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.
When growing vertically in the garden, it really pays off to find planting partners that work well with your crops. For example, pole bean companion plants help you fill out the space surrounding and underneath your bean teepee! We used to grow bush beans as our only backyard garden crop for YEARS. I had green…
Have you ever found surprise tomato plants in the garden? We find volunteer tomatoes all the time! I’ve found cherry tomato plants, Romas, and San Marzano tomato volunteers in the garden. One time, I even found a tomato sprout growing from a seed on my counter! That tiny tomato seed happened to get caught up…
Cucumbers are wonderful to grow in the garden. Discover how to save cucumber seeds easily from your own overripe garden cucumbers. When cucumbers turn orange or dark yellow, it’s a sign they have mature, viable seeds inside for saving. You can harvest cucumber seeds in a matter of minutes, with a simple process and very…
Learning how to save nasturtium seeds helps to ensure a viable collection of seeds for future seasons. Follow a few nasturtium drying and storage tips to easily grow this garden flower and culinary herb year after year. If you haven’t collected your seeds yet, head over to my post on Harvesting Nasturtium Seeds to get…
The garden’s always full of surprises! Volunteer plants, those that you didn’t plant yourself, are one of the best garden surprises. It’s so exciting to find a new plant growing when and where you least expect it. Volunteers randomly show up in the garden without warning. They may pop up in your flower bed or…
Growing your own watermelons can be so rewarding in the backyard garden, especially when you bite into that first piece of homegrown watermelon! Learning how to save watermelon seeds ensures you can keep growing this favorite summer fruit year after year from your own seed stock. Saving watermelon seeds is super easy since you don’t…
Ah, the intoxicating scent of lavender! I love it in all kinds of beauty and health products, and now I’m trying to grow lavender in the garden. I started looking for lavender companion plants to give my lavender garden the best chance of success. Perhaps I’m off base, but I swear I’ve heard through the…
Four o’clock flowers are so named due to their shyness in direct, bright sunlight. When growing four o’clocks, you will notice their tendency to close their blooms during the hottest part of the day and open their flowers after the sun heads for the horizon. Therefore, the name four o’clocks is pretty accurate… Although, my…
For the first time, this year we planted calendula in the garden. We picked a flower here or there but mostly enjoyed the sunny yellow blooms amid our strawberry plants. Finding ripe calendula seeds ready to harvest recently was an exciting moment! Harvesting calendula seeds in the garden is an easy activity for gardeners of…
Gardening season is starting to wind down as the seasons are changing. Knowing what to plant in October in your zone can help extend your growing season. Here in Pennsylvania Zone 6b, we can still plant a few things for a winter harvest, spring bloom time, or even a mid-summer harvest! Keep your gardening vibes…