It’s always a challenge to know exactly when to plant vegetable and herb seeds in the garden. Whether you start your seeds indoors or outdoors, knowing the right time to plant is a crucial part of learning how to grow vegetables and herbs from seed. Using a customized seed sowing schedule can help you know…
This time of year our gardens may be covered with a bright blanket of snow, but now when gardening season seems so far away is actually the perfect time to design your garden layout. If you want the healthiest vegetables to grow in your garden, then looking ahead, creating real, long-term garden plans is a really…
Garden fresh is best! Right? Even fresh isn’t good enough if the unhealthy plant is producing unhealthy produce. Use these 6 Garden Tips for the HEALTHIEST Garden Produce! Yesterday Bill and I spent a good portion of the day in the tomato patch pulling up tomato plants and interplanted basil. Our first frost will be…
This is the sight you were dreaming of when you lovingly placed your little tomato plants in the soil a couple months ago. Pile after pile of shiny, boldly colored, unblemished fruit of the vine. But the reality is every time you go out to your garden, you’re finding little green orbs that look like miniature apples…
Every year, for the past 6 years I have shared semi-regular garden updates. It has always been fun for me to look back over the growing season and watch the progress in the pictures. Between those updates and my Homestead & Garden Binder, it has been incredibly beneficial to me as part of a journaling…
Yes, it’s true! You can grow a gorgeous salad was grown in the dead of winter during a cloudy week on a windowsill!