This is a shame, since it’s my favorite variety! With crinkly green leaves, it adds beauty to the garden, and a unique texture in the kitchen. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Let’s dig into the details! What Is Savoy Cabbage? Savoy cabbage, like all other cabbage varieties is a specific cultivar of Brassica oleracea....
Does that seem like a dumb question? I mean, you just reach out and grab it off the tree, don’t you? Actually, there are a few considerations to take into account before you reach out for that lovely autumn fruit. Particularly if you’re hoping for a crop of crisp, tasty apples, rather than ones that are mouth numbingly tart – or even mealy and tasteless. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products....
We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Kale is an easy vegetable to grow and harvest. However, you still have to know the right time and method to harvest. The timing and methods you use depend on if you are growing plants for baby greens or mature leaves. Continue reading to learn how to get the most from this nutritious green....
We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Lucky for me, anthuriums, more colorfully known as flamingo plants, aren’t prone to many pest problems. But like all plants, they do occasionally attract a few hungry insects. If these insects strike, you’ll be prepared to identify and deal with them with the information we’ve compiled for you below....
In Victorian times, renowned physician Nathanial Bagshaw Ward was pursuing a passion for botany and conducting an experiment with moths, when he discovered that he could cultivate rare ferns inside a bottle. This led him to develop a glass vessel for nurturing imported plant specimens. The “Wardian case” is the predecessor of the terrarium. Traditionally made of curved glass with a tight-fitting lid, a terrarium has a base of gravel, charcoal, moss, and soil, and supports a miniature garden of moisture-loving plants....
Homegrown carrots are crisper, fresher, and come in a much wider variety of flavors, colors, and shapes than what you can buy in the average supermarket. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Ready to learn how to grow carrots? All right, let’s go! Cultivation and History Close your eyes for just a moment and think of a carrot....
This variety of summer squash has a few non-negotiable requirements, sure. But if you meet its soil fertility, sun, and water demands, it will usually reward you with an abundance of produce in a short time, with little effort from you. The main drawback – if you can call it a drawback – is that these overachievers may exhaust you with the need to keep up with their output. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products....
And I love these tasty flavor bombs, so it’s a battle between the taste buds of the present and future. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. That’s where the bulbils come in. Leave a few scapes alone and you’ll end up with ten to 100 tiny aerial cloves from each one to plant in your garden in the fall....
Described botanically as Crassula ovata, this species is also known as the money plant. Now, money doesn’t grow on trees, but if money did grow on C. ovata, you’d be hitting the jackpot by reading this article. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Enough talk, time is… more money plants! Let’s get into how to propagate these beauties....
Provided you have a generous neighbor, you can take a small division from their plant and have your own to show off in no time. Or perhaps you’re yearning to propagate a peony from seed. It’s a time-consuming process, but an incredibly satisfying one. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. My neighbor has populated an entire garden with peonies that she propagated from divisions taken from people across the city – with permission, of course....
It’s difficult to find someone who hasn’t heard of echinacea. But it’s pretty uncommon to find someone who knows the medicinal value of juniper. That’s a shame because these ubiquitous shrubs grow all across the Northern Hemisphere, so you can likely forage them in your own backyard. Many plants in the Juniperus genus have many uses, both topical and internal, not to mention their value as ornamentals and native plant species....
The fungus that causes scab, Cladosporium carpophilum, is responsible for scab on peaches, apricots, nectarines, and plums. Scab is usually much more of a problem for home gardeners than in commercial orchards. This is because the trees are typically sprayed with fungicides in commercial operations, and they eliminate the scab before it can get a foothold. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission....
Annuals can be defined broadly as a type of plant that completes its full life cycle in one year or one growing season. These plants go through the different stages from being a seed to growing roots, stems and leaves, then flowering, then returning to a seed in one year. The most popular varieties are marigolds, petunias, impatiens, and zinnias. In the Southern regions in the United States, planting annuals can be rewarding, and one can reap the benefits of good harvests of flowers....
Flowers play a key role in our ecosystem, they can be edible, and they are perfect for attracting beneficial insects and other small helpful animals. This is especially true in the case of pollinators. The functioning of our ecosystem rests on the tiny backs of these pollinators – a big burden for their little shoulders to bear! In fact, we rely on pollinators to help produce as much as one-third of our food....
On the contrary, us gardeners generally spend a lot of time pruning, deadheading, spraying, and otherwise coddling our shrubs. If you’re anything like me, you spend more time checking on, pampering, and enjoying your roses than any other species in the garden. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. There are many reasons that roses might appear misshapen, discolored, or otherwise deformed....
That boy went on to become one of the most famous breeders of hardy roses that the world has ever known. Oh, and by the way, this man was allergic to his beloved shrubs and had to routinely take shots to be able to work with the flowers that would make him (somewhat) famous. Did you guess that this respected breeder is David Austin? Or maybe that guy who invented Knock Out roses?...
Cultivating medicinal plants is a great way to connect with nature, offering a regenerative approach to the practice of herbalism. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. This cheerful aromatic herb is a vigorous grower that provides plentiful flower harvests from spring into fall. The great thing about calendula is that the more you pinch off the flowers, the more they will produce, blooming continuously until season’s end!...
I know. It seems like you just go to the store, check out the tag, and pick the one that looks best. You can do it that way, but there’s a better method that will result in less work for you down the road, and happier shrubs in your garden. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission....
I soon learned that peonies (Paeonia spp.) are a big deal here in Alaska. Lots of Alaskan gardeners grow these cold-hardy blooms, which thrive in USDA Hardiness Zones 3-8. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Depending on the cultivar, petals can be single, double, or semi-double. You can find out more about how to grow these lovely flowers and more about the different varieties in our growing guide....
But for something a little different, a pretty option to consider is Muscari, or grape hyacinth. We link to vendors to help you find relevant products. If you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Beloved for their explosion of color in the early spring garden, you don’t have to wait for plants to emerge from dormancy outdoors to enjoy their striking blooms – these easy-care bulbs respond well to any forcing method for indoor enjoyment even at the coldest times of year....
