I shared in a previous post about my top five gardening fails and growing from them. I’m going to continue sharing my fails to help you not make the same, encourage you to keep going even if you fail with something, and to always keep learning from gardening. The only way you will fail with …
When gardening, it is not going to be perfect. Plants are living things, and they can die. A lot of hard work, time, and energy goes into gardening, but things happen where the plants do end up dying. Sometimes it is the cause of our own hands. Other times, the weather, bugs, rodents, or whatever …
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 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 …
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 …
The summer before we moved to our current homestead, I was sick and tired of being squished while picking tomatoes and peppers and having loads of weeds in my cut flower garden. I wasn’t designing a garden before planting at this time. My husband helped take care of the weeds, but I wanted something different. …