Article Directory
Here are some pages and blog posts that are worth pulling out as stand-alone articles. Hopefully, the list here makes them easier to find than having to search the archives.
Featured Articles
- Always a Lady (bug)!
- Eight Easy-to-Grow Plants for Your First Garden.
- Starting a New Garden from Seeds.
- Easy to Grow Perennials for Your First Garden.
- Improving the Soil for Your First Garden.
- Your First Garden: Removing Weeds and Grass.
- Choosing A Location for Your New Garden.
- Early Spring Gardening Chores: March is Time to Get Back Outdoors!
Garden News
- New Product Keeps Deer and Other Pests Out of Your Garden.
- New Product Lets Gardeners Grow Tomatoes Upside Down.
Gardening Tips
- Basic Pruning Tips for the New Gardener.
- How to Add Plants to Your First Garden.
- How to Select Healthy Plants for Your First Garden.
- Horse Manure Can Improve the Soil for Your First Garden.
- Soil Texture and Your First Garden.
- Improving the Soil for Your First Garden.
- Your First Garden: Removing Weeds and Grass.
- Choosing A Location for Your New Garden.
- Winter Gardening.
- Saving Seeds from Your New Garden.
- The Joy Of Digging Up Weeds.
- Watering Your New Garden — Environmentally Friendly Techniques
- Fertilizing to Create More Blossoms on Your Flowers, Flowering Shrubs, and Trees.
- Windowboxes: The Ideal Container Garden.
- Softwood Cuttings: How to Expand Your New Garden.
- Planting Techniques for Your First Garden.
- Which Plants Are Safe for Your Pets?
- How to Start Plants for Your New Garden.
- How To Create A Flower Garden for Beginners.
- New Gardener's Guide to Planting a Container Garden.
- How to Create a Butterfly Garden.
- Building Your New Garden.
- Top Ten Outdoor Gardening Tips for Fall.
- A Quick Guide to Container Gardening.
- Saving Seeds from Your Garden.
- Different Kinds of Shady Gardens.
- When Spring Blossoms Fade.
- Container Gardening for the New Gardener.
- How to Choose Healthy Plants for Your First Garden.
Herbs
Houseplants
Perennials
- Eight Easy-to-Grow Plants for Your First Garden.
- Russian Sage – Perovskia Atriplicifolia.
- Peony – Paeonia.
- Meadow Rue – Thalictrum Aquilegifolium.
- Hosta.
- Globe Thistle – Echinops Ritro.
- Blazing Star – Liatris Spicata.
- Allegheny Foam Flower – Tiarella Cordifolia.
- Yarrow – Achillea.
- Tickseed – Coreopsis.
- Stonecrop – Sedum.
- Spike Speedwell – Veronica Spicata.
- Spiderwort – Tradescantia.
- Red Valerian – Centranthus.
- Red Hot Poker – Kniphofia.
- Pinks – Dianthus.
- Black-eyed Susan – Rudbeckia.
- Pin Cushion Flower – Scabiosa.
- Gayfeather or Blazing Star – Liatris.
- Fumewort – Corydalis Lutea.
- Fringed Bleeding Heart – Dicentra Formosa.
- Coneflower – Echinacea Purpurea.
- Catmint – Nepeta.
- Blanket Flower – Gaillardia.
- Bellflower – Companula.
- Lupine – Lupinus.
- Phlox.
- Easy to Grow Perennials for Your First Garden.
- January and February Flowers and Flowering Plants.
- Sizzling Sunflowers Say "Summer!"
- Bee Balm Will Attract Hummingbirds, Butterflies to Your New Garden
- Growing Sunflowers.
- Caring for Perennials.
- Bare Root Plants.
Pests
- Always a Lady (bug)!
- New Product Keeps Deer and Other Pests Out of Your Garden.
- Pest Control Tips for New Gardeners.
- Controlling Japanese Beetles.
Shrubs
- Wine and Roses Weigela – An Easy, Gorgeous Shrub for New Gardeners.
- Growing and Caring for Rhododendrons and Azaleas.
- Buying Bare Root Plants.
Soil
- How to Add Plants to Your First Garden.
- Horse Manure Can Improve the Soil for Your First Garden.
- Soil Texture and Your First Garden.
- Improving the Soil for Your First Garden.
- Lawn Aeration — When and Why You Should Aerate Your Lawn.
- Soil and Plant Problems.
- Working with Soil.
- A Beginner's Guide to Preparing Garden Beds.
- The Benefits of Mulch for Your New Garden.
- Drainage Problems.
- Dealing with Weeds.
- Composting for the New Gardener.
Trees
Vegetables
- Vegetable Planting Guide for the New Gardener.
- Organic Gardening Tips for New Gardeners.
- How To Grow Beans In Your Garden.
- Your First Vegetable Garden – Top 9 Tips.
- Harvest Your Summer Vegetables in August While Planning For Fall and Winter Crops.
- 5 Things You Can Do to Extend Your Growing Season.
- EZ Organic Gardening Tips.
- Saving Seeds from Your Garden.
- The Basics of Vegetable Gardening.
