Lend Garden Compost a Helping Hand
Gardening has taught me patience. Well, some patience. I personally deemed myself an impatient composter. Composting requires a lot of patience to allow time for materials to break down, but the process can be sped up significantly by taking a…
Category: Greenhouse Construction
Checklist: The Urban Greenhouse
A greenhouse offers the urban gardener greater flexibility when gardening through the seasons. Greenhouses serve as season extenders to grow frost sensitive crops longer into the fall and seed starting earlier in the spring. A temperature controlled greenhouse can even offer…
Category: Growing Fruits & Vegetables
The How-to of Vegetable Seed Selection
Whenever I browse through a seed catalog, I am as wide-eyed as a kid in a candy store. So many choices and varieties make me want one of each! My first list of “to purchase” seeds is always insanely long. …
Category: In the Greenhouse
Why a Desert Greenhouse?
Yes, I live in the desert. Yes, I have a greenhouse. Yes, there are a few differences to running a desert greenhouse as opposed to a traditionally located greenhouse.