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Reminder! Don't Forget To Get Your Soil Tested For Lead

We've written before about having your soil tested for lead before you start a vegetable garden, and here are a couple more resources that will help you do just......

Look! Square Foot Gardening Template

It seems like square foot gardening has been all the rage this summer. But if you're fan of uniform and consistently spaced plantings, consider using a template to take it to the next level ......

Hyperlocavore: A Yardsharing Community

Hyperlocavore is a website designed to connect people in their community for the purpose of yard sharing. Think community gardens on private property, or a DIY CSA... ...

Top 5 Gardening Mistakes

Avoid these easy missteps, and watch your garden grow! Jump below for our Top 5 mistakes to avoid, and add your own......

If you care about the earth but haven't yet found away to celebrate Earth Day, why not plant a tree? You can never have too many fruit trees, and now's a good time of year to plant them. See some ha...

Green Ideas for the Yard from Instructables

We all know Instructables is great for all sorts of great DIY ideas. Since Spring is upon us (hopefully!), here are a few Instructables for your garden including a DIY garden shovel, a couple of cheap...

Start Your Seeds In a DIY Growbox!

If the Recycled Rotisserie Chicken Green House wasn't your thing (maybe you're a vegetarian?) for Starting Seeds for Spring, maybe you'd prefer this DIY grow box with LED lights....

Time to Start Your Seeds for Spring?

I know it's still really early in the year, but some plants recommend seeding 4 to 8 weeks before the growing season! By starting your own seeds instead of buying plants, you know that they've been gr...

Gardening
Best of 2008

It might be hard to think about gardening at this time a year (depending on where you live) but Re-Nest had some great posts this year on keeping your garden green in more ways than one! Whether it be...

Functional Landscape: Now is the Time to Plant Garlic!

Though it's getting late in some parts of the country, in many places, there's still time to get those cloves into the ground for a bountiful garlic harvest come spring. ...

How to: 9 Steps to Planting a Tree

Most folks are aware of the benefits of planting more trees: carbon sequestering, erosion control, oxygen production, natural shade (save on A/C), privacy, noise control, wind block - the list goes on...

Interview: Rose's Sustainable Gardening Tips
Washington DC

Rose has become a local expert in green living, as explained in the recent house tour of her lovely solar home. Her garden has so many plants, flowers and trees that it almost hides her house! Bel...

Look! Vintage Refrigerator Drawer Planter

As renters, we can't justify buying a shmancy new vintage-looking, energy-efficient fridge (yet), so we live vicariously through this vintage crisper drawer reincarnated as a planter in our container ...

Drought Tolerant Plant: Bromeliads

If you're looking for a native plant, one that can provide brilliant colour, that thrives in all types of light (including varieties that thrive in full shade and full sun), indoors and out, and that'...

Look! Recycled Plastic Flower Pots

We're not exactly sure what these blue plastic flower pots used to be, but they certainly served some other purpose. We saw them as we were walking to the grocery store yesterday afternoon and grab...

If You Grow Just One Thing This Spring... Plant Arugula

We were at the greengrocer a couple months ago, slightly nonplussed because we couldn't find arugula yet. The girl at the counter told us that she just grows it herself; even through the winter, she ...

The Lemon Bonus

We've been helping a friend with a project for the past few weeks, and yesterday we received a great gift: the lemon bonus. That's lifetime rights to walk by and pluck a few organic lemons from her t...

How to Start a Green Roof Garden

Garden-lovers without backyards, go vertical! Such is the cry of a Park Slope resident who recently showed a crowd of New Yorkers (including yours truly) how to start a green roof garden. Since star...

Gardening Questions for Jennifer: Little Light and No Outdoor Space - What Can I Grow?

We asked you last week for your gardening questions for our friend and kitchen gardening expert Jennifer Bartley. Here's the first question - one that we've heard frequently from many of you! This is ...

Mason Bee House

Last year, one of the first things we discovered in our new home was a bee nest. It was in the midst of the uproar over the disappearance of the bee population and it killed us to think about destro...

Biodegradable Planter by Francois Clerc

This expanding planter, Graine de Pot, is the design of Francois Clerc. The design responds to the needs of urban gardeners with limited space for storing pots in the off-season and is made from a bio...

Green Ideas: Recycled Plastic Indoor Gardening Set

While you're waiting for the flowers to come up (like we definitely are), you and the kids can see some progress in just a few days when you plant your organic seeds in this recycled plastic gardenin...

Combatting Scale

We've mentioned a few times before that we're Novice gardeners (notice the capital "N"?). The previous owners of our little house were kind enough to leave us some fruit trees, but they didn't do su...

Garden Update

We had such high hopes. We really can't blame ourselves for this first attempt gone awry, what with the insane rains this winter. But we think the little seedings might have survived if the backyard...