Garden Tips & Advice

Including more organic food in your daily routine doesn't have to break the bank. A few small changes can make a big difference in your health as well as your wallet.

Flowers are the paint on your canvas of green, and it's important to choose the right palette of colours when creating a beautiful garden. Follow these tips to design a garden that deviates from the standard display, and instead delights and surprise

Nature has been composting forever. Here, you'll find the benefits of composting for your garden, for diverting waste from the landfill, and for reducing costs with this DIY mentality:

Even if you don't have much space, you can still grow your own food right in your own back yard. In just one square metre of planting area, you can grow a salad garden to enjoy fresh vegetables throughout their growing season. Here's how.

A terrarium is a delightful and low-maintenance way of bringing more natural energy into your home or office environment. Use these basic tips and steps for creating your own in-home mini garden.

A natural swimming pool is a beautiful, minimum-maintenance alternative to the chlorine-infused pools that need constant cleaning and repair. Natural pools look like ponds or lakes and can be filtered using plants. However, considerations should be m

Compost tea is a great way to spread out your compost so it can reach more of the soil surface. Read on for an overview of the hows and whys of making healthy compost tea.

Kids can benefit from learning about composting; read below to get started teaching them how to compost.

Did you know you can grow your own vegetable garden even if you don't have enough available ground space for one? A vegetable container garden can work really well if you have limited space, just as long as you follow a few important criteria when ch

Clearly a perennial designed for romance, bleeding heart casts a spell with its graceful, arching sprays of dangling heart-shaped blossoms and blue-green, fernlike leaves. Whether planted on the shady north side of a building or under trees along a w

You can use pallets left over from transporting food, otherwise thrown away or burned, to turn a boring wall into an elegant and fruitful vertical garden. Here's how.

Keeping your yard beautiful is a task in itself with gardening and lawn care, but dealing with pests like bunnies and groundhogs eating your plants and digging holes can add an extra challenge. Take heart and try some of these low-cost fixes!

Weeds can be pesky invaders in your garden, but if you grow a healthy, full lawn, there'll be no place for weeds to get a hold. But here are specific tips to deal with the more persistent species, like grass weeds that are already in your yard.

In places without a lot of water for gardens, xeriscaping offers an alternative. You can successfully garden with plants that survive and thrive without water with these tips.

Pruning back rose bushes and trees lets the most full and beautiful roses grow with energy spent toward them and deadwood cleared for new growth. With just a few quick tips, you'll be able to grow show-quality roses.

Having apples ready-to-pick in your backyard is wonderful in late spring and early fall, but getting the most from your apple tree means pruning it the right way. Find out how and when to cut to enjoy a delicious apple-bearing tree.

Getting a dwarf tree to grow the way you'd like it isn't a hard task, but you need to be diligent in pruning back buds each year and directing branches the right way. Here's how to handle the first 3 years of life.

Shrubs can be finicky creatures to get clippings to grow from, unless you're able to harvest them the right way and provide after-care while they grow. A few quick tips will make sure your clippings catch.

Maintaining a pyramid shape for your dwarf tree requires you to know a bit about how it grows and needs to be trimmed. With these handy tips, you'll be armed with your shears for when the seasons roll around.

Thinking about growing a hedge for a property border? Here's step-by-step instructions that you can follow to grow beautiful a single- or double-row hedge.