You’ve probably had that moment driving through a quaint neighborhood, looking out the window, and doing a double-take when you encountered a perfectly adorable garden. But what made it perfect wasn’t an organized row of flowers or an overly planned design. It was more of a natural explosion of color, …

Read more The Essence & Essentials of Cottage Gardening

If there is one group of people known for their ability to stretch their dollars and let nothing go to waste it’s gardeners! Not only does it leave more money for fun and new heirloom seeds to try, it’s good practice to make the most of what we have. Isn’t …

Read more 6 Common Items With Unexpected Uses In Your Garden

If you’ve been following along with our recent posts about raised bed gardening, you likely remember we promised you a great way to use less soil in your raised garden beds with a trick we would reveal in an upcoming post! Well this is it! We’re excited to share this …

Read more This One German Gardening Trick Can Save You Water—And Money

When most think of a garden, they think of finely manicured soil with neat rows of beautiful plants surrounded by a picturesque fence. Anyone who has gardened knows this type of garden requires a lot of herbicide or work and is not that easy to maintain for someone who has …

Read more 4 Reasons To Build Raised Garden Beds

Let’s face it, sometimes our efforts to create balance and avoid a hoard of hungry pests from destroying our plants and compromising all of our hard work simply doesn’t work out as planned. In this case, you might consider calling in the big guns with chemical pesticides to eradicate the …

Read more 5 Natural Methods of Pest Control

Congratulations, you made it through another year of gardening! We hope you enjoyed beautiful blooms, bountiful harvests, and the satisfaction that you created something beautiful at your home. As the growing season comes to a close, one area of your garden that you can still work on is your tools. …

Read more Offseason Garden Tool Audit: How to Choose the Right Tools for Your Garden

If you’re just getting in to gardening, you may think mulch is simply a way to make a garden bed look orderly and neat. While this is certainly a great benefit of mulching your beds, the real reasons are far greater for your plants than they are for the aesthetics …

Read more Mulch Matters: 3 Very Good Reasons to Mulch Your Beds

Deer: KEEP OUT! If Bambi likes to chow down on your vegetable plants and maybe strip your rose buds before they open, here’s great news. Years ago, the second spring after I had just created a new garden with expensive rose bushes and a big vegetable patch, it happened. Deer …

Read more Gardeners’ Best-Kept Secret on How to Make Your Whole Garden Deer-Resistant

First, save money and order lots of glads during our Winter Advance Sale.  Then after frosts, plant the glads in successive weeks for at least a month, some each week.  Result:  Flowers to enjoy or cut for over two months in summer. Imagine the arrangements! This is something few gardeners …

Read more How to trick your Glads into four times the bloom.