Garden Myth Busters! Pine Needle Mulch
THE MYTH: Using pine needles as mulch will cause your soil to become significantly more acidic.
THE REALITY: False! Read on to learn more!
Garden Myth Busters!
Garden Myth Busters! Are Coffee Grounds Good for Your Garden?
THE MYTH: Directly applying coffee grounds to garden soil will benefit your plants
THE REALITY: Read on to learn more!
Garden Myth Busters! Compost Tea
THE MYTH: Compost tea suppresses pathogens and enriches garden soil.
THE REALITY: Read on to learn more!
Garden Myth Busters! Landscape and Lawn
THE MYTH: Always fertilize your lawn in the spring.
THE REALITY: read on to learn more!
Garden Myth Busters! Vinegar for Weeds
THE MYTH: Vinegar is an effective way to kill weeds.
THE REALITY: Household vinegar has long been heralded for its many uses around the home and garden, but is it actually an effective weed control method?
Garden Myth Busters! Eggshells & Blossom End Rot
THE MYTH: Adding eggshells to a tomato plant’s planting hole prevents blossom end rot.
THE REALITY: Read more . . .
Garden Myth Busters – Tilling!
THE MYTH: Till vegetable gardens every year.
THE REALITY: For hundreds of years, an annual rite of spring has been to till the garden to get it ready for planting. However, current evidence indicates that annual tilling really isn’t necessary, and may actually harm the garden instead of helping it.
Garden Myth Busters! – Ladybugs
THE MYTH: It’s a good idea to release lady beetles in the garden in summer to help control pests.
THE REALITY: Despite their adorable appearance and gentle nature, lady beetles are proven voracious eaters, particularly of aphids and mites. The question, though, is whether this appetite justifies releasing lady beetles in the garden to help control those pests and others.
Garden Myth Busters! – Improving Container Drainage with Gravel
THE MYTH: Put gravel or rocks in the bottom of containers to improve drainage.
THE REALITY: This long-held gardening belief is based on the idea that gravel or rocks at the base of a container will allow water to move more freely from top to bottom, thus preventing the plants’ roots from becoming waterlogged. Ironically, the exact opposite occurs.
Garden Myth Busters! Using Bleach to Disinfect Tools
THE MYTH: The best way to disinfect pruning tools is to use a bleach solution.
A common and much-debated garden myth is that a chlorine bleach solution is the best way to disinfect pruning tools. So popular, in fact, that a Google search on the topic comes back with 1.7 million!