Learn how to calculate the number of days you have in your growing season and select the best varieties of edibles to make the most of your growing season.
5 Tools Every Gardener Needs and You Do Too
Do you ever go to the hardware store and stop to drool over all the beautiful, shiny gardening tools? It is so easy to get sucked into the newest tool that will change gardening as you know it, that new tool that will do it all, to fill your garden shed with tools that you […]
Fighting Powdery Mildew in your Garden
It’s a lovely late summer afternoon and you are strolling through your garden. While poking through the squash leaves looking for a fresh zucchini, you notice a couple little white spots on a few leaves. A couple days later, you return and notice even more leaves look like someone has sprinkled powdered sugar around. What […]
How To Harvest And Process Your Pears
We love our fruit orchard. We inherited it when we purchased this farm several years ago. There are apple trees, nut trees, pear and peach trees, grapes, black raspberries, blackberries and blueberries. So, we have had to learn alot about fruit and we are continuing to learn all the time. it is that time of […]
How to mulch the garden with grass clippings
Have you ever tried mulching your garden with grass? Weeds are always a big problem for me and my weed barrier fabric was really late getting here this year….so it didn’t get in on time and I was quickly becoming overrun with weeds so I turned to grass clippings to save me from drowning in […]
Why You Need A Vegetable Garden Journal
Gardening is one of those hobbies where you learn the most from your mistakes. To be a better gardener, take the time to learn what works for you and what doesn’t by starting a vegetable garden journal. No matter how much you read and learn, you may not have the same success with the same […]
