EIGHT TIPS TO SUCCESSFULLY GROW HERBS Give Them Some Sun – Most herbs thrive in six hours or more of sun per day. An exception is basil, which prefers a little shade. Condition Your Soil – Fertile soil and drainage are very important because you want to harvest as much as possible. If you’re…
HOW TO PLANT A GARLIC SEED 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…
HOW TO PLANT A POTATO SEED A+ Garden center offers several of the tastiest fingerling, traditional baking and red potato varieties. This half hardy vegetable is a culinary staple and yet is overlooked by many backyard gardeners. The taste and texture of home-grown potatoes are far superior to store bought, especially the early varieties. They…
HOW TO PLANT AN ONION SEED Onions are a cool-season crop, easy to grow because of their hardiness. We carry onion sets, which can be planted without worry of frost damage and have a higher success rate than direct seed. Sets are onions that were harvested prematurely and stored over winter. Another option we carry,…
It’d be tempting to dismiss Straw Bale Gardening as a fad that has come and gone, but the truth is it may be an answer to several gardening problems you may have. Do you have rocky, uneven or unyielding clay soil? Are you unable or unwilling to dig up a big plot of ground to…