Garden Networks

One of the big buzzwords on the Internet has, and continues to be, all about your network. We have networks of computers and networks of friends and networks of networks and it all gets so darn complicates sometimes I just have to shake my head and go find a beer.
It’s rather like [...]

Organic Weed Control

In the grand scheme of things, a weed here or there isn’t going to be the end of your garden; or at least it isn’t in mine. But I know these plants are on the minds of people right now as the main rush on weed control material hits the retail stores. I [...]

Basic No Work Gardening

If plant choice is our first consideration in planning the no-work garden, then where do we go from there? We’re picking the no-work plants that reduce deadheading, have high survival rates, don’t require a ton of pruning and that’s all well and good but how do we get them to really perform well without a [...]

Gardening and the Financial Crisis

Sometimes columns start off with the words forming in my head and rolling onto the paper and sometimes they have to be encouraged by several cups of coffee. This is a coffee column. The second cup of coffee this morning has produced several thoughts that I think relate to gardening and more specifically [...]

How to Build a Compost Bin

Here’s how to build a compost bin using a few free skids from behind a big-box building store, some coat hangers from the closet and 10 minutes of time. Pretty easy and pretty effective compost making.
One thing that folks sometimes don’t consider is which direction the bin is going to be viewed from. [...]

Gardening As Religion

I got this question the other day. I think it deserves a better answer than the obvious one so…
I’m friends (not close) with a bio-dynamic gardener and I am a traditional gardener – can someone tell me why I’m dead wrong on everything I do when it comes to my choices in organic gardening [...]

2 Steps to Organic Living

If you’ve been paying attention to gardening magazines, organic gardening has finally become very, very popular. Now that global warming is clearly here, we’re all being asked to do our parts in small ways to make a difference. Regular readers will know I rarely write about any other techniques but let me highlight [...]