Grow Your Own

Whether you love flowers, fruits, veggies, herbs, or all of the above, follow our step-by-step guides to growing them organically in the comfort of your own home.

How To Prune And Stake Zucchini Plants

Catherine Sherriffs

A zucchini plant is a lazy gardener’s crop. For very little work, the payout (AKA the yield) is enormous, and nothing beats the taste of one fresh out of the garden. But it turns out I may have been a little too lazy growing this crop in past years and that zucchini plants can benefit…

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Plants You Can Grow In Just Water

Do you have a container and some water? Great. You now have pretty much all you need to start growing some plants in your home. What about the dirt, you ask? Well, for the plants I am going to tell you about, the soil isn’t needed! It may take a little longer than using old…
July 15, 2020
Jesse Singer

Gardeners And Artists Have Much In Common

Sometimes, I feel like being a gardener is much like being an artist. The more I think about it, the more similarities I see between the two.  Like an artist, a gardener must try to mentally visualize their work in completion long before the work has even begun.  Like an artist, the gardener must draw…
June 10, 2020
Kyle L. Ladenburger

How To Grow Potatoes In Containers And Buckets

There’s nothing like the taste of a freshly harvested potato! It’s unlike anything you’ll get at the stores. And guess what? You don’t need a whole lot of gardening space to grow them. They do very well in containers!  You will need: Organic seed potatoes  Some 5 to 10-gallon buckets or containers Good soil Water…
May 27, 2020
Catherine Sherriffs

Looking For Seeds And Can’t Find Any? No Need To Panic

First, it was hand sanitizer. Then toilet paper. Then canned goods and other grocery items. Whether it was hoarding, not enough stock to begin with, or a combination of both – we’ve grown accustomed recently to seeing empty shelves in various sections of our local stores and ridiculous prices on certain items via online retailers.…
April 15, 2020
Jesse Singer
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Growing Purple Fruits And Vegetables In The Garden

The color purple is said to evoke many emotions, among them, peace, pride, creativity, and magic. It isn’t as common as other colors in nature, and so it’s also seen as exotic. Beyond the emotions purple makes us feel, eating the color also offers significant rewards!  Fruits and vegetables with purple or red pigments contain…
April 8, 2020
Catherine Sherriffs