Archive for the 'Sustainable Gardening' Category

21 Dec

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Safer® brand. All opinions are 100% mine. Welcome to the first day of winter…and it is wintery here in northern NJ – lots of snow fell over the weekend, as most of you have probably heard on the news, and it’s cold and windy, [...]

04 Aug

  Vegetable Gardens of Switzerland We love “green” on this blog, it has always been a favorite color of mine, and to me, is a symbol of new life, expressed in the new green buds and blooms of springtime.  “Going green” is a term we are hearing more and more, and it has a little [...]

22 Apr

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.  [...]

20 Mar

Michelle Obama is going to be planting a garden at the White House, and from what I hear, it is going to be a garden with vegetables, herbs, and perhaps some fruit.  The garden will be near the fountain on the south lawn, and children from a local DC school will join her to break [...]

16 Mar

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 [...]