One of the key advantages to raised garden beds is the ability to manage the drainage of you garden. But once you’ve gone though all the effort to build a raised garden bed, you need to make sure you’ve kept that advantage by choosing a good soil mix. Here is a look at [...]
Tomatoes are one of the most popular vegetables to grow in home gardens. However, they are susceptible to a few unique problems, and one of them is that inconsistent watering can either kill them because they are waterlogged, or watering problems can bring on tomato blight. One way to combat these problems is [...]
While almost everyone would say that they love growing their own vegetables, and in particular tomatoes, there is the need for some type of garden area for them to grow. And these days many people are in a situation where they just don’t have access to the space for a garden. Or in [...]
When it comes to self watering vegetable growing systems, the Earth Box system is one of the most popular. The Earth Box garden system has been around since 2001. It is a container gardening system, primarily targeting vegetable container gardens. Let’s take a look at its features.
Size: It holds about 2 cubic feet [...]
Growing tomatoes in pots allows you to put your garden almost anywhere that has enough sunlight. But it brings with it the added advantage of mobility for your garden. In addition, you can put your garden in spots that just are not feasible most of the time. But there are a few [...]
Square foot gardening is a form of raised bed vegetable gardening that takes advantage of a specialized grid on the garden to identify the best layout that will minimize the work involved in vegetable gardening. Here is a look at several advantages to square foot gardening.
One of the advantages to raised bed gardens is the fact that you can solve the problems that you have in your yard by simply using a different soil mix in the bed that does not come directly from your yard. So if your yard is too sandy or has too much clay, you [...]
Cold frames are basically raised beds with a cover to protect tender plants from the cold and frost temperatures. Here’s a look at starting tomatoes using a cold frame.