As I mentioned last week there are many benefits of composting, the most important is the benefit to your garden. Composting doesn’t have to be hard or labor intensive. You can keep it simple with a small compost bucket next to your sink for vegetable scraps, egg shells, coffee grinds, anything that’s not cooked. OnceContinue reading “My Garden: Why Compost Continued.”
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My Garden: Why Compost?
Did you know that by composting you could save money by using less fertilizer and watering less? Did you know that your plants in the garden would grow healthier and be stronger? These are just two of the benefits of composting. In the wild composting occurs when the leaves fall of the trees and decomposeContinue reading “My Garden: Why Compost?”
My Garden: Making Your Own Seed Starting Mix
Starting your own seeds is one way to save money in your gardening costs. Another way is to make your own seed starting mixture. A variety of materials may be used to germinate seeds and root cuttings. These mixtures must be sterile and must meet certain other criteria. They must be firm and dense enoughContinue reading “My Garden: Making Your Own Seed Starting Mix”
My Garden – Repotting a Peace Lily
Before I get into making my own seed starting mixture there are a few things I have to do regarding my houseplants! When I can’t work outside in the garden I tend to focus on my houseplants and take care of them. I’ve already transplanted my orchids and my aloe but one plant still toContinue reading “My Garden – Repotting a Peace Lily”
My Garden: What Seeds to Order?
As I mentioned last week, this is the time of year when seed catalogs start to arrive in your mailbox, full of bright glossy pictures of various vegetables and flowers that you can grow in your garden. Perhaps you’ve never had a garden before or have only purchased plants from a garden center but hisContinue reading “My Garden: What Seeds to Order?”
Gardening: Seed Catalogs
Late December is not a time to be working in the garden in Vermont but it is a time to be planning next years garden. One of my favorite occupations in the winter is to sit by the woodstove and read through the new garden catalogs! Some of them have the best copywriters and canContinue reading “Gardening: Seed Catalogs”
Gardening: Overwintering a Geranium
Did you know that you could keep your geranium alive over the winter and enjoy it again in the spring? Geraniums can be grown indoors easily as long as you give them proper care and keep them in the right conditions. Before the first frost cut your plant back to half of its original size.Continue reading “Gardening: Overwintering a Geranium”
Gardening: Forcing Bulbs – Update
Before Thanksgiving I wrote a post on forcing bulbs. I set up several containers of bulbs and placed them in a cool spot while we went away. Was I ever surprised when we got home and I saw all the green shoots coming up out of the bulbs! The bulbs were so healthy they hadContinue reading “Gardening: Forcing Bulbs – Update”
My Garden: Transplanting Orchids
Transplanting Orchids Transplanting orchids is not hard. If you have orchids eventually they will need to be transplanted. My daughter gave me three orchids that she rescued from her place of employment. The business where she worked would purchase orchids when they were blooming to decorate with. Later when they were finished blooming they wereContinue reading “My Garden: Transplanting Orchids”
My Garden: Visiting a West Coast Garden
Thanksgiving week was spent on the west coast visiting our daughter and son-in-law. I always enjoy seeing other parts of the country and while we were on the west coast we took a side trip to Eugene, Oregon to visit a friend of my husband’s. They’ve known each other since the age of four! HeContinue reading “My Garden: Visiting a West Coast Garden”
Nancy on the Home Front 