What Is The Best Type of Manure?
In order to have a healthy, flourishing garden- you need [...]
How to Dry Flowers
Dried Flowers are beautiful to look at and can be [...]
How To Care for Poinsettia Plants
Every December, poinsettia plants (Euphorbia pulcherrima) are given or received [...]
7 Ways to Minimize Your Carbon Footprint
Stop Eating (Or Eat Less) Meat - When you think [...]
Lone Star Tick
Long Island is no stranger to ticks. Since our last [...]
14 Garden Tips and Tricks
Gardening is a fun and leisurely activity, but having tips [...]
12 Ways to Save on Your Summer Garden
Every Spring, everyone has the same idea- create a garden [...]
Black Wasps
Its a known fact that people do not like wasps, [...]
Tick Outbreak on Long Island
Scientists have predicted that this upcoming season is going to [...]
How to Make A Bee-Friendly Garden
Without bees, everything we know would cease to exist. Bees [...]
Plants to Grow For a Healthy Garden!
Here is a list of 16 plants that you can [...]
Add Some Color To Your Garden!
For a long time, dietitians have advised to eat a [...]
How To Start A Rain Barrel
For every inch of rain that falls on 500 square [...]
Buy once, Grow forever!
Most people cut off the root portion of fruits and [...]
What Is The Best Rock Salt?
It's winter- which means cold weather, snow and ice. To [...]
Don’t Refrigerate My Tomatoes?
If you have ever bought tomatoes from a farm stand, [...]
Stink Bugs!!
Halyomorpha halys Chances are you have had the [...]
How to Plant Bulbs in the Yard for a Colorful Spring!
It's almost time to plant bulbs for the spring, which [...]
Cover Crops
By now, you have started to overwinter some of your [...]
4 Ways To Keep Cut Flowers Alive Longer
Everyone loves fresh cut flowers from the garden, but they [...]
Combat Fungus Gnats In a Pinch!
The first frost will be upon Long Island soon, so [...]
Blossom End Rot
If you grow tomatoes, you are familiar with Blossom end [...]
Invasive Toxic Plant Here For the Summer
How to Identify According to environmental officials, a [...]
Nutsedge
Nutsedge Tubers It comes around every summer, everyone [...]
Hosta Virus X (HVX)
After being dormant, the virus known as HVX has re-emerged [...]
Controlling Snails and Slugs In Your Garden
Egg Cluster If you live in an area [...]
Late Blight? What to do now!
Infected Potato Plant Leaves One of the worst [...]
Identifying Poison Ivy, Oak, and Sumac
Here on Long Island, we have many varieties of fauna. [...]
Why You Should Be Vertically Gardening
Urban gardening has been on the rise lately, it allows [...]
Prescription Gardening?
Its no surprise that people who get down in their [...]
Are your plants purifying your air?
Its no surprise that plants have been shown to reduce [...]
There’s an app for that!
Burpee has came out with a free app for iPhones/iPads and [...]
Rose Colors and Meanings
Each variety of rose has its own meaning. Here is [...]
How to Overwinter your Dahlias
Dahlias are tropical plants, which means they will not survive [...]
How to Bring in Plants Without Bugs for the End of the Season
We are planning to bring geraniums into the greenhouse to [...]
What the Deer Don’t Eat
We had a lot of deer come through the Project [...]
How to make your carved pumpkins last longer!
October is here, which means its time to gather those [...]
What to plant in the Summer for the Fall!
While summer is coming to an end, it doesn't mean [...]
How to make a Simple and Easy Yellow Jacket Trap
While it is true that yellow jacket are a beneficial [...]
Kitchen Scraps, in your Garden?
Every day, we throw out all kinds of food scraps [...]
How to keep Squirrels out of your Garden
The warm weather brings new plant life, blue skies, gardening [...]
Mosquito Prevention and Control
It's that time of the year again, yes the warm [...]
Which Plants Attract Butterflies
Here is a helpful list of plants that attract butterflies. [...]