Essential Tools for Gardening – Mother Earth News
Every visit to the garden center takes you past a wide array of new tools and gadgets that seem to be just what you need to make gardening easier. By…
MOTHER’s Product Picks for April/May 2019 – Mother Earth News
Valley Oak Broadfork $195 at Valley Oak Tool The age-old adage “Work smarter, not harder” has few better applications than when breaking ground in a garden. Broadforks allow you to…
How to Sharpen and Maintain Gardening Tools (Video) – Mother Earth News
Where would we be without our trusty gardening tools? With a little tender loving care, there’s no reason they shouldn’t last for many years. You can easily maintain your gardening…
New Mini-Greenhouses – Mother Earth News
Gardeners, if you’re aching to keep your crops going longer through late fall and winter, and itching to get new crops into the ground as early as possible in spring,…
New Fiskars Garden Tools – Mother Earth News
Fiskars now offers a line of clearing implements, including a billhook, a billhook saw, a hatchet, a machete, and a machete axe — all great for clearing out and trimming…
How and When to Fertilize Your Christmas Cactus for the Best Blooms
Christmas cacti are low-maintenance and long-lived beauties that show off in a major way just in time for the winter holidays. Often confused for their Thanksgiving and Easter blooming relatives,…
11 Winter Tasks to Do Now For an Abundant Spring Garden
For many gardeners, late fall marks a turn toward a quiet landscape. It’s rife with opportunities to let the garden work for us while it rests. And in warm season…
9 Tips for Preparing Your Garden Tools for Winter Storage
Many of us struggle with organizing our tools for the winter season. For me, this was always a task I postponed until the last minute, only to find rusty clippers…
How to Compost Your Halloween Pumpkins
Almost one billion pumpkins are grown annually to help us celebrate the spooky season, but most of those pumpkins are thrown in the garbage rather than being composted. As fruits…
9 Gardening Mistakes We Won’t Repeat in the New Year
As we come to the end of the planting season and head into winter, it’s time to reflect on our gardening experiences—including wins and mistakes—from the past year. When it…