Vertical gardening is the perfect answer to growing vining crops. Vining crops would include watermelon, cucumber, tomatoes and more. Vertical support is the key to vertical gardening and is quite easy to achieve! You need lots of room when you grow vining vegetables like melons, squash, cucumbers and pumpkins. If you don’t have the growing [...]

Juicy delicious tomatoes – these fruits (yes, they are a fruit, not a vegetable) are perfect in so many savory recipes. I love to use fresh tomatoes is bruschetta, homemade pasta sauce and sliced on burgers and sandwiches.  So many types of tomatoes to choose from as well such as: Beefsteak, Big Boy, and Cherry [...]

I’m not sure about you, but I live in a place where snow in winter is not an uncommon thing. In fact it is so common that backyard ice rinks are common and so are winter tires and antifreeze.  For a few months of the year, my little piece of earth can safely be called [...]

Every year, as I stumble to the cash register under a dozen plants, I often forget to grab the fertilizer that I prefer to use.  I mean, there are a hundred and one different things that I like to buy for my garden every year and I tend to forget about purchasing anything else, except [...]

You may be wondering what I am doing writing about Christmas trees in January but the fact is, this is actually a perfect time to discuss Christmas trees, or more specifically, what you can do with your Christmas Trees.  Every year, after Christmas and New Years has come and gone, most people will pull off [...]