Susan is also blogging at GardenRant.Gardening Tips with Teeth
"Tips, tips, tips" — you see that word all over the Web, and search engine optimizers know to use it repeatedly. To me it conveys a tiny bit of information that's helpful in the very short-term — a racing tip, a stock tip. So I think of good gardening information not as tips but rather as good gardening information.
But readers, if you're looking for Tips, look no further because Gardening Tips with Teeth are right here. That's my term for tips that are actually good, substantive, hard-won gardening knowledge, based on decades in the dirt.
Tips on this Website
- Horticulturist Linda Chalker-Scott on the Myth of Tree-Staking.
- And there's Dr. Chalker-Scott's great tip about the Myth of Needing Drainage Material in the Bottom of Containers (paraphrasing her).
- Dealing with mosquitos and my poison ivy update are both full of suggestions from real gardeners and experts alike. Very current.
- Removing Stumps the Safe and Easy Way covers organic techniques for DIY gardeners.
- How to edge between your lawn and borders? Before buying the cheap+tacky spending a lot for something that looks good, try natural edging. It's free.
- Do something about your garden NOW! is all about getting your garden ready for the new season and what you should be doing in early spring.
Easy Recordkeeping is about the easy-peasy way to keep track of your plants, and why you really should.- Slow Gardening with the Essential Holding Garden is the insider's guide to redesigning your garden. Or less ambitiously, how to keep your plants alive while they're waiting to be actually planted.
- Soil Tests are easier — and more helpful — than I'd imagined. That link will lead you to the How and Why of it all.
- And how about some quick weeding tips?
- Keep on top of weeding or you'll be sorry.
- Remove all of them, no matter how small, and remove the whole plant.
- Water first or the day before if the soil is dry.
- And there's lots more about weeding here.