Having a successful garden requires several things. Creating a healthy soil, placing your garden where it gets at least 6 hours of sun a day (8-10 is better), and choosing the right plant for the right season. But once you have carefully placed your plants and seeds in the soil, it doesn’t stop there. Your…
Printable Strawberry Recipe Card
If you have read my previous post Tips on Growing Strawberries, you know I love strawberries! Strawberry jam, strawberry smoothies, strawberry shortcake! And where am I going to keep all those great strawberry recipes? I have created a downloadable, printable strawberry recipe page for your recipe book. I prefer to keep mine in a binder,…
Tips for Growing Strawberries
I love fresh strawberries from the garden as a snack, or to put in my salad. Strawberry shortcake, strawberry shakes, and oh so many uses for strawberries. Follow these simple tips for growing strawberries, and you’ll be eating fresh strawberries in no time. Strawberries fresh from the garden taste much better than the ones you…
How to Grow Peas
Peas thrive in cool weather, and one of the first vegetables you can sow outdoors in early spring. If you haven’t grown peas in your garden before you are in for a treat. My garden wouldn’t be complete without sugar snap peas growing on the trellis in my raised bed. If the weather co-operates, I…
What a Seed Packet Can Tell You
You can spend a lot of time trying to find out when and how to plant vegetables in your garden. You don’t have to look further than your seed packet. Here’s just a few things you can learn from it. Many seed packets are now labeled Non GMO as an answer to customer’s concerns about…
Thrift Shop Seed Packet Makeover
I dropped a few things off at our local thrift store last week. I try to drop them off at the desk and walk straight back out. That’s because my goal is to clean out, instead of bring in!. What’s my rule? Take 5 things to the thrift store, and you can bring one back…
Planning Your Garden Projects
January is all about garden planning. If you are like me, you have all sorts of ideas and projects in your head that you want for your garden. Sometimes they just stay there….in your head. You get caught up in all the things you want, how much will it cost, how do I get started,…
Holiday Fragrance
I start my Christmas decorating after Thanksgiving, and love to have the fragrance of the Holiday to fill the air. Add a little Christmas music, and let the decorating begin! This holiday fragrance potpourri, simmered on the stove, makes the house smell wonderful. You can make a large batch, and package some to place in…
Herbal Dream Pillows
According to Jim Long in his book “Making Herbal Dream Pillows”, dream pillows were once called comfort pillows, and were used in sickrooms to “ease the nightmares that may come with medicine, and the smell of illness.” Little herbal dream pillows were made with calming herbs such as lavender to help ease the sleep of…
Tips on Growing Garlic
I’ve decided to use one of my raised beds to grow garlic this fall. Since this is my first time growing garlic, we’ll learn together if you’ve never grown it either. Planting garlic in one of your beds is a commitment to space because garlic planted in the fall will be harvested in the summer….
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