Gardening: How to

This is such an exciting time for gardeners. Blooms are appearing, bringing the promise of beautiful flowers, veggies are bursting through the soil, and the days are starting to warm! Isn’t it exciting to walk through your garden every morning to see what new has come within the last several hours? It is an amazing […]

Early is NOT always better…or the early bird does NOT always catch the worm. Remember that panic tantrum I was throwing last month? The one that came on suddenly as we moved from winter to spring in a matter of days? No easy, slow build up. No gradual increase in temps. One day it was winter […]

There is nothing like a few days of unseasonably warm weather to bring on a full-throttle gardener’s panic attack. We are all sure that we are sooooo far behind and, indeed, have probably already missed the growing season. That’s what gets us in trouble. Recently I took a butt numbing drive down to Baton Rouge to the Association […]

It is no secret by now that I have gone nuts with soil blocking. Those tiny little cubes of soil are the best thing going in the seed starting world! So many seeds…so many plants…in so little space! I think that we have forgotten how many plants that you can have with one package of […]