Over the last couple days we've been talking about how to create a specialized culinary garden or potager. You can see the first two entries in this series here: Picking the Perfect Spot for Your Potager and Picking the Perfect Plants for Your …
Picking Plants for Your Potager
Yesterday, we talked about why you might want to create a secondary (or primary, if need be) culinary garden known as a potager. Today, let's take a closer look at how to choose the right plants for this special garden. One of the main benefits …
Picking the Perfect Spot for Your Kitchen Garden
When we moved into our house, choosing the ideal spot for the main vegetable garden was pretty easy - mainly because so much of our available land had to be devoted to the horses. Still, it ended up in a nice sunny spot with close proximity to the …
Tips for Succession Planting Success
Yesterday, we talked a little bit about designing a new vegetable garden and using succession planting principles to maximize your results. The garden image I shared in that article was from this past weekend (April 2014). To better illustrate …
Vegetable Succession Planting: Getting Started
Finally, a warm and sunny weekend here in NE Ohio! I'm heading outside in a minute to get back to work stripping horse stalls and working in the garden. We made tons of progress yesterday - and the vegetable garden design I've been carrying …
Fun and Creative Garden Toad House Ideas
Did you know there are at least 10,000 GREAT reasons to invite toads into your yard and garden this summer? That's right! According to the USDA, just one adult toad will eat 10,000 pesky insects in a single summer. Not only that, these efficient …
4 Tips for Enhancing Your Outdoor Living Space
Our lives have been all about home renovations over the last year or so. Having designed and built two houses from the ground up before venturing into this project… I can say first hand that remodeling an existing home (especially one as trashed as …
Finding Room to Grow More Fruits & Veggies
Short on space for your vegetable garden? No problem! Today we'll talk about an easy way to grow more fruits, vegetables and herbs - even if you don't think you have the room for it. The only requirement is that you have access to some outdoor …
Choosing the Best Plants for Your Garden
Have you ever bought a really cool plant on impulse - only to find there is nowhere in your garden that really suits it? Guilty as charged here. I'm a bit of a plant collector myself and can usually "find" a good location for whatever I drag …