by Daisy | Nov 23, 2012 | Garden, Intermediate Gardening
This is the first year I planted pineapple sage (above). I didn’t know what to expect, except I heard it was a great “tea” herb, and who doesn’t love making her own herbal tea? Not me, certainly. I watched the thing grow all Spring and...
by Ivory Soap | Jun 30, 2012 | Garden, Intermediate Gardening
(EDIT 8/12/12: The download is corrected and no longer has a year on it.) Why, oh, why did I put 2009 on that planner? The truth is that you can use it every year. The year doesn’t matter. The frost date never changes. But, the program I used to make this...
by Ivory Soap | Sep 14, 2011 | Garden, Intermediate Gardening
Homesteader’s Supply got such a rush of questions about straw bale gardening, that they wrote us a tutorial! Something to keep in mind when considering gardening with straw bales, make sure you purchase straw and not hay bales… hay will get too hot in the...
by Ivory Soap | Aug 15, 2011 | Garden, Intermediate Gardening
The following is a guest post by Nev and Linda Sweeney from the wonderfully informative site Under the Choko Tree. Why bother? There are a whole stack of reasons why it is worth raising your own seedlings rather than just buying them – It’s very satisfying and...
by Daisy | Jul 22, 2011 | Garden, Intermediate Gardening
Pruning holds a mystique for me. It’s the purview of the elite, experienced horticulturist, not a bush-leaguer like me; a craft bordering on art in its extreme forms, and it scares me. My first experience with pruning, other than hacking away at overgrown...
by Daisy | Mar 2, 2011 | Garden, Intermediate Gardening
A couple of years ago I tried the potatoes in a bin method, but had no luck with it. The plants grew fine, even blossomed well, but when I dumped them out once the plants had withered, I had only a few pitiful little potatoes to show for it. It was a complete...
