Category: 🌿 Growing

An Easy Beginner’s Guide Cucumbers are a great choice for beginner gardeners. Give them warm weather, plenty of sunlight, and consistent water, and they can grow surprisingly fast! Sometimes a little too fast. One day, you have a cute little cucumber plant. A week later, it has grabbed the tomato cage, climbed the fence, and…

A Beginner’s Guide to Sweet and Spicy Success Peppers are one of my favorite vegetables to grow. They are colorful, useful in the kitchen, and available in everything from sweet bell peppers to varieties hot enough to make you question every decision that led you to that first bite. The good news? Growing peppers is…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…