Daily Library
How to Make Cute Herb Stakes for Your Garden
It starts innocently enough. A seed-starter tray sitting in a sunny spot on your counter. Until you realize that you forgot to label them and now have to wait until ... Read More
Dogs in the Garden: The Good Boys and the Not-So-Good Boys
Did you know that there are entire books written for dogs in the garden? They call it dogscaping! This past spring we lost our pup suddenly at the youthful age of ... Read More
Water Flow and Soil Health for a Resilient Garden
Assess Soil Absorption Capabilities Overly saturated soils can cause root decay and turn your plant’s leaves yellow or brown. If you spot standing water in your garden after rainstorms, that’s one ... Read More
How to Start Growing Cantaloupe Vertically at Home
What’s that? Growing cantaloupe vertically? I get it. Vertical gardening is a super way to get more out of your space, and it’s a fantastic idea for fruits and vegetables ... Read More
Peat-Free vs Peat-Based Compost: Which is Better?
It’s no secret that I love compost. For those just getting into gardening, compost is decomposed organic matter that can be used as a soil amendment in garden beds and ... Read More
Gardening Humor is the Tool That Keeps on Growing
Some days you’re swatting off mealybug and digging trenches to dissuade rogue bunnies, but then other days you find yourself in the dirt chasing off some squash-munching squealing pigs. Oh, that ... Read More
The Best Flowers for a Vegetable Garden to Attract Pollinators and Deter Pests
When Emily Dickinson wrote this poem in the mid-1800s, she may or may not have been thinking about flowers for a vegetable garden. There’s really no way to say. She ... Read More
6 Easy Fruits to Grow in Pots Inside Your Home
When we were buying our first house, we shopped a lot. Our realtor must have been exhausted by us. On one occasion, we saw a home that opened up to ... Read More
The Gardening Joy of Cooking
The Gardening Joy of Cooking? Yes, I'm making that up. It's a cookbook that doesn't exist. But once you read this story, you'll understand why. There IS, of course, the Joy of ... Read More
7 Common Vegetables that Should Not be Planted Together
I remember being in third grade and my teacher separated two of the annoying boisterous kids (okay, one of them was me), and said: “You two just can’t be around ... Read More
