Vacationers Garden Survival Guide
Camping or heading off to foreign climes? Lucky you! But what about your garden? Gardens are sort of like children in summer. Busy and full of work. You can’t take …
A lot of what we cook comes straight out of our garden and greenhouse. Cooking fresh organic produce, or eating it raw in salads and green juice is very healthy. We enjoy our garden projects and time together keeping our crops healthy.
Homegrown Food:
Gardening, like all parts of homemade food is a creative, project based family affair. Kids learn amazing things in the garden. We taught our kids how to work; nature science, delayed satisfaction and the value of eating healthy, properly prepared high quality meals. Meanwhile, we all sweated together, weeding and growing our seasons fresh food out in our garden.
Dave Built us a totally awesome greenhouse to replace his ever ripping, tattered, thrown together old tomato house. Our greenhouse is a vital producer of our tomatoes and peppers. We start Fresh tomatoes and peppers in early spring and grow them clear through to late fall. Our growing season for all vegetables has lengthened since we start all our seeds months earlier in the greenhouse!
Easy DIY Strawberry Towers Tutorial
DIY Strawberry Towers are ideal for small space garden areas. These towers are Perfect for patios with a tiny footprint and the handy vertical structure makes for easy pickings. These DIY …
How to Grow Asparagus-Ultimate Success Guide
Grow asparagus for a perennial crop of spring green delicacies. Plant a bed of asparagus in your garden for a permanent crop. You’ll harvest asparagus for many many years with …
9 Tips For Gardening Success
Are you a beginner gardener? Have you gardened and found it overwhelming, disappointing or frustrating? These 9 tips for Gardening Success are VITAL to attain your best gardening experience. Follow …
Taking Stock of the Garden
The Fall harvest right through the dead Winter months are a great time to evaluate your garden. Go ahead and Dream a little. What would really improve your garden experience? …
Fall Garden Harvest and Planting Tips
Fall Garden harvest is NOW! Is it also Time to get out your Fall Garden chore list and prep the garden for next spring? …OR…Can you continue the growing season …
Grow Healthy Leeks easily in your Garden
Grow healthy Leeks in your garden for an easy to plant, trouble free crop. Enjoy this mild flavored delicious Allium. Leeks provide a wonderful flavor in many recipes and are …
Organic Controls For Aphids
All gardeners eventually battle aphids in the home garden. Here are some ideas and methods to control these pests without breaking out the toxic bug spray. Welcome Back to …
Five Bushes To Attract and Support Birds In Your Yard
Five Bushes To Attract and Support Birds In Your Yard. Provide food and habitat for your local birds. Plant bushes they love! Dave and I live in bird heaven. Hundreds …
Simple Container Gardening Tips
Enjoy Container Gardening. There is so much to love about a bright grouping of flowers on a porch, patio or front step. T his dismal late spring has us all …
Five Tips For Pollinator Garden Success
Five Tips For Pollinator Garden Success. Growing a pollinator garden encourages and supports the drastically declining wild and domestic populations of pollinators. Attracting bees, butterflies and birds is a fun …
Growing Rhubarb in your garden
Growing rhubarb in your garden provides you with an easy to grow perennial that makes the most wonderful piquant recipes. It freezes well too. We have a clump of rhubarb …