Subject: Growing Lavender?
Growing Lavender?
August 16th, 2022 at 9:10 pm EDTAre you growing lavender? If not and you're wondering about the best growing conditions for lavender, and whether it's an annual or perennial, this should help. If you are, we'd love to hear from your experience! Any challenges, solutions, successes? ...
Microgreens vs. Sprouts
August 14th, 2022 at 10:37 pm EDTKnowing the difference between microgreens and sprouts, will help you make a more informed decision about which one you will want to grow and consume. Are you growing either of these? We'd love to hear your experience and perspective!Differences Bet ...
Birds That Eat Ticks and Fleas
August 13th, 2022 at 12:54 pm EDTGARDEN GREETINGS! If you're raising fowl, you probably already know this benefit. There are a few others too. Today in our yard and garden, we're:Limbing trees... (they're reclaiming our house into the woods, so pushing back a little and opening up s ...
Honey - An Elixir for Health and Healing!
August 12th, 2022 at 12:45 pm EDTGARDEN GREETINGS! We're drying passion leaves today and excited that the okra is beginning to come in. What are you up to in your garden? Honey – an Ancient RemedyThe benefits of honey have been in use throughout the world for eons, long before sci ...
Black Chokeberries - Aronia Melanocarpa
August 10th, 2022 at 5:04 pm EDTGarden Greetings, Friend! When two different GardensAll community members mentioned being excited about starting to grow aronia berries, also called chokeberries, we took that as a sign that it's time to look into it. Now we're sharing here what we l ...
Proven Plants That Repel Ticks and Fleas
August 5th, 2022 at 7:52 pm EDTGARDEN GREETINGS! Ticks and fleas haven't been that bad in our yard and garden the past couple years. We have a healthy wildlife balance going that must be helping, and we're also growing a number or plants not favored by ticks. So we'll be planting ...
Easiest Fruit Trees to Grow
August 3rd, 2022 at 8:40 pm EDTGARDEN GREETINGS! What are you favorite easiest growing fruit trees? We'd love to hear what you like about growing them and also what makes them easy and we can add them to our list. It was a sweltering day but deliciously cool this morning at 69°F. ...
👩🏻🌾The Dreaded Squash Vine Borer 👨🏻🌾
August 2nd, 2022 at 12:40 pm EDT👨🏻🌾GREETINGS FROM OUR GARDEN OFFICE! 👩🏻🌾 Well... we had to sacrifice a few squash plants that the squash vine borers (SVB) got to before we did. We got busy and just didn't catch it in time, but were able to treat the other pl ...
🍅 Split Tomatoes 🍅
August 1st, 2022 at 9:04 am EDTGARDEN GREETINGS🌱 In mid-summer, our backyard garden looks pretty wild. Guessing you can relate? It’s also a time of year that our tomatoes can end up looking less than perfect, especially the cracks. But what causes split tomatoes in the garden ...