Making Your Garden A Friendly Place for the Whole Family

When I was a kid, I assumed you had just a few months to plant, tend to, and then harvest plants and vegetables. I was wrong. When I started out working for a farmer I [ … ]

A vegetable grower’s poem around the time of harvest is often something along the lines of, “How do I store thee?  Let me count the ways.” As a gardener myself, I mutter something about the [ … ]

We are preparing our gardens and pots for winter now. It seems a waste to throw out depleted potting soil, but is it safe to reuse it? And if so, how? There are a variety [ … ]