Annual flowers are easy to grow and add variation to your garden space or flower beds. Discover some varieties that are easy to start in the comfort of your home to reduce your bill at the garden center come planting time! I love flowers. I love plants and gardens in general, but I especially love flowers. They add beauty to gardens that your good old vegetables just can't match. The thing is, I think a lot of people just plan on going to their local garden center come spring to look at … [Read more...] about Easy Annual Flowers for Your Garden
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Why You Shouldn’t Use Peat Pots for Seed Starting
Get the truth about all of the peat pots for seed starting advertised in the stores and why you should pass on by. Advertising doesn't mean it works! Are you excited to start some seeds in your home? If so, that's awesome! I fully encourage you go for it. There are so many cost saving benefits to provide good food for your family. But before you go inside your nearest store for supplies, read on my friend. If you don't, you might end up thinking you have a brown thumb instead of a … [Read more...] about Why You Shouldn’t Use Peat Pots for Seed Starting
How to Start Onions from Seed
Growing onions from seed is a great way to get large onions to feed your family. While they require more work than planting onion sets, I've found that they produce better and offer more variety for your garden. For the longest time, I thought that the only way to plant onions was with onion sets. I never thought about any other options, that's just how it was. Then, I started diving into how on earth do these plants reproduce... there has to be a way otherwise we would no longer have … [Read more...] about How to Start Onions from Seed
The Best Container for Your Plant Starts
When I first started my plant starts from seed, I needed some kind of container. I had yet to hear about soil blocking, so that wasn’t an option. And the flimsy containers at my local garden store didn’t seem like a great option either as I want to have a container that could be used multiple years in a row. Then, the simple solo cup was born as a seed starting container. The world of seed starting containers I’ve done my fair share of research on what’s the best way to start seeds. With … [Read more...] about The Best Container for Your Plant Starts