In the gardening world, winter is not considered the most exciting time of the year. In many places, snow covers the ground and gardeners stay indoors thumbing through seed catalogs dreaming about...
Purslane (Portulca oleracea), also known as Pigweed, Little Hogweed or Verdolagas, is cropping up everywhere in my cultivated areas right now. Instead of viewing it as a pesky weed though, I have...
A strawberry patch can be pretty low maintenance if it is periodically kept weeded and mulched. But if left untended, your strawberry patch can become overgrown and unproductive. Luckily it’s...
I like to graze in my garden. Yesterday while pulling weeds, I stopped and ate almost every single flower off a young borage plant growing at the end of a bed of carrots and peas. The flowers are...
Humans have a natural aversion to spiders, and for good reason. Not only are they creepy crawly buy some are extremely venomous. Fortunately or unfortunately the really nasty ones (brown recluse...
A night blooming garden on a warm summer evening is an experience for the senses. Flowers that bloom at night tend to me more fragrant than those that bloom in daylight. In a night blooming garden...
Since you can’t eat the leaves of rhubarb, here are two ideas on how to use them–make an aphid spray or use the whole leaf to make a seedling protector! Rhubarb leaves are poisonous...
If you don’t mind doing a little digging this time of year, making your own Echinacea Tincture is seriously easy and way cheaper than what you will pay at the store. There are nine species of...
As August turns to September, it is a good time to start planning and planting fall crops. The following is a list of planting tips that can help you have success growing edibles well into the...
Sunchoke or Jerusalem Artichoke, Sunroot, Lambchoke, Topinambur, Girasol, Girasole, or Gerasole (Helianthus tuberosus) is a beautiful hardy perennial plant that is native to North America and has a...