Aug 31, 2022 | Container Gardening, DIY, Gardening, Planting Prep, Who We are
I’ve always been fascinated by espalier, or the technique of training trees to grow up against a flat surface like a wall or fence. This amazing space-saving technique that comes from the Old World European gardens, allowed people to not only decorate their...
Aug 18, 2022 | Composting, Container Gardening, DIY, Fall Season, Gardening, Native Plants, Planting Prep, Pollinators, Vegetables, Who We are, Wildflowers, Wildlife
The blog this week will be quite short, I’m afraid. I contracted COVID-19 (right around my birthday) and I haven’t been working in a couple of weeks. I’m not recovering as quickly as I want to be. But it doesn’t stop me from daydreaming about...
Aug 4, 2022 | Container Gardening, DIY, Education, Fall Season, Gardening, Landscaping, Planting Prep, Summer Season, Vegetables, Who We are
As we gear up for Fall Planting, we celebrate this blog’s 5th birthday (woohoo!!) – and my own birthday too – I wanted to bring you a review of some of our previous Fall Gardening articles that you might have missed. Also I wanted to offer a few...
Jul 20, 2022 | Container Gardening, Education, Fall Season, Food, Gardening, Planting Prep, Recipes, Summer Season, Vegetables
When it’s hot outside I spend time inside planning my next garden. As I get older, I find that the heat and I don’t get along all that well, and in fact if I get overheated I get migraines. Ugh. So, I settle in with my pencils, garden journal, and...
Jul 5, 2022 | Container Gardening, DIY, Education, Gardening, Organic, Pest Control, Vegetables, Wildlife
Snails and slugs are very common in Florida due to our warm wet weather. We even have invasive snails, namely the Giant African Land Snail, which are a hazard to Florida’s very important agriculture-based industries. In this blog we’ll look at snails and...
Apr 28, 2022 | Container Gardening, DIY, Education, Food, Gardening, Herbs, Recipes
Tea has been made from plants for a long time. You can grow herbs in the garden – even tea plants – to make your own. I always recommend starting small, a few pots of your favorite herbs. Inevitably those few pots can become a whole plot of your yard! ...
