At my family’s farm, it originally had a huge orchard. Some of those trees still exist and provide an abundance to fruit every season from the transparent apples for applesauce to the fall September apples for pies, cakes, and just an everyday snack. My husband’s family loves their apples too. Every fall they gather up …
With a greenhouse structurally finished with a new greenhouse table along with some cool hardy snapdragons, it was time for potting up snapdragons and taking them to the greenhouse. This started with testing to see if the snapdragons and other cool hardy plants would survive in the low tunnel in the greenhouse. Another trial was …
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With the start of spring, a structurally finished greenhouse, and both grow light stands at full capacity, it was time to build a greenhouse a table. But here’s the crazy thing- I didn’t have spring weather to build this table. It was not only a bit cold, but it was snowing on both days of …
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Last year when planting our strawberries at our current property, I designed the strawberry beds 3’ x 10’ with 3’ wide walkways in-between. I had an idea to plant the strawberries in landscape fabric originally, but the goal was for my husband to rototill between the rows to prevent weeds. This was the first year …
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I absolutely love pheasant breast meat. I’ve never hunted pheasant before, but my husband loves hunting them. Many hunters will hunt with dogs to chase them out of the grasses or to retrieve them from the fields. We don’t have a hunting dog; if we did, as much as my husband would train it, I …
Snapdragons are started very early with tiny seeds. When I tried to grow these seeds my first year, I had no idea how successful they would be or not. After starting snapdragons, growing, and harvesting for my first season, I find them entirely easy to start and grow and they are my absolute favorite for …
Seed starting itself is not hard, per se. Plant seeds. Provide light or darkness with heat and humidity. Move on if the seeds don’t germinate. Caring for seedlings indoors, newly germinated, is a new ball game. It is a part of seed starting- the baby step after starting the seeds. Don’t miss out on learning …
I came across a meme that fits exactly into my train of thoughts. “Gardening isn’t just a hobby – it’s a way of life that will change you forever!” Absolutely agree! Defining “Hobby” With a simple Google search of “hobby definition,” the first result is from the Oxford Language stating a hobby is “an activity …
My first cut flower garden was rows after rows of zinnias that, welp, I never ended up cutting. I saw a neighbor plant zinnia in their vegetable garden and wanted to do something similar. I used a large bag of zinnias with fertilizer from Tractor Supply. Besides hoeing rows for this zinnia mix, I did …
For years, I was stuck in the mindset that a garden gets planted every May, for our northern, mountainous region in the Alleghenies. After a few seasons of planting peas early, it opened up the window of some early spring planting. Uniquely, companion planting peas with strawberries. We do rototill our garden. Although it could …