Seasonal

Growing Potatoes in Containers – How to Plant Potatoes from Eyes
|

Growing Potatoes in Containers – How to Plant Potatoes from Eyes

Growing potatoes in containers is something anyone can do! My girls and I do this every year, sometimes more than once a season. Learning how to plant potatoes from eyes on existing ones can cut your grocery bill down using this fun garden trick. If you find sprouted spuds happily vining away in your pantry,…

6 Crop Rotation Tips for Backyard Gardeners
| |

6 Crop Rotation Tips for Backyard Gardeners

Switching around the way you lay out your gardens can benefit your plants in different ways. From moving by vegetable group to trying out companion planting, here are six answers to the question, “What are your most helpful tips for crop rotation in your backyard garden?” Move Each Vegetable Group Every Few Years “Crop rotation…

Sugar Skull Pumpkin | No-Paint White Pumpkin DIY
| |

Sugar Skull Pumpkin | No-Paint White Pumpkin DIY

With a powerful meaning behind this Mexican tradition, the sugar skull designs of “Calavera” deserve special attention and respect. In admiration, we tried to embrace this beautiful idea with a fall craft. You can make a no-paint sugar skull pumpkin using a “Casper pumpkin” (white pumpkin) in your own nod to Day of the Dead…

Best Irrigation for Vacation Mode Watering: Keep Plants Watered While You’re Away
| |

Best Irrigation for Vacation Mode Watering: Keep Plants Watered While You’re Away

Nobody thinks twice about finding a pet sitter when it’s time to go on vacation if the pets can’t come along. So of course, finding a plant sitter is an option for watering your garden while on vacation, too, but it isn’t the only option for the best irrigation! Setting up a hose timer with…

Layered Red White and Blue Miami Vice Drink – Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day
| | |

Layered Red White and Blue Miami Vice Drink – Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day

Okay so this might not totally be gardening related, but hot gardeners definitely need cold drinks! Check out this amazing layered red white and blue drink I made and enjoyed in my garden. It’s got an adult blue raspberry snow cone topped with Pina colada and strawberry daiquiri! Taking the Miami Vice to a whole…