Are you itching to get your garden and landscaping underway? Now is the time of year to get your yard looking its best, which often includes a trip to your local greenhouse or gardening center. This is where you will find all of your planting materials, plants, mulch, and more. There are ways to saveRead More
5 Ways to Care for Bulbs
If you planted bulbs last fall or are sticking some in the ground this spring, you should know that they need a little tender loving care to grow their best. Many people think that bulbs can be tossed in the ground and let go to grow, but the truth is they need a little moreRead More
Tips for Growing Pepper Plants
I’m sure you have seen the prices of peppers in the store lately. They can be very expensive and most stores have a limited selection. You can save money by growing your own peppers. Then you can dice and freeze the extra peppers and enjoy them during the winter. Peppers may be sweet or soRead More
How to Create A Square Foot Cutting Garden
Cutting gardens have always been a popular type of garden plan. If you choose your plants carefully you can ensure that you have fresh flowers throughout the warmer months of the year. Traditionally, cutting gardens have been thought to require a large amount of space in order to accommodate all the most attractive flower varieties.Read More
Growing Heirloom Tomatoes
Have you ever walked into the grocery store and eyed a lightly colored tomato that looked light orange, pink, yellow or tricolored? Those are heirloom tomatoes and they are sold in the produce section for $5.99 a pound and up! It is crazy to think how many people actually buy them, especially when youRead More
How to Get Started With Composting
Sadie is sharing tips for how to get started with composting. Composting allows you to turn your food waste into free compost that is nutrient-rich and can be used for many things! Most likely, you’re going to use it for gardening, so that is what this post will focus on. I personally love to useRead More
Gardening With Your Kids
There is something so rewarding and a bit magical about pulling fresh food straight from the ground, washing it off, and biting into the fruits of your labor. Neither adults or children are immune to the lure of digging in the dirt, growing something with your own two hands, or the final preparations that go into yourRead More
Grow Salad Greens You Will Want to Eat
It’s easy to say you need to eat your greens but if you aren’t particularly fond of them you probably aren’t eating that many. Maybe it’s just that you haven’t been introduced to kinds that actually taste good. For one thing, store bought lettuce is often old and tasteless. Green iceberg lettuce is a popularRead More
Plot Gardening for Beginners
Early spring is when people start thinking about what to grow in their gardens. Seeds are started, groomed for transplanting and then the magic happens. Size matters a lot in gardening. You don’t want to create a masterpiece that is impossible to take care off. For this reason people typically start small and expandRead More
How to Get Your Yard Ready for Spring
I can’t tell you how excited I am for Spring to almost be here. Not only am I done with this cold weather, but Spring is a great time to feel productive. One of the things most people do, especially if you garden is get their yards ready for Spring. Even if you don’t planRead More
How to Make a Straw Bale Garden
It seems like more and more people are giving straw bale gardening a try. What is straw bale gardening you ask? Well it is a unique way of gardening where your crops are planted directly into a straw or hay bale where they remain for the rest of the growing season! No garden rows, noRead More
How to Prep Soil for a Vegetable Garden
Prepping a garden for the growing season can be tricky when planting several different fruits and vegetables. You definitely want to make sure you meet all the plants nutritional need while keeping the soil at a nutritional density that is at appropriate vegetable growing levels. This is a guide will help you meet the nutritionalRead More
Vegetable Gardening – 10 Resources to Get Your Garden Growing
I grow as many of our vegetables as I can. It saves me so much money on our grocery bill. It also allows me complete control over how the vegetables are grown. My friend Victoria and I have come up with some of our favorite resources that we use to help us in our vegetableRead More
10 Raised Garden Bed Ideas for Easier Gardening
I am an avid raised bed gardener. Raised bed gardening makes it easier to work in the garden and control weeds and soil conditions. They are the ideal environment for using the Square Foot Gardening Method. My husband has now built me 10 4′ x 8′ raised garden beds. He created rabbit proof raised garden bedsRead More
How to Start an Indoor Plant Garden – Tips for Caring for Houseplants
One of the best ways to make a house a home is to have indoor plants throughout. There is just something calming and peaceful when a home is filled with plants. Most houseplants come from tropical areas and they were the plants on the floor of the jungle or woods. Since the canopy ofRead More
Simple and Sustainable DIY Bamboo Greenhouse
If you’ve been dreaming of a ‘green’ Christmas but don’t quite know how to make it happen, look no further than a simple bamboo greenhouse that you can build yourself in your own backyard. In addition to keeping your garden greener in the midst of the coldest part of the year and ensuring aRead More
Tips for Growing an Indoor Herb Garden
Katie is sharing tips for growing herbs indoors. Wouldn’t you love to enjoy fresh herbs all year long? Fresh herbs can be used in all sorts of soups and stews, marinades, salads, dressings, teas and more. Buying fresh herbs at your local grocer or market can be quite pricey, and you may not even getRead More
How to Collect Flower Seeds and a Printable Seed Packet
Each year I collect seeds from my flowers to plant next spring. Collecting flower seeds helps me save money on my landscaping and it allows me to enjoy my favorite flowers again and again. For the annuals, like marigolds and snapdragons, I will replace the flowers that grew this summer. For the perennials, like hollyhocks,Read More
10 Tips for Growing Larger Onions
Onions grow well in cool weather, so I always add them to my fall garden. Emily is sharing her tips for growing larger onions. I’m sure you’ve heard the saying onions practically grow themselves. While it’s true they grow themselves unfortunately they don’t always produce large bulbs unless you baby them a little bit. SometimesRead More
Guide to Growing Gourmet Lettuces
Imagine if the next time you wanted a salad all you needed to do was walk outside your door and pick off a cup or two of fresh, live lettuce leafs. The thought of fresh salad gets even better if you just need to reach across your kitchen counter to retrieve some from your liveRead More
