Category: Gardening How To

Ranunculus is a flower that tops the charts in more ways that I can even count. It’s every bride’s first choice for wedding flowers. It’s got the most ridiculous name of any I know. It […]

Here in the height of summer, flowers from the garden abound. It’s around this time of year that I start trying to think ahead to the long winter that’s quickly approaching. Drying flowers from my […]

If your gardens are anything like mine, they’ve burst into bloom with more flowers than you know what to do with. The wet winter and long spring felt like they would never end this year, […]

Last fall, I decided to grow my little farm and go big with a field of peonies. Some say they don’t grow well in our area, but I had already grown a few hundred with […]

What a week it’s been in the North Bay! I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’ve been busy just keeping my field and greenhouse watered down. I’m not even thinking about the […]

Who out there has made fabulous plans for mother’s day? And who plans to just throw something together last minute, solving problems of procrastination with a last-minute bouquet and maybe prayers for a short a […]

At my farm, we just finished up the first round of seeding in the greenhouse to get ready for all our heat-tolerant summer crops. Some of these crops just take so long to grow, that […]

With this past week’s stressful forecast of more rain, my heart sunk as I looked out over the already-saturated fields. Farmers all around the area are struggling to keep their employees busy, finding inside work […]

In my last post, we began our new series, How To Start A Garden, with some back end planning work. I suggested that you get a soil test done, draw a map of your space, […]

In this series of posts, we’re going to dive into the process of building a garden from the ground up. It can be pretty overwhelming to move into a new space and set out to […]