Greens and roots make a big show in winter gardens
Podcast: Fall Gardening Tips with Gardenerd
This week's podcast shakes things up a bit. We're answering your questions from Ask Gardenerd about soil prep techniques, and soil biology.
Squash, melons, and corn make up the second long bed.
Design: A Two-Yard Partnership Garden
when a client's sister-in-law bought the house next door, they knocked down the fence between them to expand the garden. Now it stretches across both front yards. It's a two-yard garden.
Our pomegranates are turning red. They'll be ready in another week or so.
Wordless Wednesday: Fall Gardening Time
It really feels like fall now, as pumpkins appear on porches, leaves turn colors, and days are notably shorter. There's a chill in the air in the mornings as we…
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YouTube: Fall Planting Guide – What to Plant Now
Our fall planting guide comes in handy for gardeners in warm-winter climates.
Podcast: Compact Plants and Beneficial Insects with Jessica Walliser
This week's podcast guest is Jessica Walliser, horticulturalist, garden columnist and author of several books including Good Bug, Bad Bug; and the award-winning Attracting Beneficial Bugs to the Garden. We chat about her newest book, Gardener’s Guide to Compact Plants: Edibles and Ornamentals for Small-Space Gardening.
Cover with soil and firm around the edges
Propagating Dragon Fruit From Cuttings
Dragon fruit, or pitaya, is a cactus fruit that tastes delicious, is nutritious, and grows well in warm-winter climates (it doesn't like temperatures below 40° F).
Nicole runs Heritage Acres farm and has an online store.
Podcast: Bees and Hens with Nicole Gennetta
Nicole Gennetta runs Heritage Acres, a 2-acre hobby farm in Pueblo West, Colorado. She and her husband tend poultry, bees, a garden and orchard. She's also a medically retired paramedic…
Nature gives us answers if you know where to look.
YouTube: Choose The Right Onions by Day Length
Day Length matters. I see it all the time--nurseries carry Long Day onion seedlings in Short Day onion territory. What's the difference? Our new YouTube video breaks it down. We'll…
Load jars into canner on the rack with 3 quarts water in the bottom.
Pressure Canning Beans – A New Adventure
While most homesteaders are well-versed in "putting up" or canning at the end of the season, pressure canning is a next-level adventure. We recently went down that rabbit hole, complete…
Prune dead and diseased tomato foliage
Ask Gardenerd: Lumpy Tomato Roots, Root Nematodes
A timely question came in to Ask Gardenerd this week from Catherine: "My garden went gangbusters this year but I noticed...the roots of all plants (4 tomatoes and 2 cucumber…