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Composting Guru
Our popular composting guide makes it easy to start producing nature’s perfect soil amendment.
Pest Problem Solver
Have a pest problem? Click here for pictures, descriptions and a complete list of earth-friendly remedies.
Vegetable Growing Guides
Tips and techniques for planting, growing and harvesting your favorite vegetables at home. Dig in!
How to Grow Tomatoes
Welcome to Planet Natural’s go-to guide for growing juicy, extra flavorful, organic tomatoes in your own backyard.
Four Season Harvest
With a few tweaks to your veggie plot, you can harvest fresh produce nearly year-round. Learn how here.
How to Grow Herbs
Make every meal better with fresh seasonings from your garden. Here's our expert advice on growing naturally.
Crop Rotation for Home Gardens
Learn how to rotate vegetable crops to control disease, weeds and pests while boosting soil quality.
Using Autumn's Bounty
Leaves, easily turned into protective mulch, soil-enhancing leaf mold or rich compost, are the fall season’s gift to the composter.
Indoor Gardening 101
When the winter blahs set in and your dreaming of fresh greens from your summer garden, consider growing indoors.
Compost & Soil
Worm Composting: Complete Beginner's Guide (7 Step Process)
Composting with worms (a.k.a. vermicomposting) is the proverbial win-win situation.
Using Autumn's Bounty
Leaves, turned into protective mulch, soil-enhancing leaf mold or rich compost, are the fall season's gift to the composter.
Food
12 Edible Flowers To Spice Up Your Dishes
Are you looking for entertaining ways to spice up your cooking? For centuries, edible flowers have been used to embellish food and adorn platters. They can be prepared into teas and preserves, eaten raw in salads, or chopped into dressings. In addition to enhancing the color and appearance of your food, edible flowers also include antioxidants and vitamins A and C. The most popular edible flowers you can plant and eat are listed, and the variety of uses for these beautiful blooms will astound you!
Gardens
Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Growing Herbs Indoors
Growing fresh herbs through the winter under lights is easy. Here's how.
General
What Do Ladybugs Eat? Complete Guide to Ladybug Diet
You may be wondering “what do ladybugs eat?” Ladybugs feed on a wide variety of small insects and insect eggs. ...
Everything You Need to Know About Black Currant
What is Black Currant? Black currants (Ribes nigrum) are woody shrubs that are native to Europe and Asia and introduced to ...
Achillea Millefolium - Everything you need to know about Common Yarrow
An herbaceous plant that is native to regions of Asia, Europe, and brought to North America, Achillea millefolium is a ...
Gift Guides and Product Reviews
AeroGarden Harvest Review: How to Setup and Is It Worth It?
Gift Guides and Product Reviews
AeroGarden Harvest is the most popular model by AeroGarden, which is the brand leader in the indoor hydroponic gardens space. It ...
AeroGarden Products: A Complete Guide for Beginners
Gift Guides and Product Reviews
Are you curious to learn more about AeroGarden and what they can possibly grow? Are you about to buy your ...
The Best Biodegradable Soap Options You Must Try in 2023
Gift Guides and Product Reviews
If protecting the environment is at the top of your list of priorities, then consider adding a biodegradable soap to ...
Indoor Gardens
Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Growing Herbs Indoors
Growing fresh herbs through the winter under lights is easy. Here's how.
Tips For Accurate pH Testing
Optimal pH levels are critical to healthy plants and high yields in both soil and hydroponics gardening.
Indoor Winter Gardening Revolution
More and more gardeners are growing inside their homes under lights.
Landscaping
Complete Guide to Plant, Grow and Care for Lupine Flowers
Tips for raising striking, drought-tolerant lupine from seeds and cuttings.
Creeping Thyme Lawn (Pros and Cons and How to Plant)
Here's how to grow this attractive, drought-resistant herb instead of grass.
News
Winter Greenhouse Guide: How to Heat Your Greenhouse + More!
Keep your winter greenhouse productive with these heating and heat-conserving ideas.
Pest Control
Good Bugs in Your Garden
Attracting or importing "the good bugs" into your yard or garden is a great way to reduce the number of insect pests.
Seasonal
Organic Gardening 101
Pesticides on our produce, GMOs in our food… how do we protect our families? Grow your own.
Sustainable Living
Composting Toilets: What They Are + Top Picks for 2023
Flushing dozens of gallons of water down your toilets every day can make you think twice about how much you ...
The Best Biodegradable Soap Options You Must Try in 2023
Gift Guides and Product Reviews
If protecting the environment is at the top of your list of priorities, then consider adding a biodegradable soap to ...
5 Best Biodegradable Garbage Bags in 2023 for Different Uses
The next time you're out of trash bags, choose biodegradable garbage bags whether it's to line your compost bins to ...
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