Helping Beginners Grow a Rewarding, Successful Garden
If you’re starting your own garden, maybe for the first time, soil testing probably isn’t the first thing that you think of doing. You’re more concerned with choosing your plants or building your raised beds. Most gardeners, I’d venture to speculate, do not begin to consider testing their soil until a few seasons later. Perhaps you can relate. You may have…
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It’s never too early to start your garden planning. In fact, with every season that passes, I find myself planning a bit earlier than I did the last year. And you know what? It’s paying off. Unless this is your first year gardening, you have experience that can make a huge difference in your next garden. As early as your…
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I like everything tidy and in its place, and this goes for my garden, too. One of my favorite fall activities used to be a thorough fall garden clean-up. I’d clear out every spent plant out of my garden, preparing a blank canvas for the next season’s adventure. That’s why last year when I heard Theresa Loe’s interview with Jessica…
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The home garden grows more than vegetables. It also births new ideas, experiments, knowledge, and lessons. With the harvesting of the last tomato to the clearing of the last spent vine, we learn more to make the following season’s garden even more fruitful. Having completed my sixth garden season, I know I have many more years before I consider myself…
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