TweetI’m putting blank newspaper and mulch on my veggie garden, but the ground is soaking wet. Is it ok to do this? Or will it cause rot, etc, or attract insects that will kill the plants?

Tweet Got potato bugs in your garden? Aphids? Cabbage worms?  Caterpillars, flies, pests, parasites, or slugs of any kind?  No problem. Your solution is here.  Cheap, easy, and homeade, using 3 ingredients: soap, hot peppers, and water. Vegetable Garden Home made bug spray using Ivory soap and hot peppers. Visit The Bayou Gardener in Avoyelles [...]

TweetI have found toads are very helpful in my backyard garden- they eat ants and slugs, and I think even caterpillars. I want to attract more toads to my garden- and get them to stay? How can i make my garden more toad-friendly?

Tweet Neville Passmore from the Garden Gurus talks about Backyard Aquaponics.  This system mixes aquaculture and hydroponics with  food fish and a veggie garden working together to give you several benefits including filtering the fishpond, fertilizing the garden, and fresh tasty food from your own backyard.

Tweet Information about making paper pots and gardening at Dave’s Garden. How can you make planting pots to start seeds in?  Easy!  Cheap!  Or even free! Newpaper pots are a great tool for your garden: It doesn’t cost you anything extra (you can get those free advertiser papers if you don’t already subscribe to the [...]

TweetThere are a lot of stray cats in my area. I am going to be creating a garden for the first time and I am certain that at least one of the many stray cats in the neighborhood will enjoy making my garden a toilet. How do I keep them out? Is a Remington the [...]

Tweet A rain garden is an attractive landscaping feature planted with perennial native plants. It is a bowl-shaped garden, designed to absorb stormwater run-off from impervious surfaces such as roofs and parking lots. www.raingardens.org This is a fantastic little video that explains how to use a rain garden in your yard to add low maintenence [...]

TweetPeople who own cars that have high c02 emissions are going to be taxed more under the guise of a ‘green tax to encourage green behavior’. The only logic here is that the government wants people to scrap their old cars and buy new lower emission ones. How green is it to scrap a perfectly [...]

Tweet Unless you work from home, transportation is a necessity. But it need not be expensive. You don’t need three cars. You probably don’t even need two cars. And you could likely get by with no car at all, especially in the city. If you live in a larger city, you probably have a bus [...]

TweetHave you heard about the new “Kindle” from Amazon? This is a great little product, and I just love it! It’s a little device, about the size of a paperback novel, that let’s you download and read books, newspapers and magazines, as well as audio books, word files and more from your PC, etc. It [...]