Homemade Seed Starting Soil Mix Recipe
Seed Starting Soil from the store (or online) can be really expensive, especially if you are starting a lot of plants from seed. Learn how to make your own homemade…
My 2020 Garden Vegetable Varieties
This is a list of the garden vegetable varieties that I am growing in my garden in 2020. I'll give you little snippets of why I chose those varieties for…
Clever Ways to Extend Your Gardening Season
There are many clever ways to extend your gardening season. Below, I will explain the various techniques that can get you up to 6-8 extra weeks of garden productivity. These…
Finding Joy in the Garden in Fall: Dealing with Harvest Overwhelm
Learn how to find joy in the garden in fall, despite struggling with frantic feelings of urgency to get everything done in the garden and often dealing with harvest overwhelm.…
How to Make Your Own Compost
Learn how to make your own compost. Making compost is a wonderfully sustainable way to make healthy soil for your garden from your own kitchen scraps and livestock/yard waste. This…
The Benefits of Gardening: A Gardener’s Reflection
Let's talk about the benefits of gardening. Here's a list of 7 gardening benefits that I personally think are what makes gardening extra special and important. This is my second article…
How to Grow Asparagus
Learn how to grow Asparagus. Asparagus is a wonderful vegetable to add to your gardens. Not only is fresh garden asparagus taste WAY better than the asparagus from the store,…
The Insanity of Spring: A Gardener’s Reflection
This is the first article for my new Gardener Reflections series. I'm reflecting today on the chaos and insanity of spring when it comes to gardening, as well as how…
How to Make a Homemade Garden Trellis (easy and moveable!)
Learn how to make a homemade garden trellis that is easy to build and moveable. It's the perfect way to do proper crop rotation in your raised beds and/or garden.…
Common Seed Starting Problems (and Solutions!)
Learn about the common seed starting problems that can happen when you start seeds inside. I'll go over the most common seed starting problems and give you practical solutions for…