I love Botanical Interest Seeds. They have the highest quality seed in the most beautiful and informative seed packets on the market. They include art, garden history, landscape ideas, organic gardening know-how, recipes, fun facts, and of course, high-quality seed. Winter is the perfect time to dream of next year’s garden and if you have…
Growing Herbs
Herbs are some of the easiest plants to grow, and are a great way for the beginning gardener to start growing their own fresh food. And, there is no comparison in taste to herbs gathered fresh from the garden and those that you buy at the grocery store. You can also grow herbs that you…
Bottle Trees For the Garden
When you like junk, and your friends know it, you often receive calls asking if you want some things, because they are “cleaning out”. So, when a friend called asking if I wanted some old bottles, I didn’t hesitate to say yes! I have had a bottle tree in my basement since last summer waiting…
How to Revive an Overgrown Garden Part One
I am embarassed to show this eyesore of a garden. I’m not sure how it got so out of control. A busy summer of working, teaching classes, and tending my own vegetable garden, allowed me to keep putting this perennial garden on the backburner. It is right beside the drive way coming into my house….
Fall Garden Vegetable List
Here’s a handy Fall Garden Vegetable List you can print out and take with you to the fall plant sales. Plan your garden first, determine how much space you will need, then purchase what you need. Tips: Some fall vegetables such as cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, and brussel sprouts have a longer time to maturity, and…
4 Steps to Create A Versatile Garden
I have been growing vegetable gardens for years, but I feel I’ve neglected creating the inviting space that has been missing in my yard. I hope to take time during the winter months this year to take a course in garden design and incorporate some of the ideas in the following contributed post that offers…
Ham and Collard Soup
If you had asked me two weeks ago if I liked collards, that would have been a NO!. I really can’t tell you why, maybe it was the collards and bacon grease my grandfather made when I was young. Or was that turnip greens? Either way, I was convinced I didn’t like collard greens, and…
Printable Recipe Binder
July and August are all about harvesting in the garden. You may have had such a bountiful harvest that you preserved some of it by freezing and canning. Or like me, still have summer vegetables still waiting to be harvested as you plan your fall garden. Now you need a place store all of your…
How to Attract Toads and Frogs to Your Garden
Do you want toads in the garden? Yes! Toads make great gardening partners. They help reduce the pest population in your garden and are a valuable organic tool in your arsenal of pest control weapons. Did you know they can eat as many as 10,000 mosquitoes during the summer season? But mosquitoes aren’t all they…
Improve Your Garden Soil with Natural Nutrients
It’s August, and the garden has worked hard all summer. We have had unbearable heat and humidity here in North Georgia. I’ve replanted squash and green beans for a late harvest, but my cucumbers and first squash plants have been harvested and are ready to be removed from the garden. They are both heavy feeders…
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