7 Gardening Mistakes You’ve Been Making Your Whole Life

There’s always an element of chance when it comes to gardening. You can’t control the weather, and despite your best pest-fighting efforts, you might wake up one morning to find that a groundhog has annihilated your lettuce patch. Still, out-of-your-hands variables aside, there are plenty of ways organic gardening can go wrong, especially if you’re…

8 Plants That Repel Mosquitoes Naturally

Look, mosquitoes are awful. They fly around searching for animals or people, to take a bite and suck out their blood. Gross. They may be great food for birds and bats, but you don’t want them hanging around your backyard with their diseases and viruses and whatnot (trust us, mosquito-borne diseases like west nile virus,…