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Understanding Garden Hardiness Zones for Beginners
When first starting our garden, I endlessly researched what I could plant in my garden hardiness zone. I do suppose you could manage to get most any ...
How to Read a Seed Packet & Sourcing Seeds
Take a dive on all things seeds for spring garden planning: seed types, seed sources and seed starting. They start as tiny specks in your ...
How to Overwinter Tender Annuals
In past posts, we’ve talked about the fall garden providing during the winter but today we chat the bright, spring charm of the overwintered tender ...
Simple & Cost Effective Seed Starting
Take the easy jump into seed starting your herbs, vegetables and flowers with a simple and cost effective set-up. They say chickens are the gateway ...
How to Succession Plant & Make Garden Goals
Goals for flowers, vegetables, expansion and the farmer - it's just January. And so we begin our fourth year growing in the garden! Reflection on the ...
Zone 8a Garden: 12 End of the Year Garden Tasks
August wraps up summer and prepares for the fall. The farmers must roll up their sleeves and prepare for a long chore list while the heat bears down. ...
Bunny Book Club: “Tomatoes for Neela”
Make fresh tomato sauce to top pasta or pizza and then dig into literature with your little with the picture book, "Tomatoes for Neela"! When I ...
Zone 8a Garden: August
August wraps up summer and prepares for the fall. The farmers must roll up their sleeves and prepare for a long chore list while the heat bears down. ...
Zone 8a Winter Garden: Cold, Windy Work
Winter work; it is the planning and foundational grunt work of the year and now is the time to begin! Our first ice storm is descending upon us ...