When it comes to heirloom tomatoes you have a lot to choose from! Here are the best heirloom tomato varieties for you to try this year!

Flamboyant and fragrant, true lilies are easily grown in beds, containers, and the cutting garden. Learn how to plant and grow lilies on Gardener's Path.

Zucchini is one of the easiest plants for new gardeners to grow. With these seven helpful tips for growing zucchini plants, you will have a great harvest!

Let's talk how to grow and use Valerian. Valerian, a prolific perrenial herb sometimes referred to as "garden heliotrope", may be the sweetest smelling herb you can grow. The true beauty, however, of this flowering herb rests in its roots.

Propagating Christmas Cactus is fun and easy. There are many ways to root the cuttings. Today we will show you a technique that requires potting mix, your container of choice for growing them and some perlite. We have a left over Christmas Cactus that is done blooming for now and we want to make a

Where should we live? What should I do? How can we know? It's hard to know if something is from God! These 5 tried and true steps will help. #Prayer #BibleStudy #KnowGod'swill #CountingMyBlessings

Find out all you need to know to buy a healthy Philodendron Birkin plant, how to care for it, keep its lovely colors bright and tips for successful propagation.

Get help with insect garden pests! If you want some alternatives to just grabbing that bottle of pesticide chemical junk, read on.

Avoid making the same mistake many homeowners make by pruning perennials in fall. Learn which plants to leave alone for a thriving garden come spring.

Potato beetles can be a real pest in your garden. Don't miss these easy tips to get rid of potato beetles naturally and protect your garden!

Mexican bean beetles can cause so much damage to your bean plants. With these easy tips for Mexican bean beetle control you will learn how to get rid of bean beetles and control them naturally in your garden.

Yarrow, a delicate flowering herb with many uses and known by many names. This herb, with its magical roots, may very well be the most versatile herb we grow.

Sharing garden mulch ideas for you & how to lay down mulch to prevent weeds, start new garden beds and feed the soil and more!

Using cardboard and newspaper to smother grass to make a flower bed is easy and effective. It isn't too complicated, but you just need to…

Find out why your broccoli is flowering before growing a head. We cover causes and provide solutions to prevent broccoli bolting.

Fresh green beans are one of those things you won’t understand until you grow them yourself. Growing up we had canned green beans, in all their slimy, salt-laden glory. In college…

The top tips for how to grow more tomatoes in gardening zones 2 - 4. Lean how to grow more tasty roma and cherry tomatoes in a pot or in your garden.

For the last 5-10 years gardening with raised beds has seemingly been the most popular method of backyard gardening. It has been purported to solve…

Do you have a problem with whiteflies in your garden? This post gives tips on how to get rid of whiteflies in your garden.

Fall leaves are great for the health of your lawn and garden. Don't just toss them out; try using up your fall leaves in the garden!

After installing new sod for your lawn, should you mow it immediately? No.

Whether you’ve got a rooftop garden or half an acre in the backyard, these tried-and-true favorites will support your summer treasures.

Hello! And welcome to our Illustrated Guide on How To remove grass / clear sod for a garden or flower bed using a shovel, by…

Cozy up to this Whole30 Zuppa Toscana tonight! Packed with potatoes, sausage and fresh crunchy kale swimming in a lightly spiced broth, you'll think you're at Olive Garden (minus the guilt)! You'll fall in love with this healthy, dairy-free, gluten-free Olive Garden Zuppa Toscana copycat recipe once you give it a try.

This is the COMPLETE guide to growing Liatris Spicata, aka Blazing Star. What is it, benefits, native range, seed germination, corms, grow and care

Hostas come in many varieties. These easy hosta care tips will help ensure the hostas in your garden remain virtually maintenance free.

Do you know which fruits and vegetables grow when? These days we can purchase most fruits and vegetables all year long at the grocery store which certainly makes it harder to know what to plant during which season. When I first started gardening, I didn’t research which crops grow best during certain times of the […]

Most garden sites tell you to rip open the seed heads wearing leather gloves and using pliers. My method requires none of that, and will…

Ever have plans that go awry? Ha! Who am I kidding? A more impressive feat would be if someone had a project go totally and completely according to plan. My goal for the garden this month was simple: to lay down cardboard and mulch again. To perform a reboot of the garden space since we had let it go and weeds were the only thing growing. But that simple desire meant we had three major problems: no mulch, no cardboard, and huge stumps. As you recall from the January update, we dug one stump out of the ground and were working on burning down the other. We ended up burning it down in stages as our first couple attempts didn't work out quite as well as we hoped, but we learned some tricks. Tips for burning a stump: Pile up the charcoal. It works best when the pile is at least two briquettes deep. It allows the top to ash over and keep the ones underneath still red hot and burning down through the wood. If you have the ability, drill air holes. We would drill in from the side and then down from the top making sure the two tunnels met up. This helps provide oxygen for the fire so it keeps burning faster and longer. Combining these methods are effective, but can be dangerous. We ended up with a fire that stayed lit for 3 days. Hubby went out the second day and took his blower to scatter the ash build up to start again on fresh wood. Well the wood was still burning and it immediately turned to flame. He used that to his advantage by throwing more briquettes on the stump, but it could have been dangerous if it wasn't in a protected area of our yard. Between fires if there will be multiple take the time to blow away the ash, and take an axe to try and increase surface area and break away the stump. Remember the goal is to have the stump gone, not necessarily to burn the stump away. (Unless of course you have some marshmallows that need eating!) I thought people were crazy when they warned about stumps catching on fire, burning below ground and spreading fire through the roots. Now I can see how that could happen, so do take precautions. Our stump had chicken wire wrapped around it to contain the charcoal and prevent things from falling into it. It also was in a remote area of our yard with little risk of things falling into it. So be careful. We had plans for the stump removal, so that left cardboard and mulch. Surprisingly finding the cardboard was the easiest part of the whole ordeal. The first time we did this we had to scramble from store to store to find the cardboard and ended up with a few mattress boxes (which are ideal), but mostly used large and medium boxes from retailers. But a few weeks ago I had a work event around the corner from a mattress store. I decided to take a detour and saw that they had a bunch of boxes in their dumpster. I was going to impress Hubby by returning home with a full car, but the boxes were to big to fit. He was nice enough to come and help me load up the trailer. The mulch might be a little more time consuming. The straw will be easy, just a quick trip to the feed store to buy some bales. It's the wood chips will be more challenging. Last time we had a local tree company deliver a huge pile. It was too much really. There was enough to lay it around the coop, house AND the garden. I'm guessing we will have to drive to the tree lot and fill the trailer. Thankfully it is free, but it does mean moving yards and yards of wood chips on our own. So instead of having a garden ready to plant all I have is a whole in the ground, a fire hazard, a stack of cardboard, and no plants. Here's hoping the March update will be more fruitful and go according to plan! Shared on: Pretty Pintastic. Home Matters, Simple Homestead, Grandma's House DIY, Share The Wealth Pin for later:

Learn how to grow lettuce at home. It's easy, fast-growing and as a salad staple, lettuce is a must-have for your vegetable garden.

Saving Liatris Seeds is one the cheapest way to increase the number and propagate more Liatris plants in your yard, flower beds, or garden. One…

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These tips can help you to prevent cross-pollination to make sure that the seeds you are saving for the future are still true to type.