This easy DIY windowsill herb garden is quick, easy, and inexpensive to make. It would make a great gift for a gardener or someone who loves to cook with fresh herbs. Picking a gift for someone can be hard. You want to give them something they really want and you want it last too. This […]
How to Use Succession Planting to Extend Your Growing Season
How to use succession planting to extend your growing season and your harvest in your backyard garden. Do you have a smaller garden like me? If you do, you’ll want to make the most of your limited gardening space. Planting like you have a huge garden doesn’t work that well. But with these succession planting […]
7 Spring Gardening Chores
After a hard long winter, I’m so ready for spring. With spring comes spring flowers and gardening chores. But after all the snow and ice, I’m ready to get out in the garden. This past winter was a bad one. We had 12+ inches of snow, three ice storms and more than our fair share […]
Everything You Need to Know About Growing Cucumbers
Why should you try growing cucumbers? They grow fairly easily to grow, they produce really well and are delicious to eat. You can enjoy cucumbers straight out of the garden or make them into pickles to keep them longer. They can even be used in beauty recipes. But first here’s everything you need to know […]
Plant with a Companion Plant Guide to Help your Garden Thrive
Growing a garden takes so many things. It takes a good location, good soil, the right plants for your climate, and the right planting plan. I know in our backyard garden I always have to plan right where my plants are going to be growing in the garden, for just the right amount of sun […]
Planning for a Successful Backyard Garden
It’s that time of year to start making a plan for a garden. I love this time of year when I can pick out seeds I’ll be growing, get seeds going inside the house and just start planning out my garden for the year. Planning is really important for a successful backyard garden. 6 Tips […]
Making a Plan for Your Garden, No Matter What Size
My grandparents were raised on a farm and my mom used to visit her grandparents farm when she was little. So it was only natural that even though I was raised in the city, we had a backyard garden each year at our home. It wasn’t anything too big, but enough to grown tomatoes, rhubarb, […]
How to Freeze Tomatoes for Sauces and Soups
My preferred method for preserving tomatoes is to dry them in my dehydrator. But it takes some time to peel, slice and then dry them all. So when I am feeling a bit lazy I will preserve my garden’s bounty of tomatoes by freezing them. Freezing tomatoes is really quite simple and only takes a […]
Transplanting Hydrangea, How One Grew into Three
I love hydrangeas. They have such beautiful huge flower clusters and the leaves are very pretty too. But did you know when you are transplanting hydrangea you might end up with more? We started out with one huge hydrangea and ended up with three plants in the end. When we purchased our home there was a […]
Container Herb Garden for Kids
Do your kids love to play in the dirt? What about growing plants, do they like that too? If they do nurture that gardening excitement by letting them plant their very own herb garden. Even if you don’t have much room to work with, you can still let the kids have their own herb garden […]
Fall Garden Clean Up
Last week was our last Tuesday Garden Party of the year. But I want to share my fall garden clean up. Cleaning up the garden in the fall can take a back seat to getting other things done. But it’s important to do. My garden was looking pretty sad. The green beans were really beat […]
