The sun is ghosting us, the days are shorter, and most garden coaches are screaming, “Stop feeding your plants!” Why? When the light is right and the temperatures stay steady, many indoor tropicals look at the calendar and scoff at the mere idea of dormancy. Forcefeeding a sleeping plant is rude, but starving a wide-awake…
Amaryllis is one of the easiest bulbs to grow indoors, but it still gives people trouble. Every year I hear the same questions: “Why isn’t mine blooming?” or “What went wrong this time?” and it almost always comes down to a few simple mistakes. If your amaryllis is refusing to bloom or only putting out leaves, don’t worry….
For gardeners, December can feel like an unusual month. For starters, the temperature and environmental conditions make it harder to sow a lot of popular plants, so many just choose to sit back and wait this month out. But you don’t have to! In today’s article, I’m going to show you exactly how you can…
Back in the day, my mom and I used to mark our calendars for when we had to dig up bulbs from the backyard, and now, it’s almost like I’ve developed an intuition for it. Having worked with hundreds of different bulbs, I can say with confidence that I know which bulbs to dig up…
I’ve written about everything from plants, shrubs, and herbs to succulents, but microgreens were a topic I kept putting off, since I didn’t have much experience with them! But, for about a year now, my mom and I have been playing around with microgreens, and in today’s article, I’m going to share with you all…
Do your flowers always seem to bloom later than you’d like each spring? Only if you could get a slight head start… oh wait: you can! In today’s article, I’ll be taking you through a comprehensive list of flowers you can sow in winter to achieve an incredibly beneficial head start in spring. Let’s get…