Tag Archive: garden culture

Out In The Greenhouse: These Warm-Season Crops Will Thrive

Catherine Sherriffs

The list of food crops and flowers that do well in a greenhouse is endless. Seriously, it goes on forever. Being a first-time greenhouse grower, I’m just getting my feet wet, but so far, I’m amazed by how much my ‘she-shed’ has transformed my short growing season. If you have a heated greenhouse, the world…

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5 Reasons Why Your Flowers Might Not Be Blooming

So, you’ve done some planting. They are all getting sun, and you water them regularly. You even picked up a good fertilizer! But the flowers you expected to see haven’t bloomed! Here are five reasons why your flowers might not be there – all of which you can fix by making some small changes. And…
July 8, 2020
Jesse Singer

Drink Up: Making Nutrient-Rich Compost Tea For The Garden

Enjoying some tea in the garden sounds like a zen way to spend a morning or afternoon; why not offer your plants the same treat? Making compost tea for your plants is an excellent way to boost the growing season!  Compost tea is what it sounds like: compost in liquid form. Make this plant feed…
July 3, 2020
Catherine Sherriffs

How Mushrooms And The Mycelium Network Are Healing The World

Plants have been around for a long time; 700 million years to be exact. But fungi have been on Earth longer, making the first appearance on land 1,300 million years ago. Interestingly enough, the largest living organism in the world today is a honey fungus that measures 2.4 miles (3.8 km) in the Blue Mountains of Oregon. 
June 15, 2020
Rich Hamilton

Veteran Grows Medicine As Alternative To Prescription Drugs

To any person walking by, Steve walks and talks normally. But those people cannot see the scars that he carries – both emotionally and physically – beginning with a 5-inch wound on his back where an IED (Improvised Explosive Device) blew through him while he was serving as a 12B Combat Engineer in 2008. The blast almost ended his life.
June 8, 2020
Liz Perry

Hunkering Down: Check Out These Garden-Themed Movies

Depending on where you live, all this time at home doesn’t mean you can spend time working in the garden. Where I am, the cooler climate means we can’t plant most crops for a while yet. But that doesn’t mean you can’t sit back and enjoy a good movie about a garden. So, here are…
May 1, 2020
Jesse Singer