Plants & Trees | Loving Nature's Garden

Step by Step Gardening Club

Do you want to plant a new garden this year, pick out some flowers to attract butterflies or birds, grow vegetables with your kids for the first time, or change to more organic management?

Maybe you want to do something in the garden, but you’re just not sure where to start. Gardening might be a new [...]

Companion Planting Doesn’t Work!

Is it a marigold? by RealEstateZebra

As a vegetable gardener I’ve always been interested in the idea of companion planting.

It seems to make sense, but apparently putting marigolds next to beans, cabbage, or tomatoes doesn’t work!

Evidence Against Companion Planting

You don’t have to take my word for it. In my Inbox today, from the Johnson County [...]

Vegetable Gardening Help

What are you planning for your vegetable patch in 2010? Have you decided, or do you need some help?

Help is Here

Here’s my raised bed vegetable patch in May of 2009. All that green you see is: onions, tomatoes, peppers, and spring greens (which are flowering yellow). Yum! My garden did really well last year.

I’ve already [...]

Spring Vegetables for Beginners

Spring Radish Seedlings

What are the best spring vegetables for beginners in the garden? Which vegetables do kids enjoy? When should you plant? Where is the best place to buy seeds? I will try to answer some of these questions. Please share your experience too.

3 Easy Spring Vegetables to Grow

These 3 spring vegetables are the [...]

We Need Trees

Stop and think about it for a minute. Trees are amazing, incredible, highly useful, and we need them.

Trees in our nature gardens, woodlands, and our forests produce oxygen, provide shade and shelter, absorb CO2, nurture insects to feed the birds we enjoy, provide seeds, nuts and fruits for us and other animals, grow into the [...]