One of the more intriguing ways to garden involves using a bale straw as the "raised bed" for your vegetable plot. The post Straw bale gardening – using a bale of straw as a raised vegetable be...
Edible perennials give you lots of bang for your buck, are productive over multiple years, and often don't require much maintenance The post Try planting edible perennials in your garden first a...
The city of Seattle has been encouraging residents to plant urban gardens, and has even recently expanded the number of P-patches in the community where residents can garden if they don't have th...
Residents all over Seattle are making use of these parking strips to plant vegetables, install raised beds and to add extra beautify to their landscapes. The post Gardening in planting strips fi...
Peatlands play an important role in the environment, and some question whether harvest peat for horticulture is sustainable. The post To peat or not to peat first appeared on Ecoyards .
Here are some tips to get your green tomatoes to ripen on the vine. The post Ripening green tomatoes in the Seattle area first appeared on Ecoyards .
They're squishy. They're slimy. They have weird spiky things coming out of their heads. Bugs are unsightly creatures, and creepy to boot. But many of them are fairly benign in the vegetable garde...
I had the unpleasant task this morning of hand-picking about a dozen snails from my garden. It seems like these little hungry creatures multiplied overnight, but in reality I've ignored my garden...
The Mercer Island Library worked with the Pomegranate Center to build the Mercer Island Public Library Early Learning Garden, a unique outdoor space that connects kids with nature and literacy. T...
My toddler son loves to dig around in the yard, so I decided to put him to work several weeks ago when I needed to weed our landscape beds after a winter of neglect. After watching me dig up a fe...