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 Teach a Child to Garden 3 Best Tips and Tricks
Gardening with a child can be so fun… for them. The mud, the worms, the edible plants, the mud! So. Fun. I do enjoy gardening with my daughter even though it usually means more work. Cleaning said mud, replanting the beans because she decided to walk ON the rows to sing to the plants, potty breaks every ten minutes, and being urgently called away from what I’m doing to come look at a bug or find a worm. It’s all worth it though to be able to teach her the love of gardening and nature. She gets so excited when she pulls vegetables from the garden. And this is probably…
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Best How To Guide to Growing a Salsa Garden
Fresh salsa is the best! And it's so easy to make that growing the ingredients your own back yard just makes sense.
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Pea Fences
Pea Fence BasicsI love the look of cute little pea plants coming up out of the ground. Especially if they are accompanied by some woven or arched pea fences. Every spring, very early spring, I prune our fruit trees and I save the tall straight branches that grow each year. With these branches I build my sweet little pea fences.Build your own!The woven and the arched pea fences together are complimentary to each other and draw the eye. I get so many comments on my pea fences I thought I’d show how easy they are to put togetherThe woven fence starts with the branches stuck into the ground and about…
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Top Four Essential Oil Distillers
I am in search of the best home-use essential oil distiller. Now that may sound like an unnecessary expense in this day and age; why distil your own herbs when you can buy essential oils everywhere? But here are my reasonings: 1. If I make it myself then I know what’s in it, 2. I love a new project, 3. I grow my plants so that I can use them and 4.have you seen the prices of some EOs? They are getting ridiculous. Now, I know that buying a distiller can be pricey. But there are some out there that cost less than a 15ml bottle of Essential Oil and…
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Overwintering Your Lavender Plants
Lavender in the Winter Here in Utah our winters can be cold and dry. And most plants hate that combination but there are some plants that need that hibernation time and some that at least tolerate it. Some Lavender do very well over wintering as long as their roots can stay above -20 degrees Fahrenheit (-29 C) and they get a little water. This year was a very dry winter for our area but our lavender pulled through and is doing fine. Not all Lavender varieties are cold hardy so make sure to choose one that does well in your zone. Believe it or not this bed has 10 healthy little…
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Gardening In Terrible Soil and How to Fix It
I love gardening! It’s something so straight forward and healthy. Growing your own produce allows you to know what exactly goes into the food that you eat. Not to mention the hours of lifting, bending, stretching… I feel like I’ve been on every machine in a gym after a morning gardening. If you are new to gardening start by checking out our 7 Tips to Start a Garden Post. Soil Types One thing I’ve learned to be able to get the best and healthiest plants is to know what kind of soil you have. A simple soil testing kit can help determine what’s going on in your dirt. You can…
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5 Easy Steps to Propagate Your Own Lavender
Propagation in the plant world is the breeding of specimens of a plant by natural processes from the parent stock. Or in other words taking a piece of stem from the parent plant and getting it to make roots to start another plant
