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This is one of my favorite gardening tricks – and a great solution for that “where did I plant what” puzzlement you might experience when looking at your garden. Carrots (and spinach, and beets) take a long time to germinate, and I often lost sight of where I planted rows, especially when I’m working with Read More 
Craig here – I thought I’d share some progress shots of my garden as a whole. My early-planted kales, cabbages, and other cole crops are doing well. Salads have jumped up due to the rain and heat! I’ll be harvesting this mix soon – how are your lettuce and cole crops doing? Mixed Kales 
Moskvich Tomato Direct seeding experiment with tomatoes, direct seeded on April 27th. Every year I like to try something different in my garden. This year’s experiment was to take crops that I would normally start indoors and direct seed them. Because of cool weather it took the seed a while to come up, Read More 
Lots of us have find gardening to be good for the soul – there’s something relaxing about digging in the dirt, and watching a seed grow to its full-size can be truly inspiring. But, do you think of gardening as good for the body, as well? National Gardening Exercise Day is intended to recognize the Read More 
This is the time of year that ants are hungry and looking to get the colony moving with the incoming warm weather. Typically, you find ants all over the house – I have fielded a lot of questions on what to use. I took this picture late last night and you can see 2 of Read More 
Envy Carrots grown from seed mat Seed Mat – Radish If you haven’t tried our seed mats before, they’re a really simple way of laying out your garden and growing vegetables quickly. Each mat contains soil and seeds; simply place the mat in the garden and provide adequate water – they practically grow Read More 
We all want to see butterflies and bumblebees in the garden – but did you know that some of those less-than-beautiful bugs might be helping your plants thrive? Can you identify a lacewing – and, more importantly, can you attract them to your garden? One of our favorite gardening associations put out this list of Read More 
The Cardboard Garden is a test picked up from gardeners in England that use cardboard laid down first and mounded with compost and soil. This is to help avoid weeds and eliminates the need to roto-till, which wreaks havoc with soil life. For the soil, I used recycled nursery media. The test is planted Read More 
An update from the Gardens Alive! test garden! Peppers are transplanted and grown here at our test garden. I have 2 test varieties, one hot and one sweet and the others are Tabasco. I will harvest the Tabasco peppers in the fall and make Tabasco sauce with them. It takes 2 years for the mash Read More 
Many gardeners know that keeping plants safe in their earliest stages can be tough. This year, Gardens Alive! is selling the plant protectors we use in our test gardens! Thermal Plant Protectors are a simple, cost-efficient way to protect your seedlings and small trees from the elements. Gardens Alive owner and founder Niles Kinerk uses Read More |
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