Learning how to start a new garden can feel overwhelming, but creating a productive growing space is simpler than you might think. While choosing a ...
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Cover Crops: A Complete Guide to Building Healthy Garden Soil
Cover crops are an excellent tool to have in your pocket for building healthy soil and covering the ground so the weeds don’t. They’re simple to use: ...
What is “Bolting” and How Do You Prevent it?
There comes a point in the garden, especially here in the South, when everything seems to shift at once. The days stretch longer, the warmth settles ...
Everything You Need for an Indoor Seed Starting Set-up
The garden is at rest, but setting up an indoor seed starting set-up prepares small seedlings for their big year ahead. For anyone with the garden ...
10 Gardening Activities to do with Kids
Start spring and summer with gardening activities for kids of all ages to invite them into the creative and exploratory days of the ...
Nature Education Books for Kids
Start learning and exploring the big outdoors with the little ones around you with 30+ educational picture books for nature walks, homeschooling and ...
10 Books for the Gardener
Learn the ins, outs and nuances of gardening with excellent teaching and vivid imagery with our favorite books for the gardener. When someone first ...
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 ...