Fall is the time of the year when many gardeners start thinking about the best methods to prepare their gardens,and lawns for the coming winter months. Even if you know your average first frost, you need to be ready for an unexpected, sudden frost or unseasonably freezing temperatures. Many of your plants, such as annual…
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 Keep Your Garden Looking Beautiful
If you are like most people, you take great pride in your garden. You may spend a lot of time in your garden to keep it looking good , but even the most meticulous gardeners can sometimes struggle with keeping their garden looking it’s best. I know my flower beds can often “get out of…
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 good organic tool to add to your arsenol of weapons in pest control. Did you know they can eat as many 10,000 mosquitoes during the summer season? But mosquitoes aren’t…
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…
What Can You Plant in the Vegetable Garden In July
July is a time for harvesting, and every visit to the garden now results in cucumbers, squash, or little sun gold tomatoes. During the hot summer heat, you may not be thinking about new plants. But July in the garden is not just about harvesting, it is still time to plant. As you harvest some…
Cucumber Tomato and Onion Summer Salad
It’s been a steamy start to July. I was working in the yard when darkening skies and a clap of thunder sent me and the dogs hurrying back inside. I was hoping for rain so I wouldn’t have to rain the garden tomorrow and we received a good soaking rain. When I stepped outside on…
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