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.
National Seed Swap Day takes place on the last Saturday of January every year. It’s a fantastic time to plan a seed swap, especially in colder climates like ours. We don’t get to enjoy planting for at least another month or two! Mark your calendar for Saturday, January 28 for National Seed Swap Day 2023….
Both easy to start and low maintenance to grow, kale deserves a space in your garden! Kale germination time is so quick. Growing kale is easy and this leafy green veggie heaps with antioxidants like Vitamin C and beta-carotene. Kale is a biennial plant, meaning it takes two years to go through its full growth…
Whose grandfather or grandmother hasn’t grown tomato plants?! It’s like a gardener’s rite of passage. Wanting to grow wonderful tomatoes like my dad and grandfather, I realize I also need to focus on figuring out what to plant with tomatoes. I leaned on tribal gardening knowledge to help find the best companion plants for tomatoes….
Snapdragons boast beautiful colors and a long-lasting, hardy bloom season. Collecting snapdragon seeds is a lot of fun! The dried seed pods truly resemble tiny human skulls! The antirrhinum skull looks kind of spooky but snapdragons are a truly interesting and unique seed to collect. If you’re planning on harvesting snapdragon seeds, the waiting is…
What if I told you the secret to germinating seeds overnight? (Or at least speeding up the process big time!) Yes – I am here to teach you all about the technique of germinating seeds in a paper towel inside a Ziploc baggie! I discovered this life-changing gardening tip from someone in one of my…
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! Saving pumpkin seeds was a fun activity with the kids, too. I couldn’t be more excited to see what they grow into, although I’m…
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…
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 flowers delightfully blooms with mystery after the day fades away. Consider designing your own with beautiful night-blooming moon garden flowers. Favorite 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…