Starting a garden takes dedication. It also takes at least a few basic tools. The exact ones you need depend on the kind of gardening you’re doing… for example, if you’re only growing an indoor garden or container garden you won’t need a full-size shovel, but one is highly practical for most outdoor gardens.
You will want a trowel
Pick a well made trowel with a comfortable grip. There are all kinds of grips made so that the trowel will be more comfortable to use. (more…)
Organic gardening is more than just hype. It’s a great way to give your family the healthiest food you can grow at home, no chemicals added.
Going organic can sound tough. It is indeed more work to make a compost pile than to run to the garden shop for chemical fertilizers. But it has some definite benefits.
A simple benefit of composting is that you are saving money. You’re taking food scraps that you would have thrown out and making use of them. For many families, saving money is a big deal. It’s better for the earth as well as for your family. (more…)
Sprouting seeds indoors is certainly working well this year. We’ve had quite a few sprout already. Just have to hope that none of them get gnawed by a mystery bug again this year. Last year we lost a few to that.
I’m just delighted to see things growing already. The weather here is riduculously warm just now, although if we’re lucky we’ll get some rain this weekend. But in the meantime I’m taking advantage of not needing to heat the room the seeds are in to warm the soil. Air temperatures in that room are at about 80 degrees during the day with the window open right now. It’s pretty nice. (more…)
I’ve been neglecting this site for a while now. Just kind of lost interest for a time while we weren’t actively gardening, especially after such a disappointing year.
It’s been an interesting winter. We’ve had freezing weather, which is highly unusual for our area. I’m talking half inch of ice on the kids’s sandbox, which we had filled with water once we realized how much freezing we were getting. It was pretty amazing. (more…)
