2 days ago by arauthor

vegetable gardening Creating a vegetable garden will be able to really help you in times of financial difficulty. You are not going to only manage to save on food expenses but you can also earn some extra cash selling your vegetables as well. You’ll find that starting a garden is not difficult but y ...

2 days ago by gardengeek

Indeterminate tomatoes take up more space and produce more fruit than Determinate type tomatoes. Indeterminate tomatoes will set fruit early if you pinch off the tips of the main tomato stem in early summer. Determinate tomatoes set and ripen the tomato fruit all at the same time if you are looking ...

4 days ago by giant veggie gardener

You should have a bunch of seed catalogs by now. More come in everyday and brighten my evenings. So far I have Johnny’s, Seed Saver’s Exchange, Tomato Growers, Totally Tomatoes, The Cook’s Garden, John Scheeper’s Kitchen Garden and Baker Heirloom Seeds. Below are my top 4 favorites. I like many othe ...

6 days ago by Stephanie Suesan Smith

Please check out my new video on how to prepare a vegetable garden from the ground up. Now is the time to be planting your cold hardy crops, so this is just in time to help with that. For more help gardening, buy my book, Preparing A Vegetable Garden From The Ground Up Available in print or ebook fr ...

8 days ago by virginiaorganicgardener

In this podcast, I discuss what to look for in seed or nursery catalogs that might indicate an aggressive, invasive plant. Visit my garden blog at www.cvog.blogspot.com please! Happy gardening!

12 days ago by The Urban Domestic Diva

Today in good ol' Chi-town, we flirted with 60 degrees. It is the last day of January, and we had the warmest day since 78 years ago! So, I have a Spring vibe going on. I know it won't last. I know Chicago is a cruel temptress when it comes to Winter weather. She will tease you with sunny love and t ...

12 days ago by the canned quilter

I am writing this on Monday January 30, 2012. This is normally our usual sights on the farm in January. Gray skies and the browns of winter. Dismal long overcast days. Days of resting and waiting for those warm days and warming rays of sunlight to return. Anticipating even the preparation of the upc ...

14 days ago by SX30IS

Gardening can either be a source of intense pleasure or intense pain depending on what you do. Some people may go into gardening with no inkling of what it demands. And guess what then happens? Of course they end up with problems that make the entire gardening experience very unpleasant, instead of ...

15 days ago by Noelle Southwest

I love to grow vegetables. Right now, I have leaf lettuce, garlic, green onions, cauliflower, carrots and spinach growing in my cool-season vegetable garden. Cool Season Vegetables I must confess however, that I don’t always use traditional gardening tools when I plant my vegetable garden. This is e ...

16 days ago by matronofhusbandry

With the snow gone and finally a day without soaking rains, it was time yesterday to replenish the vegetable stores. Despite our almost two feet of snow last week and the following foot plus of rain, our winter has actually been pretty docile. Memories of long stretches of bad winter, keep us in the ...