Cover Crops - a short guide

Hairy Vetch by homeredwardprice

Don’t leave bare soil in your garden when you could plant a cover crop instead. Here’s why and how.

1. A cover crop is a short-term planting which is used to protect and/or improve your soil rather than for food.

2. Plant your cover crop in the fall rather than leaving bare soil [...]

How to Plant a Back to School Garden

Have you ever tried summer vegetable planting for a fall harvest? Back to school time is just the time to try this.

It really seems counter intuitive to go out into the summer heat and plant spring, cool season vegetables. But it works! Give it a try. Here’s how.

How to Know What to Grow?

The trick to [...]

Why You Need a Neighbor Who Grows Potatoes

One of the hardest things about doing something new is understanding what is realistically possible.

Take, for instance, growing potatoes. If I were to hand you a potato and suggest that you grow it how would you know what to expect?

Potato Expert?

Now, if you happen to be a potato growing expert, please do skip down and [...]

The One Veggie Gardening Book You Must Buy This Year

Grow Great Grub – Organic Food from Small Spaces is a 208 page high color paperback book written by Gayla Trail and published in 2010 by Clarkson Pottter Publishers (part of Random House Inc).

What to Love

This book is so delicious I could eat it. Beware, the photos actually make your mouth water! Besides that, it’s [...]

Raised Bed Roof Gardening

Aviad's Roof Garden Beds

Today’s post is an interview with Aviad Giat, creator of Altglobe (a community for  bloggers). Aviad has an inspiring raised bed roof garden  – a great way to grow food in the city when you have no garden access.

Aviad, I understand that you have a roof garden. Never having grown [...]