There are many gardeners who love adding native plantings to their property, and many native species will be drought tolerant as well as hardy. However, planning a drought tolerant landscape (also called Xeriscaping) is not the same thing. The difference with drought-tolerant plantings is that each variety is selected for …
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There are quite a few types of vegetables that benefit from an early start. Seeds from tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, celery, cabbage, and artichoke can be started indoors (or in a greenhouse) several weeks before your last frost. This helps extend your growing season and gives you healthy, established plants to put …
Is anything more exciting than choosing the seeds for your garden? There are so many wonderful varieties to choose from, and the photos and descriptions make each one seem better than the last. But sometimes it can be challenging to figure out what all the different technical terms mean. Do you …
Depending on where you live, February is the time when most of us are still dealing with cold temperatures and impatiently waiting for spring. Growing zones 5 and below are still too cold to start seeds, and it may seem like there isn’t a lot to do in the garden. …
There are few things more discouraging than spending countless hours planting and weeding a garden, only to have it decimated by harmful insects. We’ll discuss ways to get rid of pests in a minute, but first let’s go over the steps you can take to keep them out of your …
You made it through the spring garden season! All your plants are thriving, you may even be harvesting early crops by now. But even though spring seeding and planning felt busy, summer is actually the busiest time of year for the gardener. Here are five simple tips to help you …
Compost at it’s simplest is decayed organic matter, known to gardeners as “Black Gold”. It makes a wonderful fertilizer and can be made from things you’d normally throw away. Starting your own compost pile may sound intimidating, but it’s really very simple! There are many compost bins and containers for …
We’ve all seen the trending posts and photos of brightly colored blooms as garnishes, in salads and piled on top of cakes. It might seem like a new thing to do, but people have been eating flowers for over 2,000 years! If you look for edible flowers in specialty markets, …
Read more Tasty Blooms! Edible Flower Garden Tips and Recipes
There’s nothing like fresh herbs to add amazing flavor to your favorite dishes! Imagine how delightful it would be to have herbs growing right outside your door, so you can step out and snip off a few sprigs whenever you needed them. Â Choose a location close to the house. …
We’ve all seen and fallen in love with those pictures of old-fashioned kitchen gardens: vegetables and flowers and herbs all mixed together in a glorious mix of color and textures. It turns out that those early gardeners were on to something! Not only are these combinations of different plants a delight to …
Read more Bringing Back the Kitchen Garden – Companion Planting
It’s that exciting time of year when seeds we planted in little pots are growing bigger by the day, and soon we’ll be able to move them outside to the garden. Maybe we’ve even direct-seeded some hardy varieties. But before we get too many vegetables in the ground, we might …
There are over 150 foods that we grow that depend on pollinators to produce their crops. These pollinators, like bees, ants, hummingbirds, butterflies, and bats, are just as important to the plants as sun and water! If you’ve eaten an apple, cucumber, strawberry or a tomato lately, you’ve eaten the product of …
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Even though bright annuals are making an appearance at nurseries and grocery stores, the mainstay of many flower gardens are those hardy perennials. There’s no need to buy new ones each year, just care for the plants properly (usually simple, low-maintenance care) and they spring back each year to expand …
Container Gardening Not everyone has enough room on their property for a vegetable garden, and for some with limited mobility it may simply be too much work. For those who want to grow fresh produce without tearing up the yard or breaking a sweat, there’s container gardening! When most of …
Whether you have plans for a small kitchen garden or a large plot with enough vegetables to run your own produce stand, you’ll want to properly prepare the location before you plant. Choosing the best place for a garden isn’t complicated, but making the right choice will help you grow …
How Many Plants Do I Really Need? When starting seeds for a vegetable garden, it’s easy to get swept away in our excitement and plant dozens of each variety. Two months later we’re staring at a sea of plants that need to be transplanted, and there’s not enough room in …
Germination Station – DIY Indoor Seed Starting Putting a few pots of seeds in a sunny South-facing window may be fine, but for those wanting to start enough seeds for a larger garden, we need a Germination Station! The simplest method is to buy a heavy-duty wire shelving unit. This …
10 Best Seed Germinating Ideas We all have visions of lush gardens dancing in our heads while looking at seeds, and it’s so much fun to pick all the varieties we’ll grow that we can forget there’s work to be done between opening the seed packets and harvesting our bounty! …
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