Even throughout the winter, you can have fresh green sprouts for your salads and sandwiches. Grow your own microgreens with these tips and tricks.
Fragrant Plants for Winter Scent Gardens
Even in the cold of winter, the garden can provide beauty to more than just the eyes. By selecting plants that bloom with a sweet fragrance during the winter months, gardeners will extend the season of interest in the landscape.
How to Grow Garlic Organically – Plus Giveaway!
Did you know fall is the season to plant garlic? It is an excellent time to plant other bulbs – daffodils, crocus bulbs, etc so it’s easy to remember, when you think about it that way, to plant your garlic as well. Planting Garlic When you plant garlic you aren’t planting the full bulb. Break […]
Tuck Them In: Burlap and Leaves Keep Garden Plants Warm This Winter
Gardening out of your zone? Try burlap and leaves to get palms and citrus plants that are snug and protected from the frost.
The Winter Garden: A Homemade Cloche for Garden Plants
There is definitely a cool edge to the air in my garden these days, and it’s going to get colder. Even though we don’t have a lot of very cold days in our part of the world, it does freeze in the winter time. The first frost seems to be approaching rapidly, and the plants have stopped growing almost entirely.
Green Mulch for the Winter Garden
At this time of year, thoughts in the northern hemisphere turn to putting the garden to bed. If you are a winter gardener, it is time to bring out the cloches and the cold frames and help less-hardy crops through the growing cold. It’s also time to mulch. What is Mulch? Think of mulch as […]
