Entries by Sandy Swegel

Name Your Garden!

Gardens Name Themselves by Sandy Swegel A friend told me years ago that everything should have a name, even inanimate objects. She was helping me garden one year and within just a couple of weeks, everything we might ever have a need to refer to had a name. The big orange wheelbarrow, of course, was […]

5 FREE Soil Amendments that you can Easily Find!

Creative Ways to Help Your Garden by Sandy Swegel One of the problems with gardening is that you just can’t rush Mother Nature.  If you don’t get those tomato seeds planted early enough, there’s just no way to trick the plants into growing overnight. Compost is the same…you can’t just mix everything up today and […]

A Tip for Impatient Gardeners

Seed Starting Tips by Sandy Swegel Gardening can be frustrating for people who hate to wait.  It’s not easy to speed Mother Nature along, so on a fine warm day, we find ourselves at the garden centers spending a lot of money on bedding plants or transplants.  Seed lovers know that is not always a […]

How to Transplant your Veggie Starts

Avoiding Plant Transplant Trauma by Sandy Swegel You’ve done all the work of getting little seedlings started.  Maybe you’ve already hardened them off.  Now, planting them in your garden has a few tricks that can make a big difference in how many vegetables you get to eat. “Breakfast-Lunch-Dinner” was one of the things I learned […]

Two Secrets to Great Compost!

Composting Tips by Sandy Swegel How to make bad compost: You need the right proportions of greens and browns to get the metabolic process going.  Too much brown and nothing happens.  Too much green and you either get slime or the greens just turn brown. You need the right amount of water. Too little water […]