efficient

Pink tulips, candy striped tulips, hyacinth bulbs and contrasting colors in flower design are shown highlighting the topics covered in the article about planting bulbs in container pots to achieve non-stop flowers in a quick and easy way

Ground Cover Design, Choice and Planting for Sustainability Video Tutorial and Blog, showing ground covers such as Ice Plant Blooming, Lamb's Ears, Pachysandra, Periwinkle Myrtle, and fields of blooms such as crocus or daffodils

Maximize the blooms in your flower garden by learning which plants to deadhead, prune or leave alone. Picture shows gorgeous pink peonies which you should leave alone, colorful sprigs of lupine flowers in purple, orange, yellow and red which you should deadhead, purple iris which you should prune back and pink hydrangea which is dangerous to prune back unless you really know what you are doing.

Glorious geranium thriving and blooming in Summer

Beautiful flower gardens from around the world showcase color blocking principles and design composition learnings we can all use in our front yard or back yard.

Read Top Blog Articles for Gardeners

Watch How To Videos for Gardeners

Flower Garden under a Tree: Choose plants, Design, and Implement for Beauty and Sustainability

Indoor Herb Garden Grown from Seed to Full Maturity See Detailed Tutorial

Deadhead, Prune or Leave it Alone? How to Maximize Your Flowers

Replant Overwintered Geraniums for Another Summer of Blooms

Keep Geraniums Year After Year Sustainably by Overwintering Geraniums

Ground Cover, Choose and Plant the Best Ground Cover for Your Garden Design

Plant Layers of Bulbs for Non-Stop Bouquets of Flowers in Containers

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