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Three Gift Ideas For Your Holiday Season

Saturday, December 10th, 2022

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Are you asking yourself how you can begin to live more sustainably and be more self-reliant in our current economic climate? Do you want gift ideas for your loved ones that will keep on giving? Are you wondering how to cut out extra costs to balance what inflation has done to your …

Extend your Growing & Harvest Season into Fall and Winter

Wednesday, September 28th, 2022

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Wherever you garden, from the northeast and high mountain elevations to the mild climate west and the balmier southern states, the spring and summer growing season often seem just too short. Use the following tips and techniques to reap the biggest bounty from your garden and stretch extra days and …

How to Stratify Your Seeds

Thursday, April 7th, 2022

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You may have noticed some of our seed varieties state the need to be planted in late fall or “stratified” prior to spring planting. But what, you ask yourself, is stratification and how do you do it accurately? Natural Stratification – By planting in the fall, nature takes its course …

Of Sweet Potatoes and Cover Crops

Wednesday, November 24th, 2021

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It’s late fall, and for many of us in the United States it’s the time to cultivate the garden, plant the cover crops, and figure out what to do with all that amazing harvest. For those of you who grew sweet potatoes or yams this year, we hope you ended …

Savoring End of Summer with Mint

Friday, August 20th, 2021

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As another summer evening comes to an end may you find refreshment that eases the exhaustion of your labors. May you be able to smile as you reflect on the day you have lived and may you have the ingredients for the iced tea we are about to introduce to …

Weekend Gardening Inspiration

Saturday, March 6th, 2021

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In our last post we talked about how to create a basic garden plan or outline, as well as how to make lists that will help us think through the process of ordering seeds and supplies. By now, some of you are probably already beginning to start your own seeds, …

Plan a Stress-Free Garden in 5 Steps

Saturday, January 30th, 2021

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What would you be eating today if you only ate what you grew in your garden last year? Obviously, we as Americans have the ability to find produce within easy access of our homes, but we know many of you are looking for more personalized, sustainable options this year, and …

Growing Food Indoors

Tuesday, November 19th, 2019

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Large seeds such as sunflower benefit from a fine covering of soil. Young leaves (cotyledons) have a nutty flavor and a pleasant crunch. If you’ve never grown Microgreens, now is the time. These little bursts of flavor pack a substantial nutritional punch, and you can grow them in the light …

Drought-Tolerant Landscaping: Save Water, Spread Beauty

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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 …

Creating a Bird Habitat in Your Garden

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Attracting wild birds to your yard and garden is a win/win, benefiting both the birds and the garden. Not only will you get a team of bug-eating helpers, but you’ll also be providing crucial habitat for birds that helps them survive. Three things will need to be in place for …

Ready to Plant? Vegetable Transplant Care 101

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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 …

Seed Buying 101: What’s on the Packet?

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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 …

Is It Spring Yet? February Garden Checklist

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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. …

Putting Your Garden to Bed – Winter Chore Checklist

Sunday, November 18th, 2018

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For those of us who live where winter is cold and the garden becomes a frozen patch of dirt, it may seem like there’s not much we can do. But properly preparing and maintaining your garden space before the ground freezes is just as important as any other garden chore. …

Summer’s Bounty for Winter’s Table: Long-Term Storage Crops

Friday, August 31st, 2018 Fall| food| garden| Harvest| vegetables

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While our great-grandmothers had root cellars to keep many crops from spoiling, many of us have access to an unheated garage, crawl space, or basement room that will do the job just as well. Storing Fall crops like squash, potatoes, apples, and onions will save you both time and money! …

Preventing Garden Pests the Natural Way

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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 …

Native Wildflower Plantings Step-by-Step!

