Boiling water kills weeds!  I heated up my electric tea kettle in the garage, using the garden hose to fill it several times with water.  Viola!  I poured the boiling water on the weed growing in the cracks

Great idea I read online: Funding Next Year's Garden I love to vegetable garden. I always have more than I can use. I take my produce into the office and have a "Take Some and Leave a Quarter" cup next to them.

There's not much that irritiates me more during the summer months than deer and rabbit eating my plants that I've spent hours babying and growing. Of course, I also don't like to use harmful chemicals in my garden

Do you look forward to gardening every summer only to get frustrated when weeds take over your lawn and landscape beds? I'll be the first to admit - I really, really hate to pull weeds. I love gardening, but weeds can

We have made a sunflower castle with my daughter for the past 4 years and it is such a great activity.  Buy a selection of sunflower seed including (from biggest to smallest) Mammoth, Giant, Hopi black, endurance and

Veggie Trader is like the Freecycle of the vegetable gardening world. Let's say you have a bumper crop of zucchini (imagine that!) or extra seedlings and you want to trade for someone else's homegrown produce (or

Spring is finally here and it's time to get your gardens looking good again. In recent years, one of my favorite things has been to use solar garden lights outdoors in my landscape and along my driveway and walkway to