When To Plant Your Garden
Once you’ve built your garden, created a layout, and prepped the soil, you can go buy seeds and plants, and put it all in at once, right? Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. Plants can be...
Category: Plant
New USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map
The USDA has just come out with a new Plant Hardiness Zone Map. This map was last updated in 1990, and now about half the cities are in a warmer zone than before. Some...
Spring Gardening Checklist
So you’ve created your garden plan (I hope!) and it’s time to prepare your garden for planting. Here’s a list of items TO DO and the tools you may need to get the job...
Share Your Garden Plan
Every spring I get lots of emails asking for feedback on garden plans. It’s something I enjoy doing, and I especially love to be able to post it for all to see. I want...
Starting Seeds Indoors–Is it worth it?
If you’ve never done it before, you might be asking yourself “Why would I start seeds indoors?” and “Will I save money starting seeds indoors?” Why Start Seeds Indoors? In other words, why can’t...
Fall Planting Schedule!
Drum roll please . . . after much blood, sweat, and tears, I am proud to announce my new Fall Planting Schedule!!! The newsletter sign up now has room to indicate both your spring...
Gardening Patterns
Spring-Summer-Fall The most typical gardening pattern for North America is the Spring-Summer-Fall (S-S-F) gardening season. These gardeners have a spring frost date (the average date of the last spring frost) and a fall frost...
Types of Plants–Very Tender, Tender, Semi-Hardy and Hardy
Plants can be divided into several types depending on how well they tolerate cold, freezing temperatures, and frost. Hardy plants require less light (3-6 hours of direct sun), can tolerate hard frost, and grow...
Organizing Your Seeds
This is a picture I took in front of my happy place–the seed aisle. I love shopping for seeds. The packages are so colorful, offering hope of beautiful and delicious home grown vegetables. I...
Creating A (Square Foot) Garden Plan
Whether you are doing a traditional or square foot garden, having a plan helps everything run more smoothly. Here is a simple outline for creating your square foot garden plan. I love using Excel,...
