If you’re aiming for self-sufficiency on a low budget, and in a relatively small garden there is no better plant to grow than zucchini. Even tiny balcony gardens can accommodate a planter with one zucchini plant, and by the end of summer, you’ll have harvested so much that you’re sick of them! In this article,…
So many gardeners these days love to grow special heirloom variety plants for many different reasons. I get it, heirlooms have a lot of great qualities. But, what about their not-so-great qualities? Growing heirloom seeds can come with disadvantages like pest and disease susceptibility, slow development, low fruit production, labor intensiveness, and their ability to…
One of the things that I look forward to the most at the beginning of the gardening season is purchasing seeds. There are always so many to choose from and I always try to grow something that I’ve never grown before as a fun experiment. But, if you’re anything like me when I first started…
These days, there are so many different labels on seed packets that it’s hard to know what exactly they all mean, especially when we see the non-GMO label. GMO seeds are seeds that have been genetically modified to produce a desired trait within that plant. GMO seeds are only available commercially and therefore not something…
In recent years, we’ve become more and more self-sufficient, growing most of our fresh produce at home, leaving enough to preserve for winter. The only plant we grow purely for joy (and therefore receive significant gluts of) is tomato. Planning for the year ahead means knowing how many tomatoes to expect per plant, and the…
Indoor plants do attract bugs, but those bugs are rarely harmful to humans, and relatively unintrusive to plants. Whether you’re growing seedlings indoors, on a windowsill, or under heat lamps, they will always be a space where bugs congregate. Those bugs can be aphids, thrips, whitefly, spider mites, spiders, slugs, or anything else. If it…