Simple Ideas for Better Homes, Gardens & Outdoor Spaces
Grow thriving vegetable gardens with practical tips, easy planting ideas, soil preparation guides, seasonal advice, pest control solutions, and simple ways to grow fresh, healthy vegetables at home.
Basil hung in a steamy kitchen tends to blacken and go limp long before it turns crisp. That is the real problem with drying herbs in an apartment: there is often no attic, porch or spare room with dry, moving air, and the kitchen, where most people want to work, is the dampest room in … Read more
Most advice about pest-repelling plants promises more than a plant can deliver. A row of marigolds along a vegetable bed will not stop aphids from finding your kale. A pot of basil beside the patio table will not clear the air of mosquitoes. What these plants can do is narrower, and in some ways more … Read more
Most garden pests are hard to catch in the act. Many feed at night, hide on the undersides of leaves, tunnel inside stems, or live in the soil where nobody looks until a plant collapses. By the time an insect is easy to spot, the population is often large. The plant, meanwhile, has been leaving … Read more