How Much Can You Grow in a 4×4 Garden This Spring? Have you ever thought, I’d love to grow vegetables, but I just don’t have the time or space? What if I told you that in just 16 square feet—a 4×4 garden bed—you could grow a spring garden with room for fresh herbs, flowers, and…
Extend Your Garden Harvest with Cold Frames: DIY and Store-Bought Tips
Cold frames are a great solution if you are looking to extend your growing season into late fall, winter, and even early spring. Cold frames act like a mini-greenhouse, to protect plants from frost, retain warmth, and allow you to harvest fresh vegetables well past the typical growing season. What is a Cold Frame? A…
7 Must-Have Gardening Tools
Gardening is more than just tossing seeds in the soil and hoping for the best. Just like any project, it requires the right tools to maintain it. Here are 7 essential items to make your gardening easier. Smart Watering Systems: While a good garden hose or watering can are perfectly fine tools, a smart watering…
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….
Using Ollas in the Garden
When Mary Kathyrn Dunston with Dripping Springs Ollas reached out to me to try her Ollas in my garden, the first thing I thought was “what is an Olla” ? Ollas are unglazed, porous, terracotta pots placed near the roots of a plant to provide irrigation as needed. They are perfect for containers, and several…
Printable Garden Planner
I’m ready to get out and play in the dirt. We had a rain free day over the weekend, and I cleaned out my butterfly garden, and planted gladiolas and yarrow. My new raised bed is planted with strawberries, and the smaller second one is ready for lettuce seeds. Perennial plants are popping up and…