Weeds are the single most frustrating part of gardening. They encroach upon your garden and they cut off nutrition to your vegetables. Most people agree — weeds must go! But the solution is not dangerous weed killing chemicals. (...)

Acres of beautiful wildflowers, their lovely heads bouncing with the wind. Girls in long sun dresses with streamers billowing off wide brimmed hats running and laughing through the colorful expanse. Butterflies and bees happily flitting from flower to flower.

Building a compost heap is a win-win situation for most households. You reduce the amount of trash you send to the dump and you have a free source of nutrient-rich soil to boost the growth of your garden each year. (...)

One of the benefits of gardening is the pleasure of seeing birds and butterflies. There is nothing like sitting outside on a lovely summer morning just after a rain storm listening to the birds sing their happy songs or watching a swarm of butterflies dance from...

We are living in a purely cosmetic world where looks and appearances matter a lot. People are ready to spend a fortune to improve the way they look. This has been hugely contributing to the growth of beauty, hair and skin care products in the market.

Gardening provides the ideal opportunity to put “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” into practice. From reusing organic materials and quirky objects, to reducing non-organic additives and trash, you can help your garden and the environment by using one or several of the...

Organic Gardening is essentially gardening the way nature would. Too often non-organic gardeners attempt to force a garden to comply with their wishes, contaminate the soil, vegetables and water table with pesticides and fertilizers, and spend a hefty amount for...

Permaculture is a method of natural gardening, landscaping and environmental engineering that creates sustainable agricultural spaces and often includes human shelter in the overall design. It mimics the ecosystems that occur naturally in untouched environments. (...)

Unless you eat out at every meal, you probably have kitchen scraps. It’s likely that your kitchen scraps end up in the city landfill or washed down the sewer line from the garbage disposal. (...)

Many insects are considered garden pests because of the damage that is left in their wake. Snails and slugs are especially damaging, since they prefer to feed on young plants and vegetables. (...)

Permaculture design strives to create an agricultural environment that is sustainable, Earth-friendly, and optimizes ecosystems to their full capability. Each element should provide more than one purpose, the property should contribute to the wellness of humans and...