Planting Blueberry Bushes In Pots
Planting blueberry bushes in pots is a straightforward way to get around having the wrong soil type, or not having enough space for them in your borders. Containers can even be moved close to the kitchen door…
Growing Plants From Plugs
Plug plants are seedlings or rooted cuttings, sold in trays or ‘flats’ containing multiple young plants in their own individual cells. Growing plants from plugs is quicker and more straightforward than growing them from seed or your…
How To Stop Rose Petals Going Brown
Usually when rose petals turn brown, it’s just because a healthy blossom has reached the end of its natural lifetime. Sometimes though, it happens because something malign is cutting short your blooms in their prime. And when…
Is My Compost Ready For Use?
Whether you’re tending frequently to a fast-working hot compost heap, or leaving a slow, cold compost pile breakdown at a leisurely pace, you need to be able to recognize when decomposition is complete. What does finished compost…
Can I Leave My Pumpkins On The Vine?
We want our pumpkins to last until Halloween for our grandchildren, and you probably want your pumpkins in great condition for the big event too! But in a good summer, pumpkins may be ripe long before Halloween….
What To Put In Your Compost Bin (And What To Leave Out)
Are you sure you’re recycling everything you possibly can on your compost heap? After all, the more material you put in, the more black gold you’ll get out later! If you’d like to save your kitchen waste…
Why Does My Compost Pile Smell So Bad?
A healthy, efficient compost pile should have very little odor. And the finished compost should smell sweet and earthy when you dig it out. If your pile has a nasty smell that hits you before you even…
Composting Wood Chips And Shavings
Composting wood chips and shavings is a little trickier than composting softer materials, but it can be done. If you have a surplus of woody material from animal bedding, pruning trees and shrubs in your yard, or…
Why Is My Compost Pile Not Breaking Down
Your compost pile is just sitting there. Doing nothing. A big heap of all the things you added to it, looking exactly the same as they did the day you dumped them on the pile. You on…
How To Rescue Wilting Pothos
Pothos is often described as being ‘beginner-friendly’, ‘immune to neglect’, and even ‘impossible to kill’. So wilting pothos, when it happens, can feel like a rather damning result of our care. Was life on our windowsill really…