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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How to Grow Peaches N Dreams Double Hollyhocks
A full double blossom with creamy peach coloring on the outside and bright pink centers. These Peaches N Dreams double hollyhocks are a showstopper. People will stop in front of your house just to admire their beauty. I get so many questions and comments on our Peaches N Dreams hollyhocks that I decided to do a quick post about these beautiful flowers. We ordered these gorgeous, double blossom peachy pink hollyhock seeds from t.c. Hardware on Amazon. I planted these flowers in April 2017 (we are a zone 4-5). That summer they put out leaves but did not get tall or blossom because Hollyhocks are a Biennial. They were watered…
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The Best How To Guide To Propagate Lavender From Cuttings
The most amazing this about plants is that you can take a cutting of them and propagate it to a new little plant with the same DNA as the plant you cut it from. To propagate lavender you only need 3 things, soil, rooting hormone, and a cutting of lavender. True to Variety The only way that you can know what type of lavender you are planting is by taking a cutting from a known variety of the plant. You can plant lavender from seed but then you get all different unknown varieties. This doesn’t work if you are selling your lavender and need to know its properties either for…
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Top 10 Best Selling Garden-Friendly Fashion For Your Wardrobe
Garden in style with these beautiful clothing selections
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What is the Best Fertilizer and How To Use It
Sometimes knowing what fertilizer to use for what can be overwhelming. I know when I first started learning about all the different things you can add to your soil I thought I’d never understand it all. What is Fertilizer The great thing about your own garden is that once you know what your garden needs then you can just focus on that instead of trying to understand everything. Over the years we’ve tried hundreds of different fertilizers and we’ve found a good balance for our particular soil. The first thing you need to do is test your soil. I use these testers. Once you’ve found out you soil composition you…
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Top 5 Most Brilliant Ways to Save Money on Gardening
Gardening can be an expensive hobby. But it doesn’t have to be. In fact, gardening should be virtually free if you do it the old fashioned way. These top ten brilliant hacks can help you save money gardening. Here are a few different routes to take when considering a budget friendly garden. Ask a Gardener First, consider asking gardening neighbors for seeds or extra plants. Gardeners are notoriously generous when it comes to plants. I know I personally plant too many seeds in the spring and then I don’t have enough room for all my plants. I end up giving away seedlings every spring. If you’re looking for perennials then…
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The Best Plants to Plant in Spring and Fall
dependent on your area's Frost Dates and the type of plant you are planting. However, there are some basic answers to the best plants to plant in the Spring and Fall
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How to Harvest Your Lavender From Your Garden
Lavender is an amazingly versatile plant that every gardener needs in their plot. It is medicinal, edible, fragrant and, beautiful. You can do so many things with your lavender. Just look around on our website to see all the many lavender projects and recipes that you can do. It’s already the first part of July and as always time is flying by. We just did our first lavender harvest of the year and we’re so excited to share it with you. The smell of fresh cut lavender is one of the best. I love this time of the year. Lavender This years harvest is from our 2 and 3 years…
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Preserving Green Beans
This years green been crop has been amazing. Every other day I go out and the plants are fully loaded. On Monday Prosper and my mother and I went out to do a down to the ground picking. By which I mean we got down on the ground and picked for about 45 minutes and look at that haul! We planted Hulk bush beans and they have been our best harvest. The beans are huge without being lumpy, starchy, and old. They are fresh and crispy and so yummy. Because we harvested so many we had to bottle them so we can have garden beans all winter long. You can…
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Best Chicken Marinade with Horseradish
Today I’m going to show you one of my favorite chicken marinade recipes and also unveil the secret ingredient… horseradish! Horseradish: The Basics In our kitchen garden we have always grown horseradish. It’s a perennial that’s base gets to be about 6 feet wide so be sure to plant it somewhere it will have lots of room. If your thinking of moving or transplanting your horseradish keep in mind that it is a root plant that is difficult to remove. I was in elementary school when we moved our horseradish, I vividly remember when we transplanted it because it took days! So consider before you make any decisions on planting…
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The Best Guide to Choosing the Right Lavender Varieties
There are so many lavender varieties that it can be a little bit overwhelming to navigate. We are here to help you understand which lavenders to choose for your own garden. Lavender Varieties Let’s start with a really quick basic biology lesson. Lavender is part of the lamiaceae (Lay-mi-a-see-aye) family it’s genus is lavandula and there are 47 know species of the lavandula genus. Okey dokey, so what does that mean? It means that all lavenders are part of the mint family and that there are 47 types of lavender to choose from. And they are all different. Lavindin There are also hybrids of each lavender called lavindins or lavender…
