5 Ideas for Shading Plants from Sun in a Vegetable Garden
Ever go to the beach? The sun feels blissful. It’s bright and hot enough that it coerces you into the cold ocean waters. Then, after an hour or so, it …
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How to Choose the Best Garden Shears for the Job
Of all the garden tools I’ve acquired over the years (and there are quite a few), I tend to use the same four or five tools over and over again. …
10 Things to Know Before Growing Organic Vegetables
If you could step into a time machine and go back a few generations, you’d have a heck of a time trying to find organic vegetables at the supermarket. Why? …
How to Transition to Planting Vegetables at Home Instead of Buying Them
If you think planting vegetables at home will be hard, try planting vegetables on Mars. In the 2015 movie, The Martian, astronaut Mark Watney (played by Matt Damon) is assumed …
3 Tools Needed to Start a Garden and 3 You Really Don’t Need
When I started my very first vegetable garden, I must have lingered in my garden center’s aisles for over an hour trying to figure out what were the tools needed …
Raspberry Vinaigrette
Even though they’re known for their bright, bold colors, raspberries actually have a very delicate taste. Whether they’re red, purple, black, or even golden, these mouthwatering berries are a much-loved …
How to Start a Vegetable Garden from Scratch on a Budget
It's one thing to figure out how to start a vegetable garden from scratch if you have a big ole pile of cash in your wallet and no credit card …
5 Garden Hand Tools Every Greenthumb Should Have
When I started my first vegetable garden I went a little tool-crazy. I bought every type of shovel, shear, and weeding gadget marketed to me at big box home and …
Victory Gardens
Just to be clear here, I’m not a city gardener. I live in the country. The closest city to us, here in far northern Vermont, is Burlington (population 42,000) which …
Plant Parenthood
New Year’s Resolution: With no kids left at home to parent, George and I will focus our inexhaustible supply of energy on our garden. Maybe a few extra plants will …
