Organic Gardening

Gardening with Chickens: How to Use Your Flock for Manure, Natural Tilling, Pest Control, and More
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Gardening with Chickens: How to Use Your Flock for Manure, Natural Tilling, Pest Control, and More

With more and more people staying at home amidst the pandemic, gardening isn’t the only thing that’s become more popular. Raising chickens seems to be a natural next step for many gardeners. Gardening with chickens…

Starting Sweet Potatoes: Timing, Variety, Growing Slips, and Planting in the Garden
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Starting Sweet Potatoes: Timing, Variety, Growing Slips, and Planting in the Garden

Have you decided you would love to add sweet potatoes to your garden, but you aren’t sure how to get started? That was me, too, a few years ago. I stumbled my way through the…

Problems with Raised Bed Soil: How to Troubleshoot and Revive a Raised Garden Bed
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Problems with Raised Bed Soil: How to Troubleshoot and Revive a Raised Garden Bed

Have you ever suspected that something wasn’t “quite right” with your raised bed soil? Perhaps your plants didn’t grow as well as you anticipated. That’s usually the first indication something is amiss. As I’ve observed…