Wildflowers For The Home Garden

Wildflowers are one of Mother Nature’s loveliest gifts. In the home landscape they are ideal for creating colourful beds and borders, as well as offering a lower-maintenance alternative for large areas or for replacing turf grass. A garden of wildflowers offers several benefits to both the gardener and the environment. Once established, wildflowers require less

Eco-Farming Can Double Food Output By Poor

Many farmers in developing nat ions can double food production within a decade by shifting to ecological agriculture from use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, a UN report showed March 8. Insect-trapping plants in Kenya and Bangladesh’s use of ducks to eat weeds in rice paddies are among examples of steps taken to increase food


Fall Garden Cleanup Tips

As gardeners, we never want the gardening season to come to an end. But we must welcome the coming cold months by preparing our gardens for winter. Follow the tips below for a few good basic steps in preparing your beloved garden for the coming chill: Dig up tender bulbs for storage until next year.

There’s Gold In Them Thar Heaps

What is composted manure worth? On one end of the scale, an urban gardener tossing it into the trunk of the car might pay $2.59 retail for a 20-kg bag and think nothing of it. At the other end, a beef producer or feedlot operator cleaning out pens full of the raw materials for making