Are Deicers Harmful to Your Garden?

Gibby's Garden Can the deicer that keeps your walks and stairs safe to tread on be harmful to your garden? To put it simply, …

Gibby's Garden Diary Entry #7: Snail Alert!

July 15, 2013 Image: Adityamadhav83 / Wikimedia Commons When it comes to the usual pests in my garden, I’ve never had a problem …

How to Keep Your Garden Healthy in Dry Weather

Image: Gibby's Garden When there is no rain in sight for days at a time and the humidity rises a few notches, it tends to lea…

Tips for Amending Garden Soil Organically

Image:  OakleyOriginals/Flickr You don’t have to be a chemist or even a green thumb to amend the soil in your vegetable garden. W…

5 Gardening Tips for the Month of April

The month of April is a great time to get outdoors and get the garden ready for next month’s planting. I suggest waiting until th…

Gibby’s Garden Diary is Back for 2013!

April 1, 2013 The first of April seemed like a good time for Gibby’s Garden to make our first garden diary entry of the year. Des…

Gardening Tips for the Month of March

March is finally here after a long winter in the north. If you’re as excited as I am to get outside and get to gardening, there a…

What’s New for Gibby’s Garden in Spring 2013

As I pondered what to write about here at Gibby’s Garden today, I was hit with a forecast calling for 12-14 inches of snow the da…

January Thaw

We're currently experiencing a January thaw here in Maine and other parts of the north. Besides providing a warm winter break…

Guide to Choosing Seeds for the Organic Vegetable Garden

Gibby's Garden With so many varieties of vegetables to choose from, it can be hard to narrow down which vegetable seeds to ch…

Vegetable Garden Maintenance and Protection Guide

Gibby's Garden Maintaining your vegetable garden and offering it a little protection from the elements makes a big difference…

What Were You Thankful for This Gardening Season?

With Thanksgiving only a few days away I thought I’d get into the swing of things by talking about what I’m most thankful for fro…

3 Things I Learned from My Vegetable Garden This Year

Here in the north the vegetable gardening season has come to a close. In a way it's sad to see yet another season has gone by…

Organic Gardening Tips for the Month of October

Image: SB_Johnny This time of year there may not seem like there’s much to do in the garden except clean up and put the tools awa…

Fall Decorating Ideas for the Garden

Image: Flominator via Wikimedia Commons As flowers and vegetables begin to dwindle, they often take with them the beautiful and e…

4 Gardening Tips for the Month of September

Gibby's Garden You've been diligent. You’ve worked hard all summer long pulling weeds, watering, carefully tying wayward …

Hurricane Protection: Keeping Gardens Safe in the North

Image: freedigitalphotos.net Here in the northern part of the U.S. , we typically don’t get hurricanes; we get the leftovers. Tha…

3 Tips to Extend the Growing Season in Your Maine Garden

Image: Gibby’s Garden For some, especially those of us in Maine and the north, when August rolls around the growing season never …

6 Benefits of Backyard Composting

Image:   FreeDigitalPhotos.net Attention all organic gardeners; are you composting? If you answered no, you should be. Backyard c…

Garden Cleanup after a Heavy Rain

Image: FreeDigitalPhotos.net “Rain, rain go away, come back another day.” Wow did we get some heavy rain here in Maine over the …