Gardening Tips
Professional gardening tips on how to grow a vegetable garden. How to prepare soil, to water, design and care for your plants. Also, our favorite plant varieties and plant brands.
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Grow Your Own Veggies: A Step-by-Step Guide to Starting Seeds Indoors for a Bountiful Harvest
Starting vegetable seeds indoors is an excellent way to get a head start on your vegetable garden.
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The Best Way to Grow and Use Cucumbers
Cucumbers are a tender crisp vegetable with a high water content that thrive in tropical environments. They need lots of heat, sun, and water. the fruit are long, slender, and edible with seeds on the inside that are also edible. They are grown around the world as an annual plant. Cucumbers are an interesting vegetable because of their variety of uses. Usually when we talk about the benefits of a certain vegetable we are talking about internally or medicinally. With cucumbers their benefits are external and internal and they are just yummy! Types of Cucumber There are two types of growth patterns for cucumbers. Bush and Trailing. Both have their…
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3 Of The Best Ways to Use Thai Basil
Plant an herb basket Coconut Red Curry Soup Propagate for more plants One of the best ways to use basil plants is to cook with them fresh. Basil is a tender plant that dries well but is not used for crafting like its woody counterparts i.e. rosemary, lavender, and sage. It is technically a perennial but only in tropical areas that stay hot and humid. So for us poor Northerners basil is only an annual. Sad! But not the end of the world…quite. Overwintering Basil This tender herb needs to be brought indoors near the end of September or October depending on your Last Frost Date. If you are not…
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How to Plant Guide: Thai Basil Care and Use
Thai Basil (Ocimum basilicum var. thyrsiflora) is a cultivar of the basil plant. A member of the mint family, its flavor is sweet, similar to sweet basil but with hints of anise, black licorice and spicy cinnamon. It has dark green leaves lightly variegated with a dark burgundy purple color where they branch off from the dark purple stem. The leaves are more narrow and pointed and the veins more prominent than in its sister Sweet Basil plant. The blossoms are dark purple to pale pink, lavender in color. Where Does Thai Basil Come From It is a type of basil used typically in Southeast Asia. It has been around for thousands…
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What is the Top Culinary Lavender
What is Lavender Lavender is an herb plant that is native to the Mediterranean and Western European areas. It was cultivated and spread around Europe for its many benefits and beauty. Since the 1500’s lavender has been a garden staple for many around the world. Lavender is used for its culinary, medicinal, and hygienic properties. Today we are talking specifically about its culinary properties so we can get to know this herb and its benefits. What is Culinary Lavender If you are looking for a different flavor to add to your recipes look no further that lavender. Culinary lavender is a cooking lavender. Recipes like roasted chicken, creme brûlée, lemonade,…
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Top 7 Tips to Start a Garden
Are you overwhelmed with where to start in gardening? Do you need help knowing how to make a garden or what plants to grow? this article will help you understand the basics of where to start.
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Protect Your Herbs This Winter, Here are 7 ways.
Do you want to have fresh herbs year round but live in an area that has cold, hard winters? You need a way to protect your herbs over winter. I love fresh herbs in all of my recipes so over the years I have tried many overwintering methods and weeded out the ones that just won’t do. What is Overwintering Overwintering is the process by which some organisms pass through or wait out the winter, or pass through that period of the year when winter conditions make normal activity or even survival difficult or near impossible. In some cases winter is characterized not necessarily by cold but by dry conditions; passing…
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11 Mistakes to Avoid When Building Raised Garden Beds
There are so many methods of building raised garden beds that it’s hard to decide which method is best. In this article we will discuss the top 11 mistakes people make when converting their garden to raised beds, and how you can avoid them. The First thing you need to consider when deciding whether to convert your garden into a raised garden bed is what you want to make your raised bed out of. There are so many options out there. The deciding factor really will be your preference and the price. You can build a raised bed from scrap wood and save money, but consider first how long you…
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How to Convert Your Sprinklers to Drip Irrigation
Why is my lavender dying? Why we converted our overhead sprinklers to drip line irrigation.
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9 Best Vegetables to Grow in a Small Garden
The best 9 vegetables to grow in a small garden that will save time and money. When you don’t have lots of room to garden you have to choose wisely what you really need to grow. Most people stick with the vegetables that they know already but, here are some vegetables that you may not have thought of when planning your small garden. 1. Artichokes We live in a pretty difficult growing climate (cold, clay, desert) but I can grow artichokes so I bet you can too. The amazing thing about Artichoke is that it is perennial which means you only have to plant it once and it comes back…
