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Removing Rust From Your Garden Tools
There’s a lot of confusion about the best home remedies to remove rust. Some of which are outright lies. And there’s a lot of products on the market made specifically to remove rust. Some of which can get quite expensive. So I wanted to do a little experiment on the home remedy side of things.
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How to Make a Frost Cover with Clothes Hanger Hoops
With the reduction in daylight hours, it’s getting colder out there, but my gardening season isn’t done yet. This winter, we’re performing a garden experiment that involves continuing the growing season through the winter months. As part of that experiment, we need to protect our plants from the coming frost, and possibility of snow. Frost…
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2023 Garden Visitors: All Creatures Great & Small
A garden is so much more than a place to grow plants. It’s also a communal place to spend time with nature. Of course, wildlife spends a fair amount of time there too. For a lot of gardeners, having creatures in our carefully prepared garden is a nuisance. Insects and animals alike quickly become pests…
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2023 Garden Year in Review
Performing an annual autumnal year in review is important because the past garden season is still fresh in your mind. You readily remember the pride and accomplishment of your harvest. You also still feel the painful sting of everything that went wrong.
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Performing A Garden Year In Review: Analyzing For Future Success
Performing an annual review on your garden can help you (and your garden) to perform better next year, overcome mistakes, and imagine new possibilities for the future. But how do you even start with such a review? There’s a few steps that I go through in my annual garden year in review that help plan…
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Overwintering: Extend the Garden Season by Bringing Your Plants Indoors
Overwintering is the process of manually maintaining temperature and light for your plants so to sustain a slow level of growth even in the plant’s usual period of dormancy. This can be done indoors during winter while the outdoor garden slumbers. If you plan to overwinter plants, bringing them indoors for the winter, you need…
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Propagating Prayer Plants by Stem Cuttings
Pruning your prayer plant (Maranta leuconera) should always be a part of the regular care of your plant. But propagating you prayer plant through stem cuttings is a fabulous method to get more out of your plant without harming the parent plant in the least. In fact, propagating your prayer plant can make your parent…
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Persephone Period and What It Means For Your Garden
When it comes to planning and managing your garden, you need to take seasonal light levels into account. Plants not only need sunlight for photosynthesis, but they also need the heat generated by the sun’s rays. While gardeners tend to think in terms of Spring, Summer, and Autumn, it is worthwhile to take sunlight levels…
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Green Tomatoes With Envy
Green tomatoes isn’t necessarily a tomato problem you need to overcome. But as the growing season grows to a close, the question arises: what to do with all those green tomatoes?
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Anthuriums by Seed: The Lifecycle of an Anthurium
Most gardeners acquire their anthurium as a fully-grown plant. If you’re looking to propagate your anthurium, its easiest to propagate by cuttings in water. But for the patient gardener looking for a challenge, or maybe even trying to create your own hybrid, you can propagate anthuriums by seed. In this post, I’m doing a deep…