If you’re getting started with gardening because you want to grow your own food, lettuce is a great option! Gardening is all about building your confidence as you go, and…

One of my favorite perennials to grow in the garden is sage. I love the low-growing, mounding types that can spread slowly and fill in areas between other plants. These…

Raspberries are one of my favorite fruits, and they can be pretty pricey to buy. Luckily they are some of the easiest fruits to grow! Unlike blueberries, the plants don’t…

Today we’re talking all about how to grow potatoes! Potatoes aren’t the most expensive thing to buy at the store, but they are cost-effective and can produce high yields. A…

Today we’re talking about how to propagate basil from stem cuttings. It’s a super easy thing to do if you want to enjoy fresh basil for your whole growing season….

Today we’re talking through planting our mini orchard in our backyard. One of the things I always hear from people who are looking to expand their gardens and increase their…

Arugula is one of those plants that is so easy to save seeds from in the spring. Not only because one plant produces a ton of seed pods, but because…

In our back garden update this year, I wrote about converting a 15×15 patch of grass to growing space, primarily to grow asparagus. But we had a third row that…

Hi all! Today we’re talking trellising tomatoes. There are loads of ways to trellis tomatoes. They all have pros and cons, in my opinion. This post covers the two ways…

One of the more interesting things in my kitchen’s tea cabinet is a big bag of deep red dried up hibiscus calyxes. I love using them for tea. It has…