Tips for Growing Basil from the Supermarket (Plants for Free!)
Keep pots of basil alive by planting the strongest plants into their own pots. Growing basil from the supermarket is…
Kitchen Gardening
Pricking out Tomato Seedlings and potting them up
You’ve sowed the seeds. Now it’s time to plant tomato seedlings into their own pots. Tips on pricking out tomato…
Growing Tomatoes from Seed: Sowing times, compost, and instructions
Homegrown tomatoes from seed to bountiful harvest Tips on growing tomatoes from seed. Covers where to get heirloom seeds, how…
How to grow Pumpkins the Easy Way
The trick to growing pumpkins is to choose the right varieties, prepare the soil and to start with purchased seeds….
How to Build a Blackberry Trellis: a simple way to grow thornless blackberries
Wood, wire, and eyelet screws are all you need to build a simple blackberry trellis. This is an inexpensive way to grow thornless blackberries in the vegetable garden. There’s a video showing how I built mine at the end of this piece.
Visiting a Prison Vegetable Garden: how growing vegetables is helping prison inmates find a new path
suA different kind of walled garden A tour of a prison vegetable garden, a look at how the produce is…
How to grow Alpine Strawberries
Alpine Strawberry plants produce tiny sweet berries Tips on how to grow alpine strawberries. These fruit plants are either wild…
10 Water Saving Tips for the Vegetable Garden
Water-saving tips for the vegetable garden and container plants, including when to water, how to hand water, using ollas, collecting…
April Gardening: Gardena Vertical Planter, Seedlings, & planting Sweet Peas
Preparing the Garden for Summer Planting a Gardena Vertical Planter, an update on seedlings growing at home, and planting the…