Gardening

Free Online Garden Planners

Figure out what to plant and where to plant it with free online garden planners. Before you turn over any dirt, turn on your computer and check out these resources for designing your garden:

Time to Start Planning Your Garden

by Jessica 0 comments

If you are an experienced gardener, you know that there are some seeds you need to start indoors NOW in order for them to be ready to be planted. Don’t worry too much if you didn’t get those March items planted indoors already, you may still have enough time. A majority on this list do [...]

Garden Season Finale: Frost is Here

by Christina Brown 2 comments

We’ve started to have some frost here at night, and the days are definitely getting cooler. A good cheapskate would dutifully cover my two little garden plots each night and sweeze a little bit more growth out of them, but I’m not bothering. It was a weird summer. First cold and really wet, then hot [...]

The No-Stress Guide to Starting a Compost Pile

by Jessica 5 comments

Compost is an organic material that is made up of many kitchen scraps, lawn & garden refuse, paper products, and/or manure. Composting is a great way to cut down on the amount of trash you pay to get rid of & you may even be able to get a smaller trash bin and save money, [...]

Dealing With an Abundance of Zucchini

by Christina Brown 6 comments

I’m no gardening expert, but I have learned a couple of things about zucchini: A few zucchini plants produce A LOT of zucchini. When there’s a lot of zucchini, it’s hard to even give it away. It’s a good thing August 8 is “Sneak Some Zucchini onto Your Neighbor’s Porch Night” just so those of [...]

Gardening: An Exercise in Patience

by Christina Brown 3 comments

Well, after I was lamenting earlier this week that nothing in my garden was doing well, the weather got slightly cooler, and things took a turn for the better. I found a patch of wild raspberries on our property just west of where they were last year. (Apparently, I wasn’t looking in the right spot [...]

Garden Update: It’s Too Darn Hot

by Christina Brown 6 comments

For those who know me, it’s not much of a secret that I don’t have much of a green thumb. I’ve been known to kill even the heartiest of houseplants. Despite that, I still managed to have some mild gardening success last year. I figured I must have been doing something right, so I kept [...]

A Garden Full of Possibilities

by Christina Brown 4 comments

My “Get it Done” project for this month was supposed to be a compost bin. The closest I got to accomplish this project was the big pile of lawn clippings and leaves I raked up earlier this month. I’ve had the compost project on my calendar for months, and it’s been on my to-do list [...]

Getting It Done: Backyard Pond and Garden

by Guest Posting 1 comment

The following is a guest post from loyal reader Sandra Taylor, who was inspired by our year-long vow to get those projects done that we’ve been putting off. I am notorious for shopping the roadside junk piles around trash day. One great find was a pond liner. I wasn’t even sure if it had a [...]

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