Spring gardening season is just about here! Have you seen the latest Aldi Gardenline selection? The Aldi garden deals are about to drop, and may even be sold out by the time you read this post. (Hopefully not, though!) With March and April on the way, be sure to keep Aldi’s and LIDL’s garden offerings…
Luckily other gardeners often watch out for one another – my neighbor just asked me about the impending cold weather and how to protect plants from frost. As I prepare my own gardens, I am happy to share my tips on DIY frost protection for plants, both annuals and perennials. Every time the big frost…
Prolific in bloom, cosmos can be a fantastic flowerbed stunner. Brilliant in color and magnets for pollinators, what’s not to love?! But, are cosmos perennials or annuals? We’ve started growing cosmos back in our 2020 garden. After quite a few amazing seed swaps, I ended up with sensation cosmos and seashell cosmos. At the time,…
When growing seedlings indoors and later transplanting them, it’s so helpful to have large supply of garden tags on hand. You can quickly and easily make your own DIY plant tags for seedlings through the full lifecycle of your plants. Why do I need to use garden tags for plants? Garden tags make it easy…
Do you ever find cucumber leaves turning yellow and wonder what’s going on? I recently discovered the culprit is cucumber beetles. And, by the time you see these nasty cucumber bugs and figure it out, it’s almost always too late. (Super sorry you had to find out this way – but join the crusade to…
Pretty much every year, we find a groundhog in my yard. It’s pretty irritating, actually, to deal with this groundhog eating garden plants when you’re just trying to grow something, for crying out loud. I need to figure out how to get rid of groundhogs stat. The big ole groundhog garden pest is one of…
As impatient as a gardener in the wintertime, because I am, I started looking around for free seed catalogs to help pass the time until spring. I’ve compiled this list of seed and plant catalog companies to keep track of those we can request for free. Start now signing up for annual seed catalogs and…
All locations aren’t suitable for gardening in winter or all year long, for that matter, unfortunately. Here in PA Zone 6b, our outdoor gardening season ranges from around Mother’s Day weekend to mid-to-late October. Luckily, winter gardening is still possible with the right ideas and equipment! Even despite the cold, some gardening projects make perfect…
Few things are as frustrating as audacious animals eating your garden! Believe me, I know. I’ve tried to round up a list of deer resistant annuals (flowers, mostly) that you can try in the garden, but keep in mind, a hungry deer is probably not going to turn its nose up at your garden, though….
Zinnias are one of our very favorite flowers to grow! I also enjoy taking pictures of zinnias to keep track of all the gorgeous flowers we’ve grown. Flower photography is a delightful hobby to enjoy alongside gardening, so I’m doubly happy when I get to dabble in both! Some zinnia flowers grew completely by surprise…