Richard Murray

Tomatoes are probably the most popular crop grown anywhere for home consumption, but they like a good home to grow up in. By creating good soil for your tomatoes and some simple TLC, success will be yours

Every garden, big or small, indoors our outside should set apart some space for herbs. The returns are outstanding.

There is one essential tool that every gardener, whether a vegetable gardener or flower gardener, cannot be without.

Creating a winter vegetable garden inside your home is a very practical solution to saving money on your food bill as well as providing healthy fresh food for your family in the coming financial crunch.

Don't trash that poinsettia, recycle it and let it bloom again.

Every new gardener and many veterans too, make mistakes every year that confounds them because they all know better than to do these same things. So, just before you go forth this spring, read this as a reminder to see if it will save you some grief.

The soil we garden in is one of the most important ingredients required to build a successful vegetable garden, but how do you know how good it really is?

Growing sprouts is the fastest and one of the easiest methods to provide your family with good nutritional food to supplement their diets in the winter months> Make this a project for the children, they will love growing their own food.

Modern farming methods have caused massive soil depletion on the commercial farm acreage upon which we grow most of our food crops and cereal grains on. All of this has happened in less than one hundred years, but with the exception of some smaller farmers and home gardeners that practice sustainable farming, involving crop rotation and composting, this soil depletion is continuing unabated today.