Container Gardening
by Rachel Lloyd
Container Gardening is fast becoming a genre unto itself. Everything from flower boxes and vegetable boxes to containers for water gardens to hanging baskets and herb baskets to strawberry containers. There are many varieties of plants suitable for container gardening and many kinds of containers to plant them in. Like any kind of gardening, there are two steps: 1)...
Growing Organic Basil
by Rachel Lloyd
Growing Organic BASIL History and Varieties Basil is a flavourful, aromatic herb that is most often used in Italian dishes such as Pesto or prepared with fresh tomatoes and cheese. Basil likes warm garden temperatures and for us in the Pacific Northwest the season is mild but often not warm enough for basil to thrive without...
Ideas of how to use your SunPod mini greenhouse
by Rachel Lloyd
Whether you grow vegetables, flowers, strawberries, herbs or potted plants you can achieve more success and bigger, healthier harvests when you cover your crop with a sunpod mini greenhouse . Some crops require only a few weeks of extra cover, while others perform better when covered all the time. The sunpod mini greenhouse is designed to be...
Double Digging
by Rachel Lloyd
DOUBLE-DIGGING YOUR GARDEN BEDS What is double digging? Double digging is a method of organic soil preparation that basically means preparing (digging) the bed to double the depth. Instead of only digging or turning over one spadeful of soil you are loosening a further spadeful with the help of a spading fork Double-digging is effective in improving...
Growing Organic Lettuce
by Rachel Lloyd
Growing your own organic lettuce is a healthy, life giving experience. Lettuce grows quickly and the changes from week to week are sometimes astounding. With enough water and some attention to variety, soil and garden conditions, it is easy to grow sweet and satisfying organic lettuce. There are many, many varieties to choose from and the choices are overwhelming....
