Out Smelling The Flowers, And Planting Them!
Hey everyone! We’ve been offline and in the walking, talking, real world the past two months. Christine has been finishing her book and I’ve been out and about helping plan gardens, giving a few fun garden talks and developing this year’s planting plans for our own personal gardens. We hope you enjoyed our guest feature … Read more
The Makings of True Organic Soil
What’s the most important part of your vegetable garden? Healthy organic dirt! Yes folks, we can have organic seeds, plants, compost and fertilizer, but if our plants are sitting in poor topsoil or heavy clay packed soil, you might spend the growing season wondering what went wrong. Let’s talk about what makes an awesome … Read more
Getting Ready To Garden & Current Affairs
Happy almost spring everyone! You’re probably wondering where all of our posts have been the past couple of weeks-we’ve been busy tending to client’s gardening plans and planting needs, teaching some classes and crafting a whole new batch of articles for both our beginners and returning readers. While we finish the details, here’s the beginning … Read more
Ask the Gardeners: When Is My Compost Ready?
Want to know more about gardening organically, culinary therapy, putting worms in your compost or how to make fudge from vegetables? Whatever your curiosity, drop us a line and one of our kitchen gardeners will feature your question here in our column! Q: I’m new to composting this year and am ready to plant my … Read more
Claim Your Tomato Stake!
Tomatoes are America’s favorite home-grown vegetable. Nothing says summer like vine-ripened tomatoes! They’re easy to grow and offer many varieties. If you’ve chosen meaty Beefsteaks or bushy Cherries, your plants should be budding flowers by mid-June (wait, that’s now)! Water Me Deep Keeping your plants consistently watered will prevent blossom end rot, those oddly shaped … Read more
Acrid Arugula
First time growing arugula? It’s pretty darn easy and even easier in a pot! Grown in pots, arugula is great as a border green to protect the sweeter leaves such as basil and spinach. Because of it’s acrid nature, little pests will bite down with dismay and fly away, not to return. Arugula really is … Read more
