Mushroom Growing at Home – Fungi Fun
I’m not going to lie. Mushrooms are one of my favorite foods, right up there with beef jerky and French’s onion dip. After all, stuffed mushroom caps can’t be beat for a quick, easy, and …
Written by: Lauren
Gardening
A Garden for the Birds
Lucky for us, we’ve been snuggly warm indoors this winter. Through our window though, we’ve watched little birds perched in our crab apple trees. They sit all fluffed up trying to keep warm and nourished …
Written by: Amy
Seed Starting Indoors – A Money Saving Idea
It’s the time of the year when avid gardeners everywhere start organizing their seed collections and begin attempting to get everything lined up for the upcoming growing season. The only trouble is that in most …
Written by: Lauren
How to Build a Potting Bench For Pots, Not Pot
Gardeners these days have to be careful about what we say. We can innocently be chatting with a stranger about how totally addicted we are to growing and getting the pot all ready to go, …
Written by: Amy
DIY Discussion, Gardening, Landscaping, Resources
Turn Your Yard into a Food Forest
Thankfully, spring is approaching. It’s time to start thinking about your yard!! This year, consider this. Would you like to mow less? Water less? Use less expensive and potentially dangerous chemicals? How about going out …
Written by: Rich
Recycle Potting Soil – A Money Saving Option
Potting soil is expensive and having to constantly purchase more can be something of an irritation. After all, we gardeners would much rather be spending our hard earned cash on new and exotic plants to …
Written by: Lauren
DIY Discussion, Gardening, Green
Kids Gardens – They Plan the Darndest Things
There’s a touch of cabin fever going around our house. The ground is completely frozen outside, so we’re dreaming of sunny days and springtime weather. To shake the winter doldrums this week, we took a …
Written by: Amy
DIY Discussion, Gardening, Green
Seed Catalogs That Brighten Your Winter
Winter is a fun time to be a gardener. I know, that may sound strange… What can a gardener do in the winter? IT’S COLD OUTSIDE! Yes, I know! In several previous articles I have …
Written by: Rich
Doomed or Dormant Plants – A Winter Tale
Even those of us who know that some of our perennials go dormant in the winter can fall prey to worrying about certain specimens after cooler temperatures arrive and the plants begin to show it. We find ourselves poking …
Written by: Lauren
Overwintering Plants – Keeping Your Garden Happy
You win some; you lose some. It’s a good philosophy to keep in mind when bringing container plants indoors for the winter. Of course, there are always the specimens that you mistake for dead every year because …
Written by: Lauren