Bite-sized informative updates on gardening solutions, basics, garden myths and other subjects of interest to gardeners both new and experienced. From the popular Empress of Dirt website (empressofdirt.net), home of creative and frugal ideas for your backyard garden.
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Choosing Garden Seeds: Hybrid Seeds
Hybrids don't have the best PR among seeds, but they can provide traits you're just not going to find in plants grown from open-pollinated seeds.
Planting Fall Mums as Perennials
Chrysanthemums are a fall icon, but if you plant them in your garden now will they survive the winter?
Choosing Garden Seeds: Open-Pollinated Seeds
Continuing our look at different types of seeds that you can buy -- or in this case even produce your own, because today we're looking at open-pollinated seeds.
Choosing Garden Seeds: GMO Seeds
Whether you're opposed to them or would love to try them, it doesn't matter--you can't have them.
Do Pot Shards and Gravel Improve Drainage?
It was common practice to place coarse materials at the bottom of pots. An interesting example of how gardening advice can evolve over time.
Using Fall Leaves as Mulch and Compost
Most of us used to rake and bag our leaves in the fall, but there are better alternatives for our garden.
First Look at Bees
Many of us work to attract bees to our garden, but what do we really know about them?
Fall Pruning Plan
Fall is a perfect time to examine your garden and come up with a pruning plan for the coming months.
Invasive Earthworms: Gardener's Friends, Forests' Foes
Gardeners love earthworms, but scientists looking at their effect on our forests are much less likely to praise them.
Hummingbird Feeders in the Fall
Hummingbird feeders in the fall -- do you need to take them down or risk disrupting their migration?