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Make sure your container garden survives with these tips

May 5, 2020 By team Leave a Comment

Gardening can help in many ways, from getting you out in the sun to helping you grow delicious fruits and vegetables for healthy eating. However, having a full garden can be hard to maintain and also hard to have in a small space. You should consider growing a container garden instead. Container gardens are great for small spaces, and also are easier to maintain. Follow these tips for planting, watering, container size, and more for successful container gardening.

Key Takeaways:

With gardening, you can get mood boosts and grow healthy food for you to eat.
Container gardening is the best way to garden if you’re worried about space.
Here are tips for successful container gardening with any type of plant.

“Better Homes & Gardens says most plants are not fussy about the containers in which they grow so long as some of their basic needs are met. This means watering correctly for the type of plant, and ensuring sufficient drainage.”

Ask Gardenerd: Where Should the Worms Go?

May 3, 2020 By team Leave a Comment

Depending on what type of worms you are seeing, they can be very beneficial for your garden. If you have red wigglers, they can often be beneficial to the soil beneath where you just pulled them out of, they can aerate the soil and provide a vast amount of nutrients that will be good for the soil. You can move them, but certain worms will destroy the eco system that they are living in, so if you have red wigglers, you will be better off leaving them.

Key Takeaways:

A simple way to figure out if worms are coming from the soil beneath your compost is if you didn’t add the worms to your compost bin, they’re probably native species.
You can move worms from your compost to the garden soil as when new worms are hatched the nutrients left behind will help aerate your soil.
Ultimately whether you want to move the worms or keep them in the soil, it’s all up to you. Worms will repopulate on their own either way.

“There are some imported species of worms (specifically the jumping worm) that, having migrated into wooded areas in Northern United States, are destroying forest ecosystems.”

YouTube: Perennial Crops for Your Self-Reliance Garden

May 1, 2020 By team Leave a Comment

Perennial crops last year after year, so they’re an important facet of any self-reliance garden. There are many different perennial crops out there, from more common ones to some you might not have heard of, so you always have a lot of choice. This video focuses on staple fruit and vegetable perennial crops that you should definitely include in your garden. In addition, here are some links with more information about various perennial fruit and vegetable crops.

Key Takeaways:

You can use this video to learn how to grow strawberry plants in soil.
Here you can find the best techniques for cultivating tree kale.
If you don’t have access to plants you can grow artichokes from seed.

“Our latest YouTube video explores perennial crops that fill in the gaps in your garden year after year”