Growing Organic Food in Your Backyard

Consider using seaweed or pond weed as a garden soil amendment
REGULAR readers of SHF know by now that I hate to pay for garden soil amendments like bagged compost or fertilizer. One way I’ve found to get good, free fertilizer is to harvest seaweed for your garden or compost pile....

STRANGE as it may sound, my first experience with an heirloom apple tree came during our family’s hunt for a Christmas tree. In November, the farm where we cut our tree allows people to reserve one six weeks or so before Christmas. While my wife and...

EACH YEAR vegetable gardeners in the northern half of North America need to calculate when to:
Start their seedlings indoors
Transplant their seedlings outside

THIS ARTICLE is an update of the original product review that I wrote four years ago. In the previously published review I gave the mosquito magnet a pretty positive rating. I’ve now changed my mind. Here’s why:
I bought my first Mosquito Magnet after one of my neighbors told me that he owned one and that it works for mosquitoes and black flies, but NOT for dog flies or horse flies....