It's easy to buy your transplants from the garden center each season, but there are lots of reasons to sprout your own seeds at home. It will save a substantial amount of money, you'll have access to…
Gardening Basics
Is it better to rake leaves or leave them on the ground?
Fall is here, and the leaves are coming down. Time to begin raking leaves, The popular choice is to rake the leaves into a pile, while the other option is to leave them…
3 Step Fall Lawn Care
Lawn fall fertilizing the most important feeding for the cold season, but it's also essential for a great spring lawn as well. Fertilizing in the fall gives your grass a head start for next spring by causing an earlier spring…
Creative Outdoor Space Ideas
There is a corner in just about every part of our yard that could be used very creatively. We have the four corners that define our property line, but we probably have at least 25 corners when you include all the nooks…
How to arrange plants in pots?
Just because you don't have time, space, or money doesn't mean you CAN'T have a gorgeous garden. Containers, planted pots, and stuffed urns are the new gardens! Anything and everything can be grown in pots, and that's good news for…
Is Foliar Feeding Effective?
As organic gardeners, we are constantly reminded to feed our soil, not our plants. But there are circumstances where we want to directly feed our plants through foliar feeding. Foliar feeding can give plants a direct boost of nutrients through their leaves. This is done by…
How To Keep Garden Records
Importance of keeping good garden records As a beginning gardener, I studied seeds that sounded interesting to me. I read the seed packets, planted the seeds, and hoped for the best. This is how my mother did it. Over the years, I learned:…
Growing Organic Bulbs
There is a certain joyful feeling that comes from planting organic bulbs in the ground and forgetting about them, only to be pleasantly surprised the day they break through the surface several months later. We at Dr. Earth feel good about the many…