What I Do With My Lavender Harvest
Lavender is a lovely and popular flowering herb. The lavender I grow in my garden is Lavandula angustifolia, also known as English Lavender. The variety I have is called Hidcote,…
Growing Guide
How I Use Homemade Leaf Mold in My Garden
I have written before about how I make leaf mold in my garden. But today, I thought it would be useful to share how I use the leaf mold that…
Tips for a Fabulous Fall Garden
A fall garden can be a great and bounteous place—not a space that makes us mourn for the glory days of summer but somewhere that allows us to revel in…
Tracing Food Chains in a Garden Can Lead to Surprising Lessons
Every garden, no matter how large or small, has at least some features of a functioning ecological system. By tracing the food chains in a garden, we can learn to…
How to Harvest and Store Winter Squash and Pumpkins
If you have grown squash or pumpkins in your garden, then the last thing that you want is for that produce to go to waste. Avoiding waste means thinking carefully…