How to Attract Ladybugs to Your Garden
Are you wishing ladybugs would find your garden as easily as aphids? Never fear, the trick for attracting ladybugs to your garden begins with...
Grow Your Own Microgreens
Yep. Even you can grow your own microgreens.
If pink is the new black then microgreens are the new kale. Packed with nutrition and gleaming...
Feed the Birds with a Holiday Wreath
Is there a bird lover in your house? Add a small twist to the holidays and make a festive wreath to feed the birds.
When...
DIY Garden in a Mint Tin
Don't throw it away! If it holds soil and has drainage it's a planter. Do-it-yourself mint tin gardens are perfect for small spaces, windowsills...
How to Grow Sprouts with DIY Sprouting Jars
Antsy for spring? Move over winter blues, time for some green love without the wait. Grow your own sprouts with a handful of seeds...
How To Make Seed Bombs: Spread the Love
Make your own seed bombs with these easy tips and recipe.
What Are Seedbombs?
Seed bombs are neat little packages of seeds, compost, and clay. They're...
6 Basil Varieties To Grow & Love
Grow these 6 basil varieties to change the way you cook and live.
As a gardener and cook, I’m always on the lookout for new...
How To Attract Pollinators To Your Garden
Looking for creative ways to attract pollinators to your garden?
Pollinators face a number of challenges, with habitat loss, pesticide use, and climate change at...
Succession Planting Tips: Get More From Your Plot
The secret to succession planting is to sow little and often. In fact, this is the key to a continual and abundant supply of...
The Best Soil For Your Garden (And You)
The best soil for your garden (and you) is organic and chemical free.
Here’s Why.
Soil is teaming with life. Worms have been touted as...
5 Secrets to Jump Start Your Summer Garden
Jump start your summer garden with a handful of easy to follow tips and a copy of Grow What You Love!
*Giveaway is Closed*
Grow What...
4 Cosmos for Your Cutting Garden
It often happens that the best flowers are also easy to grow, and Cosmos is definitely in this category. If you’d like to start...
Extend Your Growing Season with this Row Cover Cheat Sheet
A scant few millimeters of row cover fabric could be your secret to a thriving, successful garden — especially when the mercury drops. The...
How to Store Dahlia Tubers
Dahlia growing is serious business. It’s no casual, cut flower gardening past time but something gardeners embark upon year after year as if sanity...
6 Bulbs to Plant Now for Spring
I'll take flowers in any season, but flowers that follow winter always stop me in my tracks. Especially when materializing (as if out of...
9 Learnings from the Butterfly Waystation at Portland Head Lighthouse
Somewhere along the way this summer, in between work and travel, I found myself here, at the Portland Head Lighthouse. I was happy to...
Edible Weeds: Purslane the New, Easy to Grow Superfood
Is it a weed, or a superfood?
Make a little room for purslane to run wild in your garden or plant it with purpose, growing...
Pass The Pistil Giveaway: Gilmour’s Top 5 Watering Tools
Once you’ve had a taste of the right tool for the job, it’s hard to go backwards — especially when it comes to watering....
6 Solutions for Successful Container Gardening
Container gardening is often easier and just as rewarding as gardening in the ground. You can focus your attention on just those plants you’ve...
What’s Growing Now: Alpine Strawberries, Sweet Treat Tomatoes & Ladybugs
It was just last winter when I found this garden. I was out for a run on a nearby trail and there it was...
