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Apartment & Small Space Gardening
Itching to get your hands dirty? Wanting to start your own garden but thinking it’s impossible due to limited space? If you are living in an apartment building without any outdoor space to…
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How to Grow Garlic in Cold Climates
Growing underground vegetables is one of my favorite things in life. In my experience, they usually require the least amount of hands on care, YET they require the most patience! Unlike tomatoes, you…
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How to Introduce New Chickens to your Flock
It’s chick season! Spring is that time of year where everybody seems to get baby animal fever. I’m no different: I’m seeing so many baby birds in nests, everyone and their mother seems…
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Forrest and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Month
Most of you are used to seeing plenty of calming videos of my dog, Forrest, on Instagram. You can get a very good idea of his gentle demeanor by the way his eyes…
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How to Grow Green Onions: Everything From Growing Seeds To Saving Seeds!
I’ll get right to it: bunching onions will forever have a place in my garden. I’ve had them in my backyard for 3 years now, and they just keep getting better and better!…
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Storing & Organizing Your Seed Collection
How many of you are finding yourself swimming in seed catalogues right now? It’s that time of year. The holidays are past, things are calming down, seed companies are sending crisp catalogues to…
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How To Properly Save Seeds From Your Garden
The first seeds that I intentionally saved from my garden here in Colorado were from some gigantic African marigolds. It was the first year that I had enough planting space to grow tomatoes,…
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How To Properly Harden Off Seedlings
You did it! You finally decided to start your own vegetable and flower seeds this year instead of buying plants from big box stores. You’ve spent much of the last few months tending,…
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17 Natural Pest Control Tips
As we approach gardening season once again, I start becoming inundated with feelings of giddiness. I can visualize the bright green leaves of my beloved swiss chard. I can almost smell that distinct…
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10 Easy Vegetables To Grow In Your Garden
There’s no better time than now to learn how to grow your own food. The other day, I accidentally left a whole tray of my favorite beet seedlings out on a much-too-cold night…