Homegrown cantaloupe tastes better than candy. It is my most favorite plant to grow in my garden, but the last two years, they have taken over my small little garden box and spilled into my yard. I was nearly panicked to think of a summer without growing cantaloupes, but I just didn’t know where I […]
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I was able to plant my herbs in my square foot garden on Monday, before the rains came in. My veggies will have to wait another day. I expanded my herbs this year. I have always planted parsley and rosemary, but this year I added a few more. Along with those two, I have dill, […]
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We have done a lot of renovations around our home in the last ten years. The DIY project that we are most proud of is the landscaping in our front yard. I wrote about the process 2 years ago and it is still my most popular post. Read more about our Front Yard Landscaping: We […]
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Last year, I chronicled my box garden conversion from random planting to the more calculated method, known as Square Foot Gardening. I had great success, but at the end of the season, I vowed that in 2011, I was going to replace all of the dirt in my box with new soil following the Square […]
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Local, homegrown fruit could just possibly be my most favorite thing in the entire world. I have been trying for years to add more fruit to my garden space. I’ve had some successes and some colossal failures. But I refuse to give up. 1. Cantaloupes I have had tremendous success with growing cantaloupes. The sweetest, […]
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Have you ever wondered how to start and maintain a backyard compost? My composting adventures all started years ago when our local Penn State Cooperative Extension office offered a free composting bin (the round one in the picture) when you attended their free composting seminar. It sounded like a win-win for me, so I signed up. […]
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Once again, I am stumped by my own back yard. My readers have helped me identify flowers and vegetables and now I need help identifying a bug. As I was working in my yard, I noticed a cardinal flapping around on the ground. At first I thought it was injured, because it was really chirping […]
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Once again, I am calling on my knowledgeable readers to help me figure out a gardening problem. I have no idea whether these plants are weeds or flowers. And if they are flowers, what kind of flowers are they? This is at least the second year they have sprouted up, but I don’t remember planting […]
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A few weeks ago, I was being impatient with my garden. My zucchini plant was huge and had a ton of flowers, but not one single zucchini. The plant had grown so big that it was taking over the garden and yard. But what I assumed was a zucchini plant is actually not a zucchini […]
READ MORE >>Freeze Your Garden Produce Now and You’ll Be Thanking Yourself Later
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The summer harvest is underway and I am starting to get over-loaded with some vegetables from my garden, our CSA and from the gardens of friends and family. All of this wonderful produce at the height of its flavor needs to be preserved so that we can enjoy it later in the year. I don’t […]
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