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Grow Peppers as Perennials
Growing peppers organically is second nature to me but I really never thought about trying to keep my sweet Italian peppers alive through the winter. Who knew that peppers are perennials? Jeff W – who...
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What is landscaping? – ArtyPlantz
I love this essay; I love the underlying thought and philosophy it is base on. What is landscaping? – ArtyPlantz. Looking out my kitchen window at my back yard, I have never thought of what’s Back...
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Grow So Easy Organic – Find Free Tools to Start Your Garden
Want to start organic gardening but don’t want to spend a lot of money? You can and it’s pretty darned easy. Unlike traditional gardening, if you go organic, there are a lot of things you will NEVER...
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Margaret Roach Holds Open House
If you live anywhere near Margaret Roach’s New York home, you should sign up for her open house in May. Roach, who has written three books including ” A Way to Garden, I Shall Have Some Peace There and...
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A School Garden & The Green Bronx Machine
Schools should be places where kids just don’t learn to repeat back answers for standardized tests. They should be places where kids grow, are exposed to new and different things and actually want to...
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2015 Organic Garden in the Ground!
I got all of my plants in the ground – wrapping up planting today. All organic seed, all raised by me in my basement and all hand-planted. Granted, the garden doesn’t look like much right now but give...
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Lee Reich’s Annual Plant Sale is ON!
Lee Reich is having a plant sale! If you’ve read my book – Grow So Easy; Organic Gardening for the Rest of Us or enjoy my blog, you know who Lee Reich is. He lives on his “farmden” (farm/garden) in...
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Organic Garden in June in PA
Today I just want to share some of the glorious pictures from my garden which has finally decided to grab on and grow! First the Montmorency cherries! I picked 12.5 quarts and my friend Julie got a...
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climate zones: what can I grow in my yard?
Knowing what you can grow in your neck of the woods is one of the most Healthy soil tells you what it can and cannot support and grow. important bits of information you want to have when it comes to...
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Japanese Beetles Decimating My Plants
It must be July. This is the month when the Japanese Beetles swarm in, over and under all of my plants and make veritable skeletons where once there was beautiful green. Japanese beetles turned this...
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Taking Summer Stock – What Worked? What Didn’t?
I love and hate the end of the summer. I hate that it has ended. I love that I can spend quiet hours cleaning up, organizing and getting ready for the next garden. And I love some of my online...
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My Tips for Sustainable Living
I am loving Nathan Crane’s series on sustainable living. I am learning a lot from the people in this series and gaining new insights and new ideas. I am also realizing that almost every change I have...
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Open Apology to Modern Farmer Magazine
Did you ever make a decision, feel pretty righteous about it then realize you were wrong? Totally wrong?? Could not be more wrong??? Modern Farmer is an amazing magazine! That’s just what I did when...
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Farmer Goes Organic: Shares His Thoughts
This isn’t a small scale farm. This isn’t a new farmer. He is 3rd generation and he owns and works 1400 acres of farmland. His name is Klaas Martens. His story is courtesy of EcoWatch. Why would...
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Metal Garden Beds! Woo Hoo!!
I know we are in a blizzard. I know only die-hard gardeners are thinking about how they are going to lay out their gardens this spring, what seeds they are going to start, what new crops they might...
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How Easy Is Organic Gardening? Very!
Organic gardening is easy to do. I wrote Grow So Easy; Organic Gardening for the Rest of Us for a young woman who wanted to go organic but was sure it was just too hard to do. I also wrote it because I...
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Beekeeping: Getting Started!
The buzz about beekeeping seems to be getting louder or maybe I am just listening a bit better. Margaret Roach’s podcast this week is with Olivia Carroll, author of The Bees in Your Backyard. The...
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Bees Susceptible to Neonics Used on Seeds & Seedlings
A bee visits one of my sunflowers. If you’re an organic gardener, you don’t use neonics which we know are killing bees and damaging the environment. Or so you think. But, if you are not buying organic...
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How To Water Your Garden
Successful organic gardening relies on a series of small but vital choices we, as the gardeners make. Something as simple as where you buy the seed you choose to plant is pivotal in today’s world of...
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Battle Japanese Beetles – Organic Tips
Last year, Japanese beetles arrived early and stayed late! Japanese Beetles win! As an organic gardener, all I could do was try to drown as many as possible but I was outnumbered. They started with my...
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