GARDENING

A detailed guide to the gardening world's main event, the 2009 RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

Why gardening is a therapeutic activity for seniors, children, individuals suffering from depression and low self-esteem

Spring will soon be upon us, and now's the time to start thinking about planting a garden. Gardening can be simple or complicated, but one thing's guaranteed: it WILL be rewarding.

Tips, fertilizing, and things that are often overlooked or forgotten about organic gardening.

Straw bale gardening has been around for years. Amazingly so, there are people who have never heard of this concept. I too, had never heard of it and was very skeptical.

For years after purchasing my childhood home I labored under gardening guilt because I did not maintain the yards and gardens like my parents did. In this article I describe how I learned to fit my gardening philosophy to my life style and came to enjoy gardening.

Forget everything you know about gardening up north, or in the south for that matter. Growing vegetables in South Floria is not as simple as you may think.

My vegetable gardening methods are organic, not because I have any deep convictions about using organic versus synthetic fertilizers or pesticides, but because I'm a lazy cheapskate. It's easier and cheaper to go organic.

Many towns in the United States have noticed a large increase in deer populations. The reasons are many, but the most obvious is land development in heretofore deer terrain. The article is about natural deer deterrent gardening.