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I love winter. It’s the best season for getting prepared for a new gardening season. I love to cuddle up by a fire, drink some tasty hot chocolate, drool over my favorite gardening catalogs, and plan my future garden. It’s a lovely, peaceful season for dreaming about possible future garden productivity. However, I do NOT…
It’s that time of year. Time to think about clever, cute, and/or funny gift ideas for your loved ones (or for yourself!). Here is a list of 6 gift ideas for gardeners. I tried to focus on just a few very specific gift ideas that I think gardeners will LOVE. Feel free to add other…
This year, my garden was much MUCH better. Unlike last year’s fiasco. Thank goodness. However, even though this year’s harvest was a happy thing, I still learned plenty of lessons from my summer garden. So I thought I would share them with you all. Feel free to tell me about YOUR summer garden in the…
How to Preserve Green Beans (4 ways) How does your garden grow? Unlike last year’s fiasco, I have a lovely thriving garden this year. True, my tomatoes and peppers did not grow past seedlings (possibly due to faulty soil mix?), so I have very few tomatoes and peppers this year. However, I DO have loads…
Welcome to my Spice Series! This is about How to Grow Saffron. Click here to learn more about saffron. Click here to see the rest of my Spice Series. Enjoy! How to Grow Saffron Saffron is the world’s most expensive spice. It has beautiful golden-red threads and a pound of dried saffron goes for about…
Learn practical tips for how to plan your garden. Planning your garden doesn’t have to be stressful, and doing it properly will actually help you have a more satisfying, less-stressful garden season. Confession: I am a planner-person. I am most happy when I can plan out my day/week/month/year and then follow through with those plans/goals….
If you’re wondering why certain plants struggle in your garden, why other people have better harvests, or why your plants aren’t fruiting at all then you need to do a soil test. Don’t worry, it’s easy! Learn how to properly test your soil so you can have the healthiest garden possible. How to Properly Test…
High Quality Seed Companies for the Organic Gardener You know you’re an obsessed gardener when…. **The holidays are barely over and you immediately start researching your future garden. 🙂 Yep, it’s time to start researching, choosing, and buying seeds for the gardens! Woohoo! I seriously love every season for gardening — spring’s energy, summer’s hard…
How to Recover from a Poor Gardening Season Remember my ‘Spring in Abundance‘ post? The one where I gushed about my beautiful garden? Well, things can sure change quickly. This has been a frustrating Summer Season for my poor garden. It’s one of those seasons where it seems like everything that can go wrong is going…
Learn how to use cover crops in the garden. Any time from Fall to early winter is the perfect time to cover your garden soil with cover crops. I’ll also explain some of the more popular types of cover crops, how they differ from each other, how to plant cover crops, and what you need…