Vegetable Gardening & Natural Family Living
Growing Dahlias is easy but they cannot tolerate frosts Dahlias are a tropical plant with gorgeous flowers, but you have to grow them during the warmer months. For our zone 5b, planting dahlias in our flower garden means some extra care. Dahlias need to grow and bloom during the frost-free window. If you don’t know your…
Chickweed control is important for this invasive plant Chickweed has beautiful tiny flowers that look like stars, thus the Latin name ‘Stellaria media’. These flowers also produce many tiny seeds that happily self-sow everywhere. Chickweed is a ground cover which means it can spreads in large masses quickly. Chickweed is a ground cover and can…
A hoophouse can add weeks (or months) of growing & harvesting If you want to protect seedlings in the spring, extend your harvesting into the fall or keep rain off of transplants in the spring, then a good hoop house is your answer. Some will even handle some snow. I no longer garden without season…
