It’s the beginning of March and that is the time I start my tomato seeds. I love trying new varieties every year, but I always grow a few I’ve grown before because they are so good that I just have to grow them again. I will be growing 20 varieties this year and these are… Read More Must Grow Tomatoes
I have been growing a wide variety of fruits and vegetables in the garden the past couple of years and have a few favorites I wanted to write about that I’ll definitely grow again and think you should try too. Garlic I prefer the hard neck varieties of garlic because I enjoy the garlic scapes… Read More Best Fruit and Vegetable Varieties to Grow
An assortment of last year’s varieties (Dester & Latah not pictured) I’m growing more varieties of tomatoes than I did last year as if 15 wasn’t enough. I’ve got 22 varieties started. I’ll just be putting one plant of each in the garden but have started 3 of each and will be selling off the… Read More Tomato and Pepper Varieties 2016
I’ve become addicted to seed swaps over the course of a year. There are so many different ways you can get seeds besides buying packets online or at your local big box stores. I can’t even count the number of seed swaps I’ve participated in the last year. I’m sure it’s over 20. I should… Read More Seed Swaps – Free Seeds
I’ve never grown beans from seed before but harvested what was already planted by previous owners last summer. I don’t even know what variety they were but they were obviously a pole bean and had nothing to climb on which made it a challenge to harvest. I didn’t save any of the seeds because I… Read More 2015 Bean Varieties
In addition to planting a bunch of tomato and kale varieties, I’ve also planted quite a few lettuces (7 of them) and they are just about ready to harvest. There are a few more varieties I will be starting soon to replace these after harvesting. I had originally planned to put the lettuce in the… Read More This Year’s Lettuce Varieties
This is my first year planting kale however did have one variety (red russian) in the garden when I moved into the house last summer and it seemed to grow well. The previous owners of the house did not thin out the rows so they were pretty tightly packed. I’ll be giving them much… Read More This Year’s Kale Varieties
Going from a teenie garden to a big one has made me go a little overboard on planting stuff. Even after adding two additional beds to the six I already had, it seems I don’t have enough room for all I want to plant. I used to plant typically 2 tomato plants in a container… Read More This Year’s Tomato Varieties
This is my first year planning and planting a garden that is big enough to actually require detailed planning. I gotta say it’s kind of fun. My parents always had a garden in the backyard but the majority of it was filled with tomatoes and peppers and not much greens of any kind. I also… Read More Backyard Garden
It’s been a busy few months! I unexpectedly sold my house to my neighbor’s sister and managed, within a couple of months, to find a newer bigger and better home that’s 15 minutes closer to work. It was a little more than I originally planned to spend but still affordable. I had an awesome realtor… Read More Garden Compass App
