Category: Grow

  • Growing Cayenne Plants 

    Growing Cayenne Plants 

    A Spicy Little Adventure If you’re looking to add a little heat to your garden, growing cayenne plants is a fantastic place to start. These fiery peppers are easy to grow and so productive once they get going. If you’re using them simply for fresh and dried peppers, 1 or 2 plants can easily accommodate.…

  • How to Prune Tomatoes 

    How to Prune Tomatoes 

    Without Feeling Like a Villain Tomato plants are a lot like excited puppies. Give them a bit of sun, some water, and a little fertilizer, and before you know it…BAM!  They’re growing in every direction possible. Now you have a tomato bush, not so much a plant. While all the growth is pretty impressive, a…

  • Growing Green Beans

    Growing Green Beans

    Whether you grow pole beans or bush beans, green beans are basically the overachievers of the garden world. They’re easy to grow, beginner-friendly, and somehow manage to look productive even when the rest of the garden is throwing a mid-season tantrum. Plus, they’re packed with nutrients and can sneak their way into just about any…

  • 9 Heat-Tolerant Herbs & Spices

    9 Heat-Tolerant Herbs & Spices

    There are lots of options for heat-tolerant herbs and spices, but let’s stick to the useful ones that you and your family will actually consume. Whether it’s in the kitchen or the medicine cabinet, these herbs are some of the most useful that can really hang in there in the warmer zones.   Many of…

  • 9 Heat-Tolerant Veggies

    9 Heat-Tolerant Veggies

    Keep in mind that “tolerance” doesn’t mean they won’t suffer a bit or that they will be low maintenance. Some will require more water to survive the heat. Some will be slower-growing during the hottest parts of Summer or droop during the heat of the day. But these guys are still your best bet in…

  • Low-Maintenance Herbs

    Low-Maintenance Herbs

    Don’t have much time to fuss? Sometimes we want a garden. You love the idea of green food or organic vegetables from the yard, but don’t have the time to be out there every day, checking, watering, weeding. With work, kids, life, we don’t all have that sort of extra time. Or maybe you don’t…

  • Low-Maintenance Veggies

    Low-Maintenance Veggies

    Don’t have much time to fuss? Sometimes we want a garden. You love the idea of green food or organic vegetables from the yard, but don’t have the time to be out there every day, checking, watering, weeding. With work, kids, life, we don’t all have that sort of extra time. Or maybe you don’t…

  • How to Grow Your Own Luffa!!

    How to Grow Your Own Luffa!!

    All-natural, plant-based sponges for your home Yes. You can grow your own sponges! No. These are not the ocean-based invertebrates. We are not killing SpongeBob! That would be rude. These guys are a large, vine-like plant that grows long fruits and are technically in the gourd family. However, when they’re growing, especially when they’re still…

  • How to Grow Your Own Sprouts!

    How to Grow Your Own Sprouts!

    Why eat & Grow Sprouts? Why wouldn’t you?! It’s easy and they’re packed full of nutrients. Not to mention the satisfaction of growing things yourself. Like micro greens, sprouts are rich in vitamins and minerals as well as being high in fiber AND they contain antioxidants.  They are a good source of plant based protein…

  • How to Grow Microgreens for Fresh Greens Year-Round

    How to Grow Microgreens for Fresh Greens Year-Round

    Why grow your own micros?  Why wouldn’t you?! They’re higher in nutrients than their fully grow counter parts. You get to grow them year round and they take up very little space. Not to mention the satisfaction of growing things yourself. Come on. Growing things is fun! The nutritional benefits are through the roof!  For…