Why You Need to Start Micro-Orcharding in Your Backyard
Learn how and why micro-orcharding in your backyard can massively increase your home-grown food production in smaller spaces.
How to Grow a Productive Perennial Strawberry Patch
Learn valuable insights and practical tips to help you grow a strawberry patch that will bring joy and abundance to your home garden.
How to Design a Cottage Garden: Growing a Beautiful Mess
Cottage gardens are informal, fun, whimsical, colorful, beautiful, and practical. They are filled with native flowers, vegetables, herbs, bulbs, annuals, perennials, shrubs, and climbers. They provide dimension and structure to garden spaces and a safe haven for local pollinators. The best part is that cottage gardens are very much alive and they change year after year on their own if you allow them to do their own thing. With a few bulbs, seeds, and patience, you can design a cottage garden that will fill out your garden spaces naturally and beautifully. CLICK TO READ MORE.
How to Grow and Care for Bearded Irises
Bearded irises are gorgeous flowers that provide dimension to any floral or cottage garden. They are easy and fun to grow. They multiply each season, so you plant them once and watch them come back with more each year. They come in a variety of beautiful colors too! CLICK TO READ MORE.
How to Grow and Care for Hollyhocks
Hollyhocks bring delight to the garden with their tall gorgeous spring blooms. Did you know that the whole hollyhock plant is completely edible offering medicinal benefits, including roots, blossoms, and leaves? Hollyhocks can be a great substitute for the related herb plant called marshmallow. These plants can be beneficial to our health helping with inflammation of the respiratory tract, cough, stomach ulcers, bowel issues, urinary tract inflammation, and bladder stones. CLICK TO READ MORE.
How to Grow and Care for Roses
Rose bushes bring delight to the garden from their gorgeous spring blooms to the bountiful hips that follow in the fall season. You can be sure to be given a huge harvest from your rose bush so be prepared to learn how to preserve the rose petals if that’s your fancy! Learn how to grow, care for, harvest, and propagate rose bushes. CLICK TO READ MORE.
4 Easy DIY Garden Soil Tests to Do Now
Perform these easy DIY garden soil tests and improve the quality of your soil by knowing which amendments you need to add for nutrients.
Hurricane Survival Tips: How My Family Survived a Category 4 Hurricane Twice!
Prepare and fortify your home to survive a hurricane with these helpful hurricane survival tips for any hurricane season.
How to Avoid These Common Spring Gardening Problems
Spring gardening alone has many problems from unpredicted weather conditions, seeds not germinating, seedlings looking rather ill, confusion about when to plant, not planting the right varieties of plants for our area, planting plants too close together because they are cute and tiny in the beginning, killing seedlings during hardening off outside and spreading diseases with unsanitized tools, equipment, and containers. We have all been there and done many of these mistakes and I am guilty of these gardening crimes myself. Spring can trick us all into thinking that it is time to plant new plants and bring our indoor plants back outside and then the unspeakable sneaky frost swipes in unannounced to kill them all. This post will help better prepare you for your spring gardening and help you have a successful growing season. Let’s elaborate further on unpredicted spring weather conditions. CLICK TO READ MORE.