This is sort of an add on to AZ Trekkers great article on the Global Sun Oven. We had a somewhat rare sunny day two days ago, Feb. 10, 2010. I decided to put our sun oven out around 11:00 am to see what kind of temperature it would reach. This was the ...
Traditional gardening used to follow the standard farming method of planting everything in long rows. There were good reasons for it. The farm tractor would be used to plow up and till a small area near the house (usually for the wife) to garden in. ...
I am doubling the size of my garden this year. I started in the fall by taking down this amazing 26 year old pine tree it was a beautiful tree but had two problems 1) it shaded my existing garden for half a day, and 2) It stood ...
Soil preparation, whether you are breaking new ground or gardening a well established plot, is the most important part of planning and preparation you can do. Your plants are 100% dependent upon the soil they grow in for every nutrient and drop of water ...
The month of February is sandwiched between hard winter and early signs of spring in the second half of March. It is an interesting month for our gardening psyche. We are between the last two months of hard winter and a few more weeks of "milder" winter. ...
I have chosen the screen name of GardenGuru because I love growing gardens. I have had gardens of various sizes since 1972. Most of these gardens were created from areas that had never been cultivated and I was able to turn them into productive, beautiful ...
