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  • How to Grow Peppers

    Peppers demand warm soil and warm temperatures, but before planting them, start seeds indoors or purchase plants from a reputable nursery. Choose a sunny location with at least eight hours of sun each day that provides good drainage. Work compost or rotted manure into the soil. Before planting pepper...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 09-04-2009

  • Growing Asparagus

    Asparagus is a great vegetable to grow for a garden, especially because it is a perennial (so it will come back year after year). Patience is key with this one, because it takes a couple years to get asparagus going. You don't want to start harvesting the spears until the plant is 3 years old. Although...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bryan-nhn on 09-02-2009

  • Plant containers drying out too fast?

    Pots or containers that seem to dry out too fast probably have issues with a potting soil that is too heavy or the pot is not large enough to house the root system of the plant it contains. If the soil you have used is very heavy in clay or soils that are too tight to retain moisture, you may want to...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 07-28-2009

  • No composting needed for these free amendments.

    Vegetable scraps and fruit peels : Small quantities, about a pint or so, of well-chopped vegetable or fruit scraps and peels can be buried around the garden in holes about 8 inches deep so the scraps can decompose. You can also bury these scraps between vegetable rows and this process is called trench...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 06-14-2009

  • Homemade Compost

    One of the best ways to get away from synthetic fertilizers is through the use of homemade compost. Compost adds so much value to the soil. It helps retain mositure, adds nutrients, and it also keeps yard and kitchen waste from the landfills. There are several ways to turn plant materials and kitchen...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 06-09-2009
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