What Your Weeds Are Telling You About Your Soil
Pulling weeds growing in your garden, yard, flower beds, or between the cracks in your driveway is tedious work—especially when they seem to grow back overnight. But rather than blaming…
How to Plant a Low-Maintenance and Drought-Resistant Gravel Garden
If you’re tired of watering your lawn to keep it alive, or if you live somewhere with water use restrictions, you may have given up on having a garden. In…
How to Attract Ground-Dwelling Bees to Your Garden (and Why You Should)
Spring means flowers, and where there are flowers, there will be bees. These pollinators are a crucial part of the ecosystem, facilitating reproduction for many plants and playing a crucial…
Plant These Self-Sowing Flowers for a Low-Maintenance Garden
Perennials are a popular option for flower gardens, and for good reason—they come back on their own. But there’s another option to bring flowering annuals into your garden that don’t…
Where to Get Gardening and Landscaping Materials for Free or Cheap
Giving your yard a fresh new look for spring or upgrading your garden to create the serene outdoor space you’ve always wanted can get expensive quickly: Plants, soil, and other…
Everything You Should Be Using Your Local Extension Office for (but Aren’t)
If you grew up on a farm, participated in 4-H, or went to a land-grant university, you are probably already aware of what a rich resource your county extension office…
Turn a Garden Planter Into Secret Storage
Photo: Bogdan Vacarciuc (Shutterstock) Not everyone has the luxury of a spacious outdoor storage shed. If you love to garden but lack the space to store all the necessary tools,…
14 Things You Should Never Do to Your Lawn
Photo: Ikebana Art-studio (Shutterstock) Lawns have grown increasingly controversial as people have continued to question the environmental impact of maintaining a largely decorative, resource-hungry field of grass for aesthetic reasons.…
12 Ways to Transform Your Backyard Shed Into Something More Useful
Photo: Toyakisphoto (Shutterstock) No matter how modest, any backyard space attached to your home can prove useful—and one easy and popular way to level-up your backyard without too much work…
Allocation To Agriculture Budget Raised, Over Rs 1.25 Lakh Crore Now: PM Modi
PM Modi highlighted that the Budget focuses on agri-tech startups.New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the Union Budget 2023-24, like in the previous 8-9 years, focuses on…