Each spring the avid gardener thinks about what they are going to plant in their landscape and vegetable garden. The beginners look to how they should start and what they should plant. When I was a beginner I fell into the trap of wanting to plant EVERYTHING I laid my eyes one. “OOOO, that’s pretty.” …
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Vegetable Gardening
Inspiration to Get Gardening
Even though my garden plot is now clean and mostly free of weeds and debris I can’t seem to get motivated to go plant. No seedlings were started this spring because I just couldn’t seem to make the time or the space. I need to go to the greenhouse and buy some seedlings. My husband …
How to Prepare the Soil in Spring: Organic Gardening
See on Scoop.it – Digging The Earth How soon is too soon to start preparing the garden in spring? Lucero De La Tierra‘s insight: Temperatures are rising and the vegetable garden itch is needing to be scratched. You’ve got your garden clogs, leather gloves, garden tools and seed packets set out an ready to …
Raised Bed Vegetable Gardening | GoGreenNation.org
See on Scoop.it – Digging The Earth Growing your own vegetables is rewarding and fun. Learn what crops to grow in your spring garden and about the efficient technique of growing your vegetables in raised beds. This event will be repeated on Wednesday, … Lucero De La Tierra‘s insight: What better way to beat the …
Hydroponics and Aeroponics
What is hydroponics? The easy answer is growing plants without soil in a nutrient rich solution. There are several ways to set up a hydroponic system but each have a few things in common. They must allow enough room for the roots to grow. They must offer proper aeration for the roots so they do …
Gratifying Harvest
It is so gratifying to be able to make meals with vegetables and herbs harvested from your own garden. Yesterday I made a mushroom soup that called for a mixture of herbs like sage, thyme, marjoram and rosemary. I had all but the marjoram – which I substituted with oregano – right in my garden. …
Finally Some Seeded Flats
It’s Saturday morning and though I got a late start on seeding my flats this year I am pretty happy with my progress. I have one mini greenhouse, one milk jug and 2 of the 10″ x 20″ black plastic flats with clear plastic domed covers planted. After just 4 days I even have some …
Snow in April
Last week I noticed as I looked out the window that my tulips are peaking out of the ground as are my daylilies, wormwood and phlox. It won’t be long and we will have a lush display of many shades of green with different textures and shapes of leaves. It made me itch to do …
Freedom Gardens New Gardening Site
This site, FreedomGardens.org, is mostly new to me. Our friends at New York Renovators blog joined and when I read their post it moved me to sign on too. The premise of this site is to encourage families all over the US and the world to become more self sustaining – at least as regards …
Hardening Off my Tomato and Pepper Seedlings
It has taken a while but finally the pepper seedlings have come up. Probably, I could have taken the tomatoes out about a week ago, but morning sickness had me doubled over and too tired to care much about seedlings. If you look inside my fish tank greenhouse you’ll see a plethora of tomato plants …