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Four Tips for Growing Your Best Watermelons
July 31, 2019 /0 Comments/in Gardening Tips, Seed Starting, Vegetable Gardens, Watering /by Mike Wadeby Heather Stone If you have space, make room for a hill or two of watermelons in your garden. They are easy to grow and like any fruit and vegetable, they just taste better when they are plucked straight from the garden. Besides, nothing says summer quite like a juicy slice of watermelon. Here […]
OUR ULTIMATE MILKWEED GROWING GUIDE
June 27, 2019 /0 Comments/in Butterflies, Gardening Tips, Monarch Butterflies, Planting, Seed Starting /by Mike Wadeby Sam Doll Some tips for planting and growing Milkweed successfully Milkweeds are hardy, perennial wildflowers found throughout North America. Some species can grow up to six feet tall and they produce beautiful, fragrant flower clusters. Since they’re common ingredients in traditional medicine, their genus name, Asclepias, comes from the Greek god of medicine. Milkweed […]
Nasturtiums!
June 4, 2019 /0 Comments/in Annuals, Garden Inspiration, Planting, Seed Starting /by Mike Wadeby Heather Stone The bright, rich colors of nasturtium flowers make an impact along the edge of the border, in a pot or climbing a wall or trellis. Their gorgeous rounded leaves, much like a water lily, are a vibrant shade of green with a few varieties having variegated leaves. These easy to grow annuals […]
7 PLANTS TO KEEP THE MOSQUITOS AWAY
April 26, 2019 /0 Comments/in Basil, Gardening Tips, Health, Herbs, Mid-summer gardening, Pest Control /by Mike Wadeby Heather Stone The long, warm days of summer are meant to be enjoyed. Sitting poolside, bar-b-queuing with friends or just relaxing in the garden. But sometimes pesky mosquitoes have a way of taking the fun right out of our outdoor activities. Instead of dousing yourself and your loved ones in chemical bug sprays […]
OKRA IS NOT AS YUCKY AS SOME MIGHT THINK
April 16, 2019 /0 Comments/in Gardening Tips, Okra, Recipes, Vegetable Gardens /by Mike WadeBy Engrid Winslow If you grew up in the South, as I did, you loved okra as an essential ingredient in gumbo. If you didn’t then you might think it is “slimy” but okay if coated in batter and deep-fried. Well, you have been treating this amazing vegetable all wrong. First of all, the plants […]
What is your favorite tomato?
April 12, 2019 /0 Comments/in Planting, Tomato, Tomatoes, Vegetable Gardens /by Mike Wadeby Heather Stone What’s your favorite tomato? All true tomato lovers and growers have a few tomato varieties that they just couldn’t imagine not growing and always recommend to their friends and fellow gardeners. One popular heirloom tomato variety that continues to be a favorite among many and consistently wins taste tests across the country […]
WHY ARE NATIVE PLANTS IMPORTANT?
March 27, 2019 /0 Comments/in Bees, Beneficial Insects, Butterflies, Education, Honey Bees, Nature, Pollinators, Wildflowers /by Mike Wadeby Engrid Winslow Honey bees are not native to the United States but were imported in the 1600s by colonists from Europe. Already here when honey bees arrived were 50 species of bumblebees and over 4,400 species of native bees. Bumblebees are especially efficient at buzz pollination. (Check out this blog for more information on bumblebees: […]
April Happenings in the Honeybee Hive
March 20, 2019 /1 Comment/in Bees, Beneficial Insects, Education, Honey Bees, Pollinators /by Mike WadeBy Engrid Winslow Beginning in March, as the days lengthen and temperatures begin to warm (at least some of the time!) the bees are starting to raise brood again. April means the delivery of packages and nucs and towards the end of the month established overwintered honeybee hive begins to think of swarming. This […]
FIVE REASONS TO RELISH THE RADISH
February 26, 2019 /0 Comments/in Heirloom Vegetables, Organic Gardening, Planting, Recipes, Seed Starting, Seeds, Vegetable Gardens /by Mike WadeBy Engrid Winslow There are two primary types of radish – one hails from Asia (the most common ones are daikon which is large and white) but there is also the large sweet and remarkably pink Watermelon Radish. Watermelon radishes are delicious raw and can be substituted for a cracker in crudités and they also […]
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