Ready to Plant? Vegetable Transplant Care 101

Thursday, March 28th, 2019
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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 …

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Seed Buying 101: What’s on the Packet?

Thursday, February 21st, 2019
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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 …

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Is It Spring Yet? February Garden Checklist

Saturday, January 26th, 2019
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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. …

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Native Wildflower Plantings Step-by-Step!

Monday, August 6th, 2018
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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 …

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Grow Your Own Salad Mix: Lettuce and More!

Saturday, June 2nd, 2018
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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 …

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Yes You Can Grow Perennials From Seed

Wednesday, March 28th, 2018
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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 …

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Pre-Soaking And Scarifying Seeds

Friday, March 16th, 2018
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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 …

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Pre-Treating Seeds To Promote Germination

Friday, March 16th, 2018
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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 …

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Germination Station – Lighting Your Seedlings

Friday, March 16th, 2018
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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 …

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