There are several opportunities for gardeners to improve their landscape this week at little to no cost: On November 1, visit supermarkets for free straw. Our closest grocery uses straw bales to display pumpkins and then gives them away after Halloween. We use straw to protect our strawberries from frost/thaw heaving, to mix in...
Read more →We cook with garlic almost every day. Did you know that garlic is simple to grow and so delicious when picked right from your yard? It is! The hardest part of growing garlic is that you must plan ahead. Garlic needs to be planted in the fall, overwintered in the ground, and then harvested...
Read more →Tonight, two of Lil’s friends came over for dinner. They could have chosen to play in her playhouse, ride bikes, pretend with her thousands of animal toys, but no. It was digging in the empty garden bed that captured their attention. The plastic shovels held little interest for the little one. He wanted our...
Read more →Many people put their garden beds to rest after the tomatoes have ripened, but that need not be the case. Now is the time to plan and prepare for fall vegetable garden plantings, also called succession planting. It’s a great time to start gardening even if you’ve never grown food for yourself! If you...
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