Loads of people have jumped into the gardening bandwagon. They believe it’s a simple process of plugging seeds in dirt and occasionally watering them. I am tired of looking around and seeing would-be gardeners not enjoying a successful harvest from their vegetable gardens. So many people are struggling with it, and there just hasn’t been …
Vegetable Gardening
5 Things I Want To Help My Audience With
My blog exists to help gardeners of all experience levels with growing the best produce possible. Growing your own food is a skill that started going by the wayside with the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. It became easier to buy our fresh produce and dry goods from a local store than take the time …
Starting My 2020 Quarantine Garden
It feels like forever since I’ve written about gardening. Not that it hasn’t been on my mind. I think about it all the time. Every time I’m in the grocery store I think about what I can grow from scraps, what seeds can I save, what herbs can I grow on my windowsill. Sometimes though …
Companion Planting: Fight Garden Pests and Increase Your Yields The Natural Way
It was warm outside yesterday. Almost 60 Fahrenheit and it makes me itch to get into the garden. When my girls were very small I turned my attention almost solely to vegetable gardening and left the flowers to a few leftover and neglected places on my property. Not that I don’t like flowers, but knowing how …
Rhubarb: The Unsung Hero of the Spring Garden |14 Recipes|
Many years ago my father-in-law was perplexed and then soon elated when he discovered a hearty, leafy green growing in his garden. He didn’t remember planting anything there, but soon realized that this large plant was one of his favorite vegetables – rhubarb. Rhubarb, of which ONLY the stem or stalk is eaten, is a …
Preparing Vegetable Garden Beds for Spring
I wish that were my garden. . . The end of April is here and I’ve not so much as raked the dirt in my one new garden bed. There is a pile of pre-cut landscape timbers waiting to be put together into six more garden beds and a garden plot BEGGING to be leveled. …
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As a gardener I am always looking for good information that will help me improve and get the most out of my gardening experience. Whether you’re a new or experienced gardener, this week’s collection includes a variety of gardening tips for everyone! Learn how to garden without a big budget or a lot of space, discover …
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 …