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How to Revive Heat-Stressed Vegetable Plants
Most gardeners have experienced it. You walk out to the garden after several days of scorching heat, expecting to see your vegetables thriving in the sun. Instead, your tomatoes are drooping, peppers...
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What No One Tells You Before Growing Summer Drummer Alliums
Summer Drummer alliums look like something out of a fairytale garden, but there is a reason not every gardener ends up growing them successfully or sticking with them long-term. While they are not...
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12 Purple Flowers to Plant for Royal Purple Color
Asking someone their favorite color seems like a grade-school pursuit, idle and childish. Yet, it’s one of those subtle tells that reveal an individual’s psychology. Those who favor purple are often...
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How to Keep Cucumbers Producing All Summer
Growing cucumbers is a gratifying experience. One day, you notice just a few yellow flowers. A few days later, cucumbers start appearing out of nowhere. Before long, you're harvesting enough for...
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Signs Your Raised Bed Soil Needs More Compost
One of the biggest misconceptions about raised bed gardening is that you only need to fill the bed once. With my first raised beds, I filled them with a good soil mix, planted tomatoes, peppers, and...
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Plants that Attract Dragonflies to the Garden
Summer is here, and the bloodsuckers are out in full force. If you’re the romantic sort, you might conjure notions of blooming crepe myrtles and cypress trees under the sweltering sun, set against the...
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5 Garden Hacks for July
For gardeners, the month of July is all about paying attention. Tomatoes are finally ripening, cucumbers seem to appear overnight, and your beans are climbing higher by the day. July often brings...
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What to Plant in a Raised Garden Bed: Best Vegetables, Flowers, and Herbs
Imagine stepping outside on a warm morning, basket in hand, gathering ripe tomatoes still warm from the sun, a fistful of basil that perfumes the air the moment you pinch a leaf, and zinnias bright...
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10 Colorful Veggies that Go Well with Flowers
To many gardeners, vegetable patches and flowers are like fire and water, living in strict segregation from each other. Vegetables were the utilitarian workers that lived to serve, ultimately ending up...
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5 Common Mistakes People Make When Freezing Garden Fruit
Freezing garden fruit is easy, at least when you follow a few golden rules. Done right, you get fruit that’s as convenient as supermarket frozen packs: easy to portion, easy to store, and ready to use...
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Measures to Deal with Soil Hardening & Compaction
After some years of gardening, I have come to realize how much healthy vegetables depend on healthy soil. One summer, I noticed my tomatoes weren't growing as quickly as usual. The leaves looked...
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How Raised Beds and Greenhouses Help with Drought
For the modern gardener, dealing with drought has shifted from an occasional summertime headache to a perpetual state of emergency. As scorching heat waves besiege much of the US and Europe,...
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Why Your Plants Stop Setting Fruit in Late July
I hear the same question every summer: "My tomato plant is big...so why am I barely getting any tomatoes?" Usually, the plant is healthy. The leaves are lush and green, and the stems keep growing. But...
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How to Freeze and Dry Your Herbs
There's a point every summer when my herb garden seems to grow faster than I can manage it. One week, I'm snipping a few sprigs of basil for the kitchen. By the next, my basil has become a leafy...
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3 Ways to Store Your Summer Harvest
If you have been gardening for a while, you’ve probably experienced this. After weeks of watering, weeding, and watching plants grow, all your plants seem to ripen at once. Tomatoes are piling up,...
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The Ultimate Backyard World Cup Watch Party Garden Checklist
The FIFA World Cup is the biggest soccer event in the world, and since it only happens every four years, it deserves a more elaborate reception than just a screen in the living room. This blog walks...
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How to Fix and Prevent Blossom End Rot on Tomatoes
Few things are more disappointing than spotting a large, beautiful tomato, and then noticing a dark, sunken patch developing on the bottom. The first time I encountered blossom end rot, I assumed my...
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How Do Self-Watering Planters Work? A Complete Guide
You fill the reservoir once, walk away, and somehow your basil stays lush for two weeks while you are on vacation. It feels like a small miracle the first time it happens. Self-watering planters have...
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Summer Gardening Tips: Beat the Heat & Drought in July
By the time July rolls around, the excitement of spring planting has given way to one of the biggest challenges of the gardening season: keeping everything alive through the heat. Tomatoes are loaded...
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The Stormy Weather Checklist for Your Garden
Summer is the season when gardens look amazing and full of life, but are also at their most vulnerable. Especially when the weather forecast changes. Thunderstorms might move through the area, bringing...
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