Articles tagged “Green Your Yard”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

The City Girl's Guide to Country Gardening Lesson 12: Sussing Out Your Soil By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Home & Garden Jul 6 2010 Garden not growing? It could be your dirt, says Amy from GreenGardenista.com. + READ MORE

The City Girl's Guide to Country Gardening Lesson 11: Weed Wars By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Home & Garden Jun 28 2010 Suffering from a terrible case of stinging nettles or other yard invaders? Try this surefire all-natural weed-killer, courtesy of Amy from GreenGardenista.com. No pesticides required! + READ MORE

3 Great Ideas for Gardens in Unexpected Places By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Home & Garden Jun 25 2010 Clever ways to snag yourself a little green space, from the winners of Truck Farm's Craziest School Gardens Contest. + READ MORE

Make Your Garden a Haven for Pollinators By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Home & Garden Jun 24 2010 Here are five tips for making your garden pollinator-friendly, as well as 20 suggested plants for attracting pollinators. + READ MORE

The City Girl's Guide to Country Gardening Lesson 10: Miracle Plant Recoveries By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Home & Garden Jun 22 2010 Even if you aren't prone to plant neglect like me, we'll be in the dog days of summer soon, when everything can start to look wilted and spent in the heat. So follow Amy's advice and be scrupulous with your watering to keep things green (or pink) and help them rebound if they start to suffer. + READ MORE

The City Girl's Guide to Country Gardening Lesson 9: Planting Tomatoes By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Home & Garden Jun 21 2010 Remember that tray of seedlings that got me inspired to start gardening? Well things didn't turn out so well for that... but I've still got tomatoes in the ground! + READ MORE

The City Girl's Guide to Country Gardening Lesson 8: Sick Roses By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Home & Garden Jun 11 2010 Amy from GreenGardenista.com is back to teach us how to treat your roses for black spot fungus with a simple, green, DIY recipe. + READ MORE

It's a Truck! It's a Farm! (And Now, It's Going To Be a Movie.) By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Travel & Outdoors Jun 11 2010 The makers of KING CORN have a new documentary in the works — about the crops they're raising in the bed of an '86 Dodge pick-up truck. + READ MORE

The City Girl's Guide to Country Gardening Lesson 7: Spending Sprees By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Home & Garden May 31 2010 Buying too many plants for your garden (before you know what to do with them!) can lead to waste or a yard that's suddenly far more high maintenance than you banked on. Amy from GreenGardenista.com is back with tips on how to avoid this key rookie gardener mistake. + READ MORE

Rotate Crops in Your Vegetable Garden for Healthier Plants By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Home & Garden May 29 2010 Crop rotation helps you grow a veggie garden with fewer pest and disease problems and more robust plants. Here's an explanation of the different plant families, and a handy diagram to help you plan your own crop rotation. + READ MORE

Is Your Lawn As Bad for the Air As Your Car? By Rachel Cernansky IN Home & Garden May 21 2010 Considering lawn mowers account for five percent of the country's total emissions, isn't it time we rethink those gas-guzzling machines? + READ MORE

The City Girl's Guide to Country Gardening Lesson 6: Watering By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Home & Garden May 20 2010 Watering is critical to the health of your garden. But how much? How often? I consulted Amy of GreenGardenista.com to get the dirt on H20-ing your green space. + READ MORE

Ten Surprising Ways to Reuse Wine Bottles in Your Garden By Ronnie Citron-Fink IN Home & Garden May 11 2010 One glass wine bottle could take 4000 years or more to decompose - longer if it sits a the landfill. Ouch. Those sturdy colorful bottles can provide the perfect material for upcycled project for your garden. + READ MORE

6 Crazy Concepts for Micro Gardens That Actually Work, And One We Wish Did By Jaymi Heimbuch IN Home & Garden May 10 2010 While there are gads of ways to grow your fruits, veggies and herbs in containers, some are far more creative - and crazy - than the simple terracotta pot on the window sill. Designers and craftsters have come up with some inspired ways to grow veggies. Here our seven of our favorite, some of which could work and some of which are, well, the first step towards a clever idea. + READ MORE

Learn All About Mushrooms from Cornell By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Home & Garden Apr 26 2010 If you're interested in learning more about fungi, from edible mushrooms to learning what that strange fungus is that's growing in your lawn, you need to check out Cornell's Mushroom Blog. + READ MORE

Un-Boxing! DoLeaf Ships Organic Plants To Your Doorstep, But Not Without Troubles By Jaymi Heimbuch IN Home & Garden Apr 7 2010 A few weeks ago, DoLeaf - a website that connects gardeners to herb and veggie buyers via the Internet - offered to send me a shipment of plants so that I could do an unboxing and share with you my experience of their product. + READ MORE

TruGreen (Chemlawn) Sponsoring Earth Day? By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Home & Garden Mar 16 2010 TruGreen, formerly ChemLawn, sponsoring Earth Day? We had to see it to believe it. + READ MORE

Ample Harvest's iPhone App Matches Up Gardeners With Their Hungry Neighbors By Jaymi Heimbuch IN Food & Health Feb 9 2010 Ample Harvest hopes to help out by putting those 49 million hungry people in closer connection with the roughly 41 million gardeners who grow food in their own back yards. + READ MORE

The Home Ice Advantage: Make An Eco-Skating Rink By Ronnie Citron-Fink IN Home & Garden Jan 27 2010 There are certain experiences from your childhood that define whether you like winter or not. I am a lover of everything winter. I can thank my hockey player dad for that. + READ MORE

Build a DIY Cold Frame: Extend Your Growing Season By Sami Grover IN Home & Garden Jan 11 2010 Building a cold frame is a great way to extend your growing season without investing in a full greenhouse. And you can move it around too... + READ MORE