Small Space Gardening Tips in Chicagoland
What happens when you endure an unusually long, cold winter and finally the weather starts to turn the corner toward spring? Right! Pull out...
The SF Flower & Garden Show | 6 Uses for Gabions in the Garden
I turned the corner into the show gardens at the San Francisco Flower & Garden Show this past weekend to be ultimately impressed with...
Plant Pick: Purple Sage
Do you have favorite routes, detours and round-about paths you take simply to glimpse a particular plant or flower? I've traveled past this planting more times than I can...
Tool Time | Ames Spring Tool Giveaway
Use a pencil as a transplanter or a can for making newspaper seedling pots, both indispensable when it comes to seeding and transplanting seedlings....
Plant Pick: Happy Wanderer
Who doesn’t want to be happy? Happy Wanderer, Hardenbergia violacea, brings more than cheer and free spirit to the garden. It’s an enduring, hard...
Plant Pick: What You Didn’t Know About Candytuft
If you're looking for a fabulous, drought tolerant ground cover with masses of spring flowers this is the plant for you. Candytuft, Iberis sempervirens, is...
Tricks for Thinning Carrots: The Things We Do For Love
My hopeless love of homegrown carrots sometimes feels like opening Pandora's Box -- they can be challenging to sow, taunt foes like carrot flies...
Tips For Preparing Your Garden For Winter
Unless you're surrounded by snow, it's not too late to ready your garden for winter. Which, if you do have snow, lucky you. The...
What to Plant Now: 6 Perfect Winter Veggies
Many of the foods we love are grown in extremes -- the edges and shifts of weather found with seasons. I've decided consistent, predictable...
Small Space Gardening | How to Make a Mint Tin Garden
It's easy to have a garden in the smallest of spaces when it's grown in a tin -- and why not a mint tin?
It's...
Fall Garden Checklist
If you count the hours spent readying your garden in spring, picking, eating and weeding in summer and now find yourself on to fall,...
How to Collect & Save Tomato Seeds
If you're a tomato lover it's time to start thinking about collecting and saving seeds for next season's crop. There's a fancy way to...
Growing Flowers with Spin: Upcycled Bicycle Gardens
Check out this community inspired project. Curbside, upcycled bicycle gardens along the lanes of Crystal Beach, Ontario. Fab, fun and funky, these gardens are part...
More Friday Flowers
I think I might crave flowers as much as certain, before mentioned, fruits and veggies. They go hand-in-hand. It might be tomato eating season but...
DIY Mushroom Farm
Mushrooms are the rule benders of garden-to-table eating and a perfect compliment to indoor gardening. Call it apartment therapy, not enough space for a...
May Garden Checklist
May comes and the growing season seems to be here in a hot minute. No more dreaming over seed packets. It's time to plant,...
Bee Walls & Insect Hotels: Habitat Inspiration
With the return of victory gardens, garden to table eating, colony collapse disorder and all things organic (move over Monsanto) the insect world is...
Five Friday Flowers
The ephemeral nature of a garden is a crazy, worldly reminder of something amazing. I love it. From one visit to the next, one...
8 Tips to Prevent Damping-Off of Seedlings
The zeal of greens and other starts emerging from the soil, crisp and bright is something to look forward to. But sometimes our seedlings,...
Making Paper Pots For Starting Seeds
Goodbye plastic containers, hello upcycled newspaper seedling pots! I love these things. I love making them and planting in them. From beginning to finish...
