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How to Install Landscape Edging Around Your Garden

Using landscape edging around the perimeter of your garden is both aesthetic and practical. The edging gives a defined and visually pleasing boarder for your garden and also helps keep grass and weeds from your surrounding lawn from creeping into your vegetable garden.
Here’s a quick guide to installing your own landscape edging:

1. Remove any weeds or [...]

Vegetable Garden Design Part 2: Raised Garden Beds

Last time we talked about vegetable garden design for small spaces. In this next installment we’re going to discuss the benefits building raised gardens. A raised garden is great for both small and large spaces, and is especially beneficial for anyone who has trouble bending down to tend a traditional garden. Also, because you’re filling [...]

Vegetable Garden Design Part 1: Small Spaces

Vegetable Garden Design Part 1

Not all of us have sprawling acreage on which to plant a 50 foot garden. For those of us living on a smaller scale, vegetable garden design can be challenging, but it doesn’t have to be mission impossible.

Choose Your Veggies

When dealing with a small space, your first step is to [...]