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If you’re thinking of adding a field of native wildflowers to your property there are a few steps to take that will help your efforts to succeed! Since Autumn is a great time to plant for spring flowers, it’s the perfect time to begin planning. Prepare your site. You wouldn’t …

Planting A Fall Garden in Summer

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One of the best ways to extend your harvest is by planting a second crop to harvest at the very end of the growing season. Many vegetables thrive in the cooler temperatures of early Fall and will perform even better than if they had been planted in the Spring. What are …

5 Ways to Care For Your Summer Garden

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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 …

Grow Heirloom Flowers from Seed

Wednesday, July 18th, 2018 flowers| heirloom| perennials| seeds

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Grow Heirloom Flowers from Seed Heirloom flowers are not easy to define precisely, but you know them when you see them. Flashy spikes of Hollyhock rule the early summer garden; fragrant Four O’Clocks bring a smile at day’s end; the glorious spires of Larkspur blossoms light up the spring garden. Some …

Compost Basics: Garden Recycling

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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 …

Grow Your Own Salad Mix: Lettuce and More!

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We’ve all purchased those handy bags of salad mix at the grocery store, with the usual blend of iceberg lettuce, carrot shreds, and red cabbage. There’s something to be said for convenience and time-saving, but what if you could step right outside your door and find a perfect blend of salad …

Tasty Blooms! Edible Flower Garden Tips and Recipes

Thursday, May 24th, 2018 flowers| food| gardening| growing

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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, …

Grow Up! Creative Vertical Gardening Ideas

Friday, May 18th, 2018

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Not all of us have lots of space for a large garden, but when your vegetable plants grow upward instead of outward the sky’s the limit! Not only does it free up space but growing vertically can actually increase your yield. Here are some great ideas for do-it-yourself garden supports, …

Plant an Herb Garden in 5 Easy Steps

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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. Choose a location close to the house. …

Bringing Back the Kitchen Garden – Companion Planting

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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 …

Companion Planting Flowers with Vegetables

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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 …

Growing Pollinator Plants – Bee and Butterfly Garden

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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 …

Spring Care for Perennials – Pruning and Dividing

Saturday, April 14th, 2018 flowers| gardening| perennials| pruning| spring

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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 …

Growing Vegetables in Containers

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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 …

Choosing the Best Location For Your Garden

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018 garden| gardening| growing| planting| soil

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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?

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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 …

Yes You Can Grow Perennials From Seed

Wednesday, March 28th, 2018 flowers| garden| germination| seeds

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Yes You Can Grow Perennials from Seed Problem: Your vision is vast, but your budget is tiny. Solution: Create the large swaths of flowering perennials that fulfill your garden dreams without spending a fortune, by choosing varieties that grow easily from seed. Herbaceous perennial plants—those that live from year to …

Buy seeds, Not Plants

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Buy Seeds, Not Plants Sometimes growing from seed is not just an option—it’s a necessity. The spectacle of a cilantro plant in a 4-inch pot with the …

Pre-Soaking And Scarifying Seeds

Friday, March 16th, 2018 germinating| scarifying| seeding| seeds| soaking

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Pre-Soaking and Scarification To simulate the processes that seeds go through in nature, we sometimes need to take an extra step to help them germinate. We talked about Stratification, or cold treatment in an earlier post. Here we’ll discuss two other methods: pre-soaking and scarification. Scarification No, it isn’t about …

Pre-Treating Seeds To Promote Germination

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Pre-treating Your Seeds When we start seeds for our garden, we’re attempting to duplicate the effects of nature. Many seeds in the wild go through a cold period or are nibbled by squirrels or tumbled around in rough soil. If we try to germinate these types of seeds without recreating …

Germination Station – Lighting Your Seedlings

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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 …

What You Need Before You Seed

Friday, March 16th, 2018 germinating| greenhouse| growing| seeds| vegetables

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What You Need Before You Seed – Choosing Containers A trip to any garden center or gardening website can be overwhelming with all the choices offered. Should you start seeds in trays, peat pots, jiffy pellets, or plastic pots? Should you make your own compostable pots with a nifty tool …

10 Best Seed Germinating Ideas

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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! …

Everwilde Farm’s Blog

Sunday, March 11th, 2018

From sowing to growing! Look for lots of tips and helpful information about making your seeds germinate, grow and produce!