Getting lettuce from my garden is like nothing else: fresh, crisp and delicious! Do you know how to grow lettuce? It’s really easy and with a bit of planning you can grow lettuce year round. YUM! I LOVE fresh salads in the winter! There are 2 secrets to the growing lettuce throughout the year: the …
Vegetable Gardening
Are you new to gardening? Maybe wondering how to start a new vegetable garden? It’s not hard if you have a plan. So let’s look at what steps you should take to start your first garden. How To Start A New Vegetable Garden The first step is to decide where you’ll grow your garden. Make …
The allium family of vegetables are easy to grow and often available year around. They can grow fairly close together, so they don’t take up too much space in the garden. So, do you know how to grow allium vegetables? Our family has been planting onions and garlic for as long as I remember. We …
Squirrels may look cute and cuddly but they make for a very annoying garden pest. If you want to know how to keep squirrels out of the garden for good, you’re going to want to read some of the very helpful tips we have here. There are some natural predators to squirrels, such as hawks, …
I love harvest time every year! The long hours in the garden are finally paying off, and while we enjoy fresh fruits and vegetables, we can’t possibly eat all of them now. So I needed to learn how to freeze fresh produce to help me save the garden harvest for later use. I love harvest …
It’s the middle of the summer, and the garden is producing loads of fruits and vegetables. Are you taking advantage of this and preserving some for later in the year when fresh food is hard to come by? You need to know how to preserve fruits and vegetables so you can stretch your harvest for …
No matter how much time you spend in your garden, some vegetables will be invaded by garden pests at one point or another. When you grow vegetables, you’ll need to spend a lot of time checking your garden for the next attack of hungry critters. Let’s see what steps you can take to control vegetable …
If you never grew vegetables before, starting a veggie garden might be a daunting task. But don’t worry: today we’ll look at how to start a vegetable garden for beginners, and by the end you finish reading this, you’ll know what you should grow in your first vegetable garden. This may seem like an obvious …