Benefits To Growing Your Own Salad Greens

Benefits To Growing Your Own Salad Greens

Salads tend to be a summer staple in most households. They are a quick easy meal and you don’t have to heat up the house. Salad greens are an excellent and tasty addition to your lunchbox or dinner table any time of the year. They make the perfect light meal and are a...
How to Grow an Easy Salad Bowl

How to Grow an Easy Salad Bowl

Let’s talk about a salad bowl. No, I’m not talking about the glass bowl sitting in your kitchen cabinet that you serve salad in. I’m talking about bowls or pots that you can grow your own lettuce in. This is a perfect way to repurpose an old traditional salad bowl to...
Wonderful Benefits of Growing Yarrow

Wonderful Benefits of Growing Yarrow

Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) is a versatile perennial that can provide many benefits to your landscape. Yarrow is a great companion plant to have in a vegetable garden and it attracts pollinators. Ladybugs seem to be particularly drawn to yarrow which can be...
Microclimates Impact on Successful Gardening

Microclimates Impact on Successful Gardening

Each area that we live in has a unique microclimate that can impact our gardens. When you are new to gardening it can be overwhelming trying to figure out when to plant. The first place to look is to the USDA Hardiness Zone. Unfortunately, this isn’t always an...