What Plants Need: Water
Watering The Garden It’s no secret that a consistent supply of water is a necessity for a healthy garden or…
Baked Sweet Potato Chips
Sweet Potatoes: One of the Healthiest Foods We definitely love sweet potatoes! First of all, growing sweet potatoes is easy.…
Gardening Through El Niño
Variable Climate, Consistent Garden It’s no secret that weird weather is the norm these days, case in point: one of…
Growing With Green Manure
Green Manure Cover Crop Cover cropping is a well known practice, and the current groundswell of interest in backyard organic…
6 Fabulous Fall Things to Make
It’s Time for Fall! Ok, well technically it isn’t fall just yet. However, it’s after Labor Day and our fall…
What Plants Need: Soil
Soil Gardeners spend lots of time digging, weeding, fertilizing, transplanting and working at a host of other chores. Sometimes it’s…
Labor Day Garden Chores:Growing In Transition
Goodbye Summer or Hello Fall? I can never decide whether to think of Labor Day weekend as Summer’s grand finale…
The Best Time to Plant Trees, Shrubs and Perennials
Fall Is The Best I used to think that planting time was the day after you bought your stuff that…
Lessons Learned From a Summer Garden
It’ll Only Take A Moment As summer winds down, I’m anxiously looking forward to cooler and less humid weather, a…
Preserving the Harvest: Herb Paste
How Do You Preserve Herbs? That is the second most common question I get at our weekly farmers market stand.…
Herb Wine Jelly with Black Pepper
Wine Jelly I’ve seen recipes for wine jellies in several canning recipe books all summer long. Why make jelly out…
Growing Backyard Figs
Grow Your Own Growing figs in your backyard has lots of benefits. Of course, the fresh figs themselves are first…
