Planting Fun with Kids
Gardening.
Dirt Therapy.
Solace from all the stress of the world around us…
Gardening offers so many mental and physical health benefits! We hope you enjoy our gardening blog and posts related to our adventures in the garden.
My kids could eat their weight in strawberries! So much so, that we tried planting strawberry seeds in pots for the first time this year. Usually we just buy the starter strawberry plants from Lowes. Our berries this year did better than all the other years combined! Planting strawberries from fruit we enjoyed eating worked […]
In October, I bought 14 different kinds of pumpkins and gourds to decorate our front step. Flash forward a month and I am happily drying pumpkin seeds for planting next spring! I couldn’t be more excited to see what they grow into, although I’m definitely wishing we had more ground for planting. Halloween rolls around […]
Awesome Stocking Stuffers for Gardeners! If your wife, husband, child, or someone you love enjoys gardening, then this list is for you! We’ve found so many stocking stuffers for gardeners that I almost want to fill my own stocking this year! 🙂 Even if you think that special someone has it all, you might be […]
So often we’re focused on making it through the day. Naturally, gardens based on daytime viewing make sense. However, it can be a truly therapeutic experience to create a special moon garden—a sort of secret garden—that is only for you, your family, and your closest friends to enjoy. A lovely nighttime patch of moon garden […]
After seeing how excited my girls got during our seed swaps this year, we decided to make a few unboxing videos for our gardening adventures. It’s pretty exciting to see what you get in a mystery pack of seeds in the mail! Seed mail *IS* the best mail, after all! So, here’s our first attempt […]
Need seeds, anyone?! Maybe it was the pandemic, or maybe it was a family emergency that occurred at its peak. Maybe it was both. I’m not sure which, but somehow this year I became ever more in love with gardening. And no matter how many seeds I buy or swap, I still NEED SEEDS. It’s […]
Growing basil is something every gardener should experience. In the herb world, basil’s reputation precedes itself. It’s touted as an herb that’s easy to grow and generally very happy in the garden. Moreover, this fine culinary companion boasts an aroma that awakens the garden with visions of pizza and other Italian delights. I can’t help […]
During our gardening adventures this summer, we found some new garden friends! Our carrot patch attracted a black swallowtail butterfly who laid her eggs on the carrot greens. We noticed the swallowtail caterpillars once they were fairly large and beautifully colored with bright green and black bands. Our first caterpillar friend hatched into a beautiful […]
This year seems as though many things are against us, even with gardening! We had a late freeze on Mother’s Day weekend, when historically we are usually planting outside. We’ve finally got some warmer weather, and what happens? When heading out to the deck today to water our plants, we found seedlings dug up every […]
This is my first blog. We are growing a lot of seeds. So far we planned: green beans tomatoes 🍅 popcorn 🍿 Sunflowers 🌻 Lettuce 🥬 Strawberry 🍓 Lima beans peas carrots 🥕 pumpkins 🎃 beets Honeydew 🍈 cantaloupe 🍈 Radishes Broccoli 🥦 cauliflowers cabbage Squash Zucchini watermelons 🍉 zinnias […]
