Growing Cover Crops in the Home Garden The tail end of the growing season, when you’re putting your garden to bed for the offseason, is a perfect time to start a cover crop. And it’s pretty much as easy as sprinkling some seeds around and walking away. The cover crop Read more
About Each Cover Crop Cover Crops are one of the best things you can do for your soil, but how do you choose which one is best for your unique situation? Here’s some information about the most common cover crops to help get you started. Grasses for Winter (in order Read more
Purchasing Cover Crop Seed Once you know how much you need, purchase your cover crop from one of several options: You can purchase most cover crop seeds from local stores. Smaller, mom-and-pop stores that also sell farm and animal keeping products (like feed and feed and watering containers) or local Read more
Planting cover crops is one of the best things you can do for your soil, but how do you choose which one is best for your unique situation? Choosing a Cover Crop Since there are so many options, choosing a cover crop is kind of like picking out clothing: How Read more
In the tables below, however, I include planting rates in pounds per 100 ft.2 (~10m2) and 1,000 ft.2 (~100m2)—instead of only in pounds per acre, as is typical—since those sizes are much closer to their actual sizing and easier to convert for home gardeners. I’ll leave this as a note Read more
Easy Companion Groupings to Get Started To make getting started with companion planting easier, here are three combinations of common vegetable garden plants listed in order of what they do well next to: COMPANION COMBINATION ONE Carrots Tomato & Onions Onions & Carrots Peppers Carrots (w/ early Radishes) Lettuce (w/ Read more
Planting Times In terms of their preferred, and in some cases required, growing temperature, plants fall into two main groups: cool-season plants and warm-season plants. Cool-Season Because cool-season plants can take a light frost but get severely stressed and often bolt and go to seed when temperates get over 80 Read more
Finding Your Last Frost Date To find your specific, local average last frost date in the spring, you can click on any of the links below. Each will take you to a page with resources to help you find yours. You can also just Google it. A Wonderful Map https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/last-spring-freeze Read more
The Four Main Needs of All Garden Plants Plants’ Four Main Needs All plants everywhere have four main needs. They need a certain That’s it. Thrive In Correct Combination And each plant on earth thrives in a different combination of those four: And everything in between. So a certain… If Read more
Gardening Can Be Easy Gardening Can Seem Hard Gardening can seem hard. I know. Every time I try to teach someone about a piece of it, I’m reminded how complicated it can be. It seems like there are a million variables, each with dozens of connected parts. Especially if you’re Read more