How to Outsmart Your Weeds
Our Favorite Weeding Tips by Sandy Swegel It’s Spring. Your plants are tiny and growing. Your weeds are huge and growing. If you want a nice garden, you really do have to outsmart your weeds and deal with the weeds that are gobbling up your soil nutrients and drinking your water. Weeding doesn’t have to […]
3 Superfast Ways to Weed this Spring!
How to Quickly Handle Weeds 1. Off with their heads. Most of us spend our time nurturing seedlings….but weed seedlings are a very different species. With the first warm spells of spring, hundreds of thousands of weed seeds germinate. I sharpen my hand-held hoe (a scuffle hoe works too…any sharp edge) and one swift run along the […]
Front Yard Vegetable Gardens
Heirloom Vegetable Seeds I’m fortunate to know lots of gardeners. They are a quiet bunch for the most part and sometimes rather eccentric. But they are on the forefront of an environmental movement that is making a big difference in our community: turning front yards into vegetable gardens! It begins as the gardener runs out […]