It can be a scary exercise to sit down and work out exactly what is spent every year, on the average home gardens and lawns. Try adding up the costs of plants, weedicides, pesticides, fungicides, fertilisers, petrol, mower and trimmer maintenance, weed eater cord, garden mulch and even water costs. Even the time and effort [...]

It does not matter whether you put your kitchen scraps in the compost or the bin, did you know that you could grow many of your favourite fruit or vegetables from those scraps. Indeed, unless your compost is very well matured you will find stray veggie seedlings may appear wherever you deposit the compost. Take [...]

I was going to put up a vase of some beautiful dahlias, until I saw the earwigs comming out of the bloom. Is there a way to get rid of earwigs before bringing the blooms indoors?

I am hoping to plant a big dahlia patch in my backyard this coming spring. I ordered some tubers from a dahlia farm and the gentleman said I needed to amend my soil. Is this something I can do a little at a time over the winter? Does this mean adding manure?

These babies have been in small baggies with closed but not sealed tops. I put about 2 or 3 pieces in each bag. They were in the basement with never freezing weather. BUT, some of them are a bit moldy and I am not sure if I should dump the lot (sigh) or give them [...]