Cheat Nature with Season Extension
Late winter and early spring are some of my favorite times. The air is crisp and fresh like no other time and you can almost feel life being breathed back…
Category: Gardening
Gardening 101: Garden Planning Pt. 2
The days are getting longer (if not warmer) and even though the snow is still flying all across the country, it’s high-time to begin the real work of gardening! We’ve…
Garden 101 Series: Garden Planning Pt. 1
Whether you’re starting your first garden or your fiftieth, and no matter if it’s a couple pots on a sunny windowsill or a permaculture food forest, garden planning is an…
Top 5 Seed Catalogs to Help You Plan Your Dream Garden
January is our favorite month to begin thumbing through the catalogs and dreaming of exotic new fruits and vegetables to place in our plots, so to help all our growers (maybe) avoid a little bit of that madness, we’ve compiled some of our favorite seed catalogs to browse.
Water, Water Everywhere
Setting up an automatic irrigation system for your medium to large garden Water is perhaps the most critical ingredient for life as we know it, and perhaps no where is…
The Best Vegetables to Sow Directly in Your Spring Garden RIGHT NOW
We’re not sure what April is really like in all the different climate zones across the world, but here in our little corner of planet earth, April is drunk. One…
Best Indoor Seed Starting Container Choices to Get Growing This Spring
Spring seed starting season is among the most exciting and eventful times in the life cycle of the gardener. March and April are a great time in much of the…
Video: Lockdown Diaries Week One
On Friday March 13, 2020 Illinois became one of the first states to announce school closings because of COVID-19. The closings would begin March 17th, which was the following Tuesday.…
