Gardening

• Container Gardening – Don’t let lack of space keep you from gardening! Read on to learn how to grow successfully in containers. Read more →
• Starting a Garden – Let us share some tips with you on how, and why, to start your own garden, and provide some helpful resources too. Read more →
• Growing Cut Flowers – Having beautiful flowers available for cutting is always a pleasure. And by cutting your flowers, you help encourage continuous blooms throughout the season as well. Read more →
• Perennial Grasses – When you think about your perennial gardens, does grass come to mind? Well, perennial grasses are not for the birds… or are they? Read more →
• Deer Resistant Plants – Oh deer….It happens to the best of us. Adorable little Bambi creeps out every spring and fills up on the tender shoots and leaves of our favorite plants. What should you do? Read more →
• Dahlia Tubers – Don’t be intimidated by planting a tuber; it’s easier than growing the plants from seed. Read more →
• Soil Testing – Soil fertility is an important part of maintaining a healthy garden. To best manage your soil fertility, start with a simple soil test. Read more →
• Compost: Turn food waste into soil nutrients! – Compost is an important soil amendment made of decomposed plant matter including food scraps. You can make right it in your backyard! With the right recipe, your compost heap will not omit bad odors, will lighten the load (and cost) of your trash, and will greatly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from landfills. Adding compost to soil helps to restore the organic matter content allowing for greater moisture and nutrient retention and providing necessary food for essential microorganisms that live in healthy soil. Read more →
• Calendula Seed Saving – Calendula are such beautiful flowers and are very easy for saving seeds! Read more →
• Dry Bean Seed Saving – Saving seed from dry beans could not be easier! Read more →