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.
Successfully growing nasturtium in vegetable garden beds and beyond brought us so much joy! The lovely pops of color in coral and cherry rose are delightful to see alongside our tomatoes and in our cucumber bed. Last year I couldn’t get the nasturtium seedlings to take off in our container garden. This year, I’m pulling…
Learn how to save tomato seeds so you can get seeds for next season’s crop for free. Saving tomato seeds is quick, easy, and just a little messy, but totally worth it! Whether you save tomato seeds from your own garden or your favorite local tomatoes, you can successfully save the seeds with my super…
Have you suddenly found your once-healthy tomatoes black on bottom? This is generally a surefire sign of blossom-end rot. The black spots on bottom of tomatoes may appear almost without warning. It can happen with your first crop of tomatoes or anytime throughout the season. Tomato rot is disappointing to see for sure, but there…
Where we live, the garden is just about done come fall. By October, we’ve squeezed as much gardening out of the fall as we’re likely to get. Now i’s time to put the garden to bed. Sometimes the bugs and garden pests have decimated crops and other times second waves of plantings are still going…
Acid loving plants are all around us. From fruit to flowers, shrubs to trees, lots of garden and landscape favorites thrive in acidic soil. Plants that like acidic soil tend to do well with acid fertilizers and other soil additives that help to bring down the pH to the acidic range. I’ve put together this…
Harvesting zinnia seeds is a must if you want to keep your beautiful blooms going year after year! Learn how to harvest zinnia seeds so you can save, share, and grow incredible zinnia flowers all over again. For me, the best part of saving zinnia seeds from the flowers we grow ourselves is the unknown…
Plants that don’t get enough water may eventually be facing certain death. Learn how to rescue underwatered plants as soon as you notice a watering problem. Both underwatering and overwatering plants can cause issues and risk the health of your plants. Catching the watering problem early can help you reverse it to improve the health…
Learn how to care for overwatered plants so you can save your plants before it’s too late. Sometimes we rescue plants from garden centers and other times they’re gifted or already ours. Whatever the case, overwatering is a real concern for the health of the plants and its roots. Sometimes it is possible to fix…
It’s crazy how quickly the summertime flies by every year. Now that things are winding down, we’re looking for things to plant in August in Pennsylvania Zone 6b where we live. If you are also looking for plants to grow in August, you’ve come to the right place. I am searching high and low for…
My pickling cucumbers are flowering and getting pollinated like mad! It’s truly amazing. Except for the cucumber leaves turning yellow, which I can’t discern for the life of me. Why is this happening? I am loving my garden this year and don’t want to sacrifice any of those adorable and delicious pickling cucumbers. I’m hot…