Posts by: JD
Soil and Tomatoes
Kacper is just singing our song! Got this from him in the mail today… “You must see…
Early Tomatoes
For those of you getting ready to get a start on tomatoes, there is a great website,…
January Garden Calendar
While mid to late spring is the busiest time of the year for most gardeners, there are…
Winter Blues Have Set In
Okay, it is official. I am tired of all the cold ‘yard work’. The greenhouse is growing…
Garden Calendar Funnies
Okay, one of the largest sections of GardenSimply is the Garden Calendar. I have looked at it…
Green House Gardening Tips and Tricks
Gardening enthusiasts in the more interesting temperate climates and any place where there are four seasons are…
Time To Feed The Fungi
Considered as one of the most strenuous annual chores when owning a home, dead leaves blowing in…
Fall Cabbage Worms
Cabbage butterflies herald the spring, but their caterpillars, hatching from hundreds of eggs laid during a single…
How to Grow a Chemical-Free Vegetable Garden
Pests are notorious for causing a loss of plants every year, however, that loss can be minimized with good pest control practices. If you ensure that your plants have been properly watered, fertilized and cultivated, you will also work toward growing plants that are more pest resistant than plants that are neglected or have received poor care.
Winter Vegetables
We often see different vegetables at Thanksgiving dinners like the root vegetables rutabagas and parsnips and Brussels…
How to Roast Pumpkin Seeds
Whether you carve your pumpkin for a Halloween Jack O’Lantern or plan to us it for baking,…
Why Garden Organically?
As recent as 25 years ago, the idea of organic gardening was considered quite a radical concept. How in the world were gardeners expected to control the weeds, the bugs, and the animals that could threaten a thriving garden without the use of man-made chemicals? When you think about it, organic gardening is a really simply theory. For years, people have been growing things without the use of chemicals. The early settlers of our country didn’t have Miracle-Gro or Sevin Dust and they made out just fine.