Hanging Basket Happiness

Hanging Basket Happiness: A Care Guide   Hanging baskets are a great way to decorate porches, decks and other places in your yard and garden. Here are some tips for growing and maintaining your hanging baskets, so they keep looking great all summer!   Watering Check baskets daily for water needs. Get to know how…

Native Plants for Northern Gardens

Native plants are perfectly adapted to our local climate and soil conditions, making them low-maintenance and resilient choices for your landscape. Plus, beyond providing essential habitat and food for local wildlife, they also require less water, pesticides and fertilizers, promoting a healthier ecosystem. By incorporating native plants into your garden, you can support biodiversity, conserve…

How to Grow Sweet Potato

Sweet potatoes aren’t grown from seeds like most vegetables, or even seed potato chunks like potatoes are. Sweet potatoes are grown from small seedlings, known as slips. It’s very simple and inexpensive to sprout your own! When to Start Sweet Potato Slips The timing is important if you want to grow large and tasty sweet…

Setting Up Your Grow

Before you start growing, you’ll have to determine whether you want to grow indoors or outdoors. Cannabis can grow pretty much anywhere—its nickname “Weed” is well earned! It just depends what space, equipment, and resources you have available.    Outdoor Growing  If you choose to grow outdoors, MN state law requires you to grow “in…

Growing Cannabis

Keep a journal!  Keep track of your Cannabis grow by recording your set-up, seed varieties, dates, fertilizers, harvest and curing details, as well as yield and your thoughts about the finished product. You’ll be able to make changes and improve over time if you’ve got good notes to review.   Starting Seeds Cannabis plants start…

Harvest and Curing

Harvesting The best way to tell if your Cannabis plants are ready to harvest, both indoors and outdoors, is to look at the stigmas and trichomes. Stigma: The hair-like strands that cover the buds. They’ll turn from white to orange and will start to curl up when approaching readiness. Trichomes: The resinous glands all over…

Choosing Which Cannabis to Grow

Cannabis is a warm-season annual that’s been grown historically for fiber and its medicinal and psychotropic qualities. Its yield is primarily the flowering tops and buds, which are cured and dried. This material is smoked, vaporized or made into edibles and consumed for its effects on the endocannabinoid system in the body. The main cannabinoids…