Setting Up Your Square Foot Beds The whole idea behind Square Foot Gardening (SFG) is to grow more in less space. This saves you time, money, and resources while producing an abundance of produce! The traditional square foot gardening bed is a 4’x4′ square, but you can apply this technique to any raised garden beds. I have …
Garden Weather & What We Planted Today Today, we hit a high around 75° – for March 8, in eastern Pennsylvania, that is incredible! So the warm weather inspired me to get in the gardens, and get some things planted. You read that right, I have things planted in my garden! Pansies and violas love …
While I sit here writing, the snow is falling and there is a gentle breeze. Its actually quite beautiful. Then as most gardeners do, I looked at the long range forecast so I know what the weather will be like outside for chores over the next week. Snow today (Friday), temps in the low 70s …
As you can tell from the above photo, February where I live means snow as it is still the middle of winter. Although Mother Nature has been a bit weird lately, it was 62°F on Wednesday, and now on Friday its snowing again, this is rather typical for Eastern PA – zone 7A. But, just …
If you garden, you know the importance of pollinators. Pollinators are the bees, bugs, butterflies, and birds that help to pollinate flowers. Without pollinators we wouldn’t have any fruits nor most vegetables (things like eggplant, tomatoes, and peppers are all botanically fruits because they form from a flower). Each year, as we have added to …
