Onions in Your Garden

There is no doubt that onions add flavor to any dish it is used in. Whether it is soups, stews, salads or sandwiches, onions spice up the meal. Not only that, if you plant them in your garden the smell can repel certain pests that want to attack your garden veggies. I grow onions inContinue reading “Onions in Your Garden”

Grow Potatoes At Home

I find it disappointing when I go to the grocery store to buy a bag of potatoes and get them home only to find several of them are rotten. Somehow the rotten ones were not close to the area of the bag that you can see through and the smell was not obvious from theContinue reading “Grow Potatoes At Home”

Time to Plant Tomatoes!

One of the first vegetables I start for the season is tomatoes. My favorites are the large beefsteak tomatoes that are indeterminate. They grow to approximately seven feet long and produce tomatoes all Summer until the frost comes in the Fall. They die when the weather gets too cold. By then, have reaped a fewContinue reading “Time to Plant Tomatoes!”

It’s Spring! Are You Ready to Start Gardening?

The first day of Spring for 2023 was March 20th. Are you excited to get out into the yard and prep for new plant growth? Depending on where you are, you may be more than ready for Spring temperatures to show up. I am in planting Zone 6a. My last frost date this year isContinue reading “It’s Spring! Are You Ready to Start Gardening?”