Pre-Sprout for Easier, Earlier Carrots
You’re tired of waiting and waiting and waiting for carrot, parsnip or parsley seeds to sprout (they can take upContinue Reading
Category: Vegetables
A Simple Way of Thwarting Potato Beetles
Here’s a simple, but effective way of keeping one pest out of your plants! To avoid the Colorado potato beetle, LeptinotarsaContinue Reading
Lasagna Gardening: A Backyard Guide for Beginners
A Guest Blog by Jeff Antilla of Redfin Looking to cook up your own lasagna garden? Okay, maybe there’s no cookingContinue Reading
Start Hardening Seedlings Off Early
Where I live, this spring has been exceptionally cold and I’m nowhere near acclimatizing any seedlings to outdoor conditions, butContinue Reading
Speedier Veggies With Black Plastic Mulch
Gardeners in cooler climates are faced with the same dilemma almost every spring. The nights remain cool and the soilContinue Reading
The Mystery Behind the Garden Huckleberry
When I was a kid, I ordered seeds of garden huckleberry from a seed catalog, starting them indoors “like aContinue Reading
Pack Plants In to Keep Weeds Out
Leaving abundant space in a flower bed or vegetable garden is not very useful if you’re trying to be aContinue Reading
Lovage: The Easy-Peasy Celery?
Celery (Apium graveolens dulce) is a persnickety vegetable that only seems to thrive on constant attention. It is slow growing,Continue Reading
Eat Your Weeds Into Submission!
Your garden is overrun with purslane, you can’t see the green lawn for dandelion flowers, your shade bed is aContinue Reading
6 Steps to Growing Great Potatoes
The following article appears on the Eagle Creek Seed Potatoes website and is reused with permission from the author, John Mills. Continue Reading