Happy Earth Day, well actually it’s Earth Night at the moment! The day has gone so quickly and been a busy one. I’ve updated some things on this blog a bit, and hope you like the changes and new resources available to you. My mother was a much better gardener than I will ever be. [...]
Sometimes when you’ve been working a blog for a while, great posts get lost at the “bottom of the blog”, and need revisiting, so with gardening season arriving for some of us, and always around for other lucky readers, I thought I’d point out a few helpful posts: Gardening in Containers – this post contained [...]
What a cold Spring day it is today here in northern NJ, but that isn’t stopping the high tree pollen count as the trees begin to bud, and the growth of my tulips, daffodils, grape hyacinths, crocuses and other assorted spring bulbs. Many of my perennial herbs are coming up as well.Today I want to [...]
Tomatoes are not hard to grow, even in difficult soil you will get something, but the richer the soil, the more plentiful the harvest. We have a relatively short growing season here, and I like quick results, so for the past few years have been growing grape or cherry tomatoes. I only plant 3-4 plants [...]
It’s actually spring-like today, a little cloudy, but in the 50′s, which is nice…and it’s most definitely time to be planning the garden. Even though I do a garden blog and like to garden, I must admit that I like to grow things that aren’t to hard to maintain. The years of being challenged by [...]
