August 30, 2015

What is good soil?

  Every gardener instinctively knows that you need good soil if you want your garden to flourish. There is always advice handed out that if you […]
August 8, 2015

Grow Your Best Tasting Greens In The Fall

What do I mean when I say greens? For me it is any leafy green vegetable that you grow mainly to eat the leaves. Collards, Kale, […]
July 5, 2015

Build a self watering container for your plants

Watering plants in containers is very different than watering plants planted in the ground. First you have less soil volume in a container and second the […]
June 27, 2015

Tips on Watering your Garden

What New plants and seed need almost daily watering when it is warm. Plants need more water when they are forming fruits and vegetables. Larger shrubs […]
June 21, 2015

Soil Ph

What is Ph and why should I care about it?  Our body has an ideal Ph and in fact we can not vary from the ideal […]
June 14, 2015

The Birds and the Bees

Pollination in the Garden I don’t know if you know this or not but there is a lot of sex going on in your garden. Without […]