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…
While these are known for their deer resistance, it is important to remember that no plant is completely guaranteed to be deer-proof.Factors like the availability of other food sources or their level of hunger can affect their browings behavior. It is always a good idea to monitor and protect your newly planted vegetation until it…
There may be snow still on the ground, but March and April are still a great time to start planning and getting ready for the spring. In no particular order, many gardeners start to plan their gardens, get their seeds, start their seeds, get their tools ready, prune trees or shrubs and check their houseplants.…
Have some plastic milk jugs, egg shells, coffee grounds, or broken pots laying around? Well don’t throw them away, use them this year in your garden. There are multiple ways you can help keep the old gardening tools from landing up in the landfill for Global Recycling Day. Here are just a few fun ways…
Have your houseplants been away on summer vacation? We love adding their tropical lushness to our porches and patios. However winter is coming and it’s time to start preparing the ones you brought outside to come back indoors. Don’t worry–we’ll tell you everything you need to know! As the days get shorter and temps…
Here are some guides to help you get started on planting your garden! Companion planting is like nature’s symphony in the garden. It’s strategically placing plants that support and enhance each other’s growth. From marigolds warding off pests to tomatoes and basil teaming up for flavor-packed harmony, it’s a green collaboration. This gardening…
What’s Up With Watering? All plants need water, and new plants need the most as they’re getting their roots established. But how to water sustainably? We have some ideas: Collect rainwater: Plants love rainwater, so set some 5-gallon buckets out when we’re expecting a good rainfall to collect it or add a rain barrel or…
HOW TO PLANT GARLIC Why grow garlic at home? Because its creamy, nut-like, fresh-from-the-garden-flavor is heavenly! Garlic is easy to grow and produces numerous bulbs after a long growing season. It is frost tolerant. Beyond its intense flavor and culinary uses, “the stinking rose” is good in the garden as an insect repellent and has…
Pruning Spring Flowering Shrubs Pruning can benefit landscape plants by maintaining size, promoting flowering, removing dead and diseased limbs, focusing growth on younger or more vigorous stems and helping to control insect and disease problems. However, timing can be critical on flowering shrubs, especially spring blooming shrubs. Spring flowering shrubs, like viburnums, lilacs…
Handling and Planting “Bare Root” Plants in the Home Landscape Chances are good that you’ve bought or ordered bare root plants before — those plants that come with no soil around their roots. Lots of plants are sold as bare root plants, including some roses, ornamental trees and shrubs, fruit trees, asparagus, and some perennials.…