YouTube: Transplanting Sprouted Seedlings with Success
Our latest YouTube video is about transplanting sprouted seedlings safely from one place to another.
A volunteer tomato sprouted from under our compost storage tub.
Ask Gardenerd: Volunteers and Compost Volunteers
A question from Debra came into Ask Gardenerd this week about compost volunteers. To keep or not to keep? We answer that question.
YouTube: Volunteers – The Benefit of Free Plants Forever
Volunteers are the topic of our latest YouTube video. What are volunteers and why do you want them? Simply put, a volunteer is something that pops up in your garden that you didn't deliberately plant.
A volunteer tomato sprouted from under our compost storage tub.
Ask Gardenerd: How to Get More Volunteer Tomatoes
I do believe my favorite question to date just came in to Ask Gardenerd from Jeff Bremer: "Hi Christy, How do I encourage volunteers? Over the years in my tomato garden, a few volunteers would appear each season. Last year, in hopes of getting a lot of volunteers (for this year) whenever a tomato was damaged or half-eaten by some critter, I buried it in the soil. However, this year, not one volunteer arose. Is there anything I can do…
A volunteer tomato sprouted from under our compost storage tub.
Volunteers: Nature’s Helpers
This time of year, we have a lot of sprouts popping up in odd places. We didn't plant them, they are "volunteers." Volunteers are a godsend in filling in spaces around the yard with spring flowers, extra lettuces, and even the best tomatoes you'll ever grow. We call them "Nature's slap in the face" because they do better than most of the plants we've cultivated on purpose. They don't need much help from us, and so they tend to be…