Controlling Slugs and Snails

Snail on plant Slugs and snails are attracted to a garden because there is lots of food to eat there.  The nicely manicured areas with healthy plants provide a banquet that is hard to find anywhere else.  However, it is not a banquet for them, at least not for long....

Soil Types In The Garden

Sometimes gardeners forget that not everyone speaks our language.  We talk about sandy loam soil, clay soil, sand, and silt as if everyone knew exactly what those were.  Well, not all gardeners know, and nongardeners, or beginners, certainly do not know all...

Growing Sweet Corn

Sweet Corn photo by Rob Bertholf, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Sweet corn is one of those things that takes some room to grow correctly.  If you have a small garden, you should probably pass on this vegetable.  If, on...

Beginning Composting

Fresh Compost Do you have one of those little kitchen compost pails someone gave you but have no idea what to do with the contents when it fills up?  Are you afraid you don’t have the stomach to make manure tea?  Confused about composting?  I can help with that